People Budding Painter Hunter Biden Has Reportedly Signed With a New York Gallery and Will Have His First Solo Show Next Year Georges Bergès Gallery has supposedly inked a deal with the president-elect’s son. By Brian Boucher, Dec 16, 2020
Art World The Surrealist Artist Leonora Carrington Created a Little-Known Suite of Tarot Card Paintings—and Now You Can Own a Facsimile Set A curator stumbled upon the works while visiting a collector in Mexico City. By Brian Boucher, Dec 15, 2020
On View How a Palestinian Artist Duo’s Decade-Long Project About Mourning and Memory Was Transformed by the Pandemic Commissioned by Dia and MoMA, artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme began by looking at Middle Eastern expressions of grief and resistance. By Brian Boucher, Dec 14, 2020
Art World These Three Tech Companies Are Locked in a Bitter Battle to Capture Your Attention With the World’s Best Immersive Van Gogh Experience In New York, San Francisco, and Indianapolis, companies are warring with Van Gogh-inspired light installations. By Brian Boucher, Dec 14, 2020
Art World After Destroying Peoria’s Internet-Famous Cookie Monster Mural, the Landlord Will Commission a ‘More Appropriate’ One to Replace It The site has become a place of pilgrimage for fans of the original. By Brian Boucher, Dec 11, 2020
Art World An International Cultural Organization Says Mexico’s Museum Leaders Are Afraid to Speak the Truth About Their Dire Financial Straits Some museums’ budgets have been cut by more than 75 percent, the group says. By Brian Boucher, Dec 11, 2020
Art World It’s a New Banksy! A Mural of a Woman Sneezing Has Appeared on the Side of a House in Bristol The work is the anonymous street artist's latest health-related message. By Brian Boucher, Dec 10, 2020
Art World Billionaire Collector Ronald Lauder Is Giving the Met More than 90 Rare Pieces of Arms and Armor in One of the Largest Donations of Its Kind The cosmetics magnate and Met mega-patron amassed his own collection with key help from an early curator in the department. By Brian Boucher, Dec 9, 2020
Art World Impersonating a Property Owner, a Man Paid an Artist to Paint a Cookie Monster Mural in Peoria. The Town—and the Internet—Have Questions The case of the mystery mural commission has gone viral. By Brian Boucher, Dec 8, 2020
Science & Tech This Artist Wanted to Teach Aliens About Life on Earth. So, She Teamed Up With NASA Scientists to Send an Artwork Into Outer Space Julia Christensen partnered with scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By Brian Boucher, Dec 8, 2020
Politics After Protesting for Artistic Freedom, Cuban Authorities Detained Artist Tania Bruguera and Put Her Under House Arrest “We want political freedom: respect for those who think differently," the artist says. "Basic stuff!” By Brian Boucher, Dec 7, 2020
Art World It’s a Christmas Miracle! An Archaeologist May Have Just Found Jesus’s Childhood Home in Nazareth A group of nuns stumbled upon the site in the 1880s without knowing what they may have found. By Brian Boucher, Dec 7, 2020
Art World A Retired Nurse Loved Visiting This German Museum So Much That She Bequeathed Her Home to It—Much to the Institution’s Surprise The Folkwang Museum in Essen had no idea Jutta Franke's donation was coming. By Brian Boucher, Dec 4, 2020
Art World Yet Another Copycat Monolith Has Appeared, This Time in California. No, Wait—It’s Already Gone Judging by video on a local news site, neither aliens nor John McCracken would be proud of this shoddy monolith. By Brian Boucher, Dec 3, 2020
Art World More Photos Have Emerged from the Massive Rock Art Discovery in the Amazon, and They’re Amazing—See Them Here Who knew that ancient Amazonians bungee jumped? Well, now you do! By Brian Boucher, Dec 3, 2020
