On View Damien Hirst Takes Over France’s Château La Coste The YBA artist is the subject of a new show at Château La Coste. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Mar 4, 2024
Museums & Institutions Pro-Palestine Protest Shuts Down Justin Trudeau Reception at Toronto Museum The cancelled event was planned in honor of Italy's right-wing prime minster Giorgia Meloni. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Mar 4, 2024
Museums & Institutions Curator Katy Hessel’s Museum Audio Guides Spotlight Overlooked Women Artists These new guides will roll out in museums in the U.S. and U.K. throughout Women's History Month. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Mar 1, 2024
Museums & Institutions Outrage as Paris Jacks Up Museum Ticket Prices Ahead of the Summer Olympics To raise ticket prices "such an astronomical amount is shameful," said a Sorbonne professor. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 29, 2024
Art & Exhibitions Pussy Riot Artist Presents New Exhibition on Russia, Prison, and Political Rage The punk anti-Putin collective creator Nadya Tolokonnikova will have her first museum show at Austria's OK Linz. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 28, 2024
Museums & Institutions A Scottish Museum Is Using A.I. to Bring Ancient Faces to Life An interactive experience will allow visitors to follow along with the reconstruction process. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 28, 2024
On View A New Survey of Black Portraiture Rewrites the Art Historical Canon The survey spotlights celebrated artists like Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, and Michael Armitage. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 27, 2024
Art World Artists and Curators Call for Israel to be Excluded from the Venice Biennale An open letter notes that apartheid South Africa was banned from participating between 1968 and 1993. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 26, 2024
Art & Exhibitions Why Portraitist John Singer Sargent Cared So Much About Clothes Five exceptional portraits at Tate Britain's "Sargent and Fashion" reveal the painter's eye for dress. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 23, 2024
Museums & Institutions The West Bank’s Palestinian Museum Reopens After Four Months Three concurrent shows put the spotlight on historical and contemporary Gazan artists. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 22, 2024
Law & Politics Belgium Returns Illegally Exported Celtic Bracelets to Romania The trio of treasures were put up for auction in Monaco but their dodgy provenance raised suspicions. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 21, 2024
Art & Tech Should Artists Be Worried About the A.I. Video Generator Sora? "You should fear the person who uses these tools," warned one filmmaker at the Berlinale. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 21, 2024
On View A Long Lost Brancusi Goes on View in Bucharest The bust depicts a restaurant waiter that the artist met while working as a dishwasher shortly after moving to Paris. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 20, 2024
Museums & Institutions A Fashion Show in Front of the Parthenon Marbles Stirs Controversy The uproar has been compared to a Dior fashion shoot at the Acropolis that was sanctioned by Greece for $750,000 in 2021. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 19, 2024
Museums & Institutions KAWS Exhibition Shut Down by Protestors, the Latest in a Spate of Political Demonstrations at Museums Other political demonstrations at museums in New York, London, Berlin, and Florence have occured within days of one another. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 16, 2024