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...
MTV and the Hirshhorn’s Artist Competition TV Series Reflect on the ‘Traumatizing’ Aftermath of Covid-19
(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the third episode of The Exhibit.) “This commission is traumatizing,” artist (and contestant) Frank Buffalo Hyde...
As It Faces Increased Scrutiny, Desert X Returns to Coachella Valley with a More Low-Key Show
In the short film Kudhi Bari, the architect Marina Tabassum works alongside residents of Bangladesh’s small desert sand islands, or “chars,” to build tiny houses....
At SXSW 2023, Web3ers Pitch Their ‘Decentralized Museum’ and Meet Skepticism
A panel at the 2023 edition of SXSW titled “The Decentralization of Art As We Know It” began with a scene that bordered on self-parody....
500-Year-Old English Farmhouse With Banksy Artwork Has Been Demolished
A dilapidated 500-year-old farmhouse, with a Banksy mural on its side, was demolished in the seaside town of Herne Bay in Kent, England, on Tuesday,...
Nike ‘Deeply Concerned’ With ‘Very Serious Allegations’ Against Artist Tom Sachs
Nike has responded to recent allegations related to inappropriate workplace culture at Tom Sachs’ studio. Multiple former employees of the artist alleged a “destabilizing and...
Curator Behind 1995 Vermeer Retrospective Talks About What Goes Into Mounting a Blockbuster Exhibition
It would be an understatement to say Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., a specialist in Flemish and Dutch art, understands why there has been such high-demand...