US Copyright Office: AI Generated Works Are Not Eligible for Copyright
The US Copyright Office released a statement of policy last week concerning the copyrighting of works made with artificial intelligence. “These technologies, often described as...
The Dreamlike Haze of Monet’s Work Was Inspired by Air Pollution, New Study Claims
A recent study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) claims to have proven a theory that air pollution inspired the painter...
New Museum Taps Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille as Curators of the Sixth New Museum Triennial in 2026
Lisa Phillips, the director of the New Museum and Massimiliano Gioni, the Museum’s artistic director, announced Tuesday that Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille have been picked...
New Investigation Finds More than 1,000 Objects in Met’s Collection Linked to Antiquities Trafficking
Controversies surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s antiquities collection continue to mount as a new investigation has identified more than 1,000 objects in the museum’s...
Elizabeth Peyton to Debut with New Gallery David Zwirner at Art Basel Hong Kong with a Portrait of the Dealer’s Son
Elizabeth Peyton’s first art fair showing with gallery David Zwirner includes a portrait of Zwirner scion and head of content at the gallery, Lucas Zwirner,...
Multimedia Artist Anna Marie Tendler Faces Backlash from Taylor Swift Fans After TikTok Goes Viral
Photographer and multimedia artist Anna Marie Tendler is facing backlash from fans of Taylor Swift after posting a TikTok last week in which she said...
New Museum Planned for Mexico’s Ancient Maya Complex Chichén Itzá
A new museum will be built at the ancient Maya complex Chichén Itzá in Mexico, considered the country’s most-visited archaeological site, with roughly 2 million...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Closes Early After Plans for ‘Guerrilla Art Installation’ by Climate Activists Leak
The Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston shuttered early on Saturday, the 33rd anniversary of the theft of several famous works. The museum said it...
Barkley Hendricks’ Stanley Whitney Portrait Could Break Auction Record
Barkley L. Hendricks’s 1971 portrait of artist Stanley Whitney is poised to break a record when it comes up for auction in May. The life-size...
Arts and Cultural Industries Represented a Record $1 Trillion of the US Economy in 2021, New Report Finds
The arts and culture sectors represented more than $1 trillion of the US economy in 2021 and accounted for a record portion of country’s overall...
Indigenous Remains Repatriated by the Netherlands to Caribbean Island of St. Eustatius
The remains of nine Indigenous people, unearthed by archaeologists on the small Dutch-Caribbean island of St. Eustatius more than 30 years ago, have been returned...
Artworks Worth $20 M. or More Made Up Nearly Half of Art Sold at Auction Between 2018 and 2022
As the art fair calendar continues in full swing and a Johannes Vermeer retrospective at the Rijksmuseum sold out, a new report from Sotheby’s further...
At SXSW, Cheech Marin Talks Identity Politics And What It Means To Be Chicano
Of all the discourse that permeates today’s never-ending newscycle, gender, identity, and race issues create the most heat. But, where there is heat there is light, and comedian and...
Investigation Links More than 77 Indian Antiquities in the Met’s Collection to Prolific Trafficker Subhash Kapoor
At least 77 antiquities from South Asia in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been linked to the convicted art trafficker Subhash...