Wangechi Mutu’s Excellent New Museum Survey Transports Viewers to Other Worlds

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Read Time:7 Minute, 35 Second Art historians, like emissaries of pretty much any other discipline, love to box people in, and part of the joy of Wangechi Mutu’s art is…

Anish Kapoor’s Manhattan Mini-Bean Is an Eyesore That No One Asked For

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Read Time:7 Minute, 6 Second It may have been only a couple days since word leaked out that a long-awaited Anish Kapoor sculpture in New York was finally complete, but…

Minimalist Sculptor Robert Grosvenor Leaves New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery After More Than 50 Years

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Read Time:1 Minute, 29 Second Artist Robert Grosvenor, a sculptor who recently appeared in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale, has left the roster of New York’s Paula Cooper…

Rodin Museum Scraps Plans for Outpost in Canary Islands Following Criticism from Locals

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Read Time:2 Minute, 21 Second The Rodin Museum in Paris has scrapped its controversial €16 million (roughly $17 million) project to build an outpost in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a port…

Evelyn and William De Morgan enjoy surge of interest

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Read Time:3 Minute, 40 Second Sixty years ago, they were so unfashionable they were in danger of being forgotten. Today the Victorian artists Evelyn and William De Morgan are having…

New discovery in Italy could ‘rewrite history’

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Read Time:1 Minute, 50 Second It comes after scientists unearthed ancient bronze statues that shed new light on the Roman Empire Historians may have to review the history of the…

The Myth and the Might of Antonio Canova’s Sculptures

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Read Time:9 Minute, 32 Second In 1820, the preeminent neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova completed a marble sculpture of George Washington that divided many viewers. Dressed as a Roman emperor, the…

Artists Protest Mahsa Amini’s Death at the Guggenheim Museum

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Read Time:1 Minute, 21 Second In response to the recent death of Mahsa Amini, a group of anonymous artists staged a protest at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on…

Lost Fernand Léger Painting Reappears After 100 Years Behind Another Canvas

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Read Time:1 Minute, 53 Second A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas.  The work, an unnamed piece from the…

Closely Watched Curators Chrissie Iles, Meg Onli to Organize 2024 Whitney Biennial

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Read Time:1 Minute, 55 Second Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli will curate the 2024 edition of the Whitney Biennial, a taste-making survey of the U.S. art scene as it stands…