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
Museums & Institutions Modigliani Painting Returned to the Heirs of a Jewish Artist The Sprengel Museum is featuring the work alongside an installation by Raphael Denis, the artist-researcher who brought the restitution claim to light. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 16, 2024
Art & Exhibitions Ethiopia Names Artist for Its First-Ever National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Tesfaye Urgessa's paintings stand out for their focus on psychologically ambiguous figures in domestic settings. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 15, 2024
On View Refik Anadol’s New Show at Serpentine Blends Natural Imagery With a Slick A.I. Finish Anadol's visuals are undoubtedly impressive, but don't expect much substance beneath these psychedelic surfaces. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 15, 2024
Art & Exhibitions Contested Wood Sculpture Will Get Star Turn at Venice Biennale The wooden figure was intended to contain the angry spirit of a Belgian colonizer who was beheaded in 1931. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 14, 2024
Art World $45 Million Worth of Art Is Being Held Hostage for Julian Assange’s Life "In our time, to destroy art is much more taboo than destroying the life of people," said artist Andrei Molodkin. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 14, 2024
Art World Koons on the Moon? Artist’s SpaceX Lift Off Delayed A Valentine's Day mission has been thwarted as technical issues blight Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 14, 2024
Archaeology & History Humans Have Been Kissing For Millennia, New Research Shows A Danish husband-and-wife duo say archaeological sources show kissing was happening as early as 2400 B.C.E. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 13, 2024
On View Black History Foregrounded in New Show at London’s Royal Academy Works by a Frank Bowling, Kerry James Marshall, and Lubaina Himid are shown alongside historical paintings a documents that reveal the academy's own historically white bias. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 13, 2024
Museums & Institutions The British Museum Is the Latest Site of Pro-Palestine Protests The protest follows other demonstrations that shutdown MoMA in New York and Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 13, 2024
Museums & Institutions A Monet Painting in Lyon Is the Latest Artwork to Get Souped "In the face of climate emergencies, anguish is legitimate," admitted Lyon's mayor in response to the attack. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 12, 2024
Art World A New Digital Archive Will Preserve Historically Significant Street Art A Banksy mural is among the 5,000 street artworks that will be digitized and made free to view online by Art UK. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 12, 2024
Museums & Institutions An Immersive Van Gogh Show Breaks Attendance Records at the MusĂ©e d’Orsay A new V.R. experience will invite museum goers on a night out in Paris with their favorite Impressionist painters. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 9, 2024