After Completing Its Six-Year Initiative, Agnes Gund’s Art For Justice Fund Gives Major Grant to Center for Art & Advocacy
Since 2017, when collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund sold Roy Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece (1962) for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund, the initiative has worked...
Couple May Need to Pay $250,000 to Have Banksy Mural Removed from Their Home
Among those in the art world, waking up to find you are the owner of a new work by the secretive street artist Banksy would...
Archaeologists Discovered 2,500-Year-Old Ancient Greek Catacombs Using Subatomic Particles
Deep below the bustling city streets of Naples, Italy, researchers used futuristic sounding technology to reveal an ancient Greek tomb that archaeologists for years knew...
2,500-Year-Old Pre-Columbian Sculpture Returned to Mexico
A massive stone sculpture known as the “Earth Monster” or “Monster of the Earth” has been returned to Mexico from the United States, the Associated...
At MoMA, Latin American Artists Look Back to the Past in Order to Plot Their Future
In 2016, ARTnews Top 200 collectors Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros made headlines when they announced they would donate 102 works from...
Forgotten Sections of Roman Wall That Once Surrounded London Found Near the Thames
There is no shortage of ancient historic sites to be seen in London, but according to Artnet News, certain parts of the city’s Roman past had...
KAWS Wins $900,000 in Lawsuit Over Counterfeit Artworks
The artist KAWS will soon be $900,000 dollars richer after winning a lawsuit against two Singapore-based companies and a man named Dylan Joy An Leong Yi...
On the Eve of King Charles’s Coronation, South Africans Call for the Return of the Cullinan I Diamond
As last-minute preparations for King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday are underway, some South Africans are demanding that the Star of Africa, which is set...
Missing Idol of Lord Shiva Linked to Dealer Who Pleaded Guilty To Trafficking Stolen Antiquities in 2021
An ancient idol of Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu religion’s most recognized deities, was found to have been replaced by a replica in the Korukkai...
A Teen Drove a WWII-Era Tank to Prom Held at Portland Art Museum to Honor His Father
Local and national news outlets have been charmed by Sherman Bynum, the Camas high school junior who arrived in a World War II light armored vehicle—in other words, a tank—to...
Mellon Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Newark’s Project for Empty Space
Project For Empty Space (PES), the New Jersey-based arts organization that supports socially-aware artists, has tripled their operating budget thanks to a $1.5 million grant...
Adam Lindemann’s Venus Over Manhattan Doubles Down on Downtown
Adam Lindemann’s enigmatic blue-chip gallery Venus Over Manhattan has abandoned the Upper East Side for a new location downtown. But, in typical Lindemann fashion, it’s...
Brussels Royal Museum Director Resigns After Allegations of Racism, Sexism, and Intimidation
A little over four months ago, employees at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels accused Michel Draguet, that museum’s director, of intimidation, racism,...
2,000-Year-Old Graves Found Near Notre Dame During Excavation for Train Station Expansion
Preventative excavations have uncovered a tranche of graves over two thousand years old on Paris’s Ile de la Cite, the current home of Notre Dame Cathedral, El...