Politics Three Iraqi Artists Withdraw From the Berlin Biennale to Protest an Artwork Depicting Prisoners at Abu Ghraib The show's curators, who apologized for the artwork, have not said whether they will remove it from view. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 17, 2022
Art & Exhibitions A New Brushstroke Analysis Reveals Vermeer Was Not the Painstaking Perfectionist Art Historians Long Thought Experts at the National Gallery of Art discovered underpaintings on two of the artist’s canvases. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 16, 2022
Art & Exhibitions A Powerful New Diego Rivera Show Reminds Viewers That Everyday Laborers Built the Modern World—and Are Still Building It Today “Diego Rivera's America” at SFMOMA focuses on the artist’s work from the 1920s to the mid-1940s, the most fruitful period of his career. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 16, 2022
Museums & Institutions The Getty Will Return a Cache of Illegally Sourced Ancient Sculptures to Italy, Including a Prized Depiction of the Poet Orpheus The life-size statues, depicting the poet Orpheus with a pair of sirens, will be returned alongside other works. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 15, 2022
Law & Politics A New Law Requires New York Museums to Indicate If Artworks on View Passed Through Nazi Hands The bill was signed by governor Kathy Hochul this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 12, 2022
Museums & Institutions An Archaeology Museum Intends to Bury the Skulls of 13 Black Philadelphians From Its Collection. Not Everyone Is on Board With the Plan An activist says the institution is rushing the decision and misrepresenting its process. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 10, 2022
Art World A Cambridge College Will Install an Antony Gormley Sculpture Honoring Mathematician Alan Turing, Despite Resistance From Preservationists Meanwhile, another sculpture by the artist on another Englland campus has drawn backlash for its design. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 9, 2022
On View How a Salvadorian Children’s Game and a Volcano Inspired Artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s Powerful New Show at the Brooklyn Museum Maravilla turned to Tripa Chuca as a way to meet others during his migration to the U.S. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 4, 2022
Politics Activists in Italy Glued Themselves to an Umberto Boccioni Sculpture in Milan to Draw Attention to Climate Change “The progress that the Futurists hoped for is the same that is now leading us towards mass extinction,” the group said. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 2, 2022
NFTs An Italian Artist Claims to Be Pak, Maker of the Most Expensive NFT of All Time. Is It Really Him or Just a Conceptual Joke? It could also be Paris Hilton, who knows? By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 1, 2022
Art & Tech A Super-Detailed Scan of an Epic Battle Painting Promises to Be the ‘Largest Single Seamless Image’ Ever Created The "digital twin" of Louis Braun's 1893 painting will ultimately have a staggering 1.6 trillion pixels. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 29, 2022
Museums & Institutions Curator Katy Siegel Follows Her Longtime Colleague Christopher Bedford, Departing the Baltimore Museum of Art for SFMoMA The museum also announced that veteran curator Erin O’Toole has been named head of its photography department. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 28, 2022
Museums & Institutions An Albuquerque Foundation Has Returned a Dozen Ancient Relics Discovered in an Old Storage Box to Mexico The objects, which date back to 300 and 600 B.C.E., are headed to the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 28, 2022
Art World An Australian Artist Pulled a Pickle from a McDonald’s Cheeseburger and Slapped It on a Gallery’s Ceiling. Now It Costs $6,200 Lucky buyers of the piece won’t be given the exact pickle, but rather instructions for how to recreate the artwork in their own space. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2022
Art & Exhibitions Manifesta Wants to Bring the Roving Art Biennial to Ukraine—and Have Former Host Cities ‘Adopt’ the Country’s Museums The Ukrainian Institute for Culture has submitted a letter of intent to host Manifesta 17 in 2028. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2022