The Dallas Museum of Art is assessing the damage to several ancient objects after a man reportedly broke into the museum on Wednesday night and smashed them. The suspect has been identified as 21-year-old Brian Hernandez, who broke in around 10 p.m. because, he told authorities, he was “mad at […]
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Art Industry News: The FBI Is Investigating the Authenticity of 25 Basquiat Artworks on View at a Florida Museum + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Monday, May 30. NEED-TO-READ Boy Thrown from Tate Modern Able to Celebrate His Birthday – The young boy who was thrown from […]
Cranbrook Art Museum to open mini-golf course designed by artists
A new, artist-designed, miniature golf course on the grounds of the Cranbrook Art Museum is aimed at attracting more metro Detroiters to a pristine, underutilized greenspace in Bloomfield Hills. The course will be open from 11 a.m. to sunset, Wednesday through Sunday, May 25 through Sept. 25. Each of the nine holes, […]
At Oceanside Museum of Art, ‘A Kind of Heaven’ explores alternate worlds
At the Oceanside Museum of Art, the future is here. Sometimes it’s bright and shiny, other times it’s dark and foreboding. Either way, it’s strange and captivating. “A Kind of Heaven,” which opened Saturday, brings together some of Southern California’s best contemporary visionary artists. Their colorful look at alternate worlds […]
Art Beat checks out Joe Banda work at the New Bedford Art Museum
It is a bit too easy to imagine Joe Banda as one of those shy middle school dorks; the ones drawing Martians and gorillas and monsters and disproportionately busty girls on their book covers. After all, his paintings are filled with men with reptilian heads, horn headed losers, and disembodied […]
Sophisticated artifacts of a long-gone Middle American civilization, at the Dallas Museum of Art
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Most of us are at least vaguely aware of elaborate Aztec, Mayan and Incan civilizations predating — and tragically doomed by — European explorers. Far less known are bygone civilizations in the eastern half of what became the United States. One former center is just a four-hour drive northeast of […]
The M+ Museum Has Removed Three Political Paintings by Chinese Artists as Beijing Continues Its Clampdown on Hong Kong
Three politically engaged works by Chinese contemporary artists have been removed from an exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ museum that showcases the collection donated by Swiss mega-collector Uli Sigg. The removal was discovered when the museum reopened today after a prolonged period of pandemic-related closures. The three works were Wang Xingwei’s […]
Palm Springs Art Museum welcomes ‘Outburst Projects’ residency artists
Fulton Leroy Washington sits at his workspace inside the Palm Springs Art Museum, working on a small mixed media piece that will eventually be dubbed “He Laid Hands On Us.” The artist — a calm, quiet man in his 60s who goes by Mr. Walsh — is creating his piece out of multiple molds […]
At Ukraine’s largest art museum, a race to protect heritage
By BERNAT ARMANGUÉ March 6, 2022 GMT https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-travel-europe-art-museums-museums-768ce266673b85965edc8367c2257370 LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The director of Ukraine’s largest art museum walked its hallways, supervising as staff packed away its collections to protect their national heritage in case the Russian invasion advances west. In one partially empty gallery of the Andrey Sheptytsky […]
Philadelphia Police arrest suspect in Museum of Modern Art stabbing
The suspect was a member of the museum and was known to staff, police said. March 15, 2022, 7:42 AM • 5 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Philadelphia Police on Tuesday said they arrested Gary Cabana, 60, the suspect in a stabbing inside New York City’s […]