Museums: With a Giant Orb, Walter De Maria Transforms Hitler's Barracks into...
"Large Red Sphere" has been sited in the Turkentor gallery, a custom-designed space pregnant with historical associations.
View ArticleMuseums: Amid Recriminations in Post-Mubarak Egypt, Antiquities Chief...
Zahi Hawass defends his reputation, as new reports on the fate of the country's cultural sites come in, and some museums reopen.
View ArticleArt & Crime: Desperate Museum Guard Holds Renaissance Masterpieces For...
Antoine Mocellini, a 20-year employee of Corsica's Fine Arts Museum, had attempted to exchange the art for a place to live.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Street Art Undermines Rahm Emanuel's Chicago Victory,...
Plus, the rebirth of Gen Art.
View ArticleMuseums: Struggling Folk Art Museum Plans an Exhibition in Venice During the...
The New York institution, which has been regularly failing to meet crushing debt obligations, plans to show work by black self-taught and graffiti artists.
View ArticleArt and Politics: 50-Foot Nude "Loire Woman" Statue Is Chased Away From...
Sculptor Michel Audiard has had to find another site for his 56-foot tall artwork after neighbors objected to its planned location above a Catholic school.
View ArticleArt and Technology: No Friend of the Nude: A Blushing Facebook Wages a...
Danish artist Frode Steinicke's run-in with the site's decency standards is only the latest case of the Internet giant's ham-fisted approach to the art form.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Jeffrey Deitch Twirls Natalie Portman's Tutus at MOCA,...
Plus, has a new Michelangelo sculpture been found?
View ArticleArts Policy: Billions of Blistering Barnacles! A French Court Upholds Tintin...
Satirical comic artist Gordon Zola has won the copyright suit lodged by the Moulinsart company, which controls Hergé's work.
View ArticlePeople: Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Calls a Starchitect Search for...
David Chipperfield, Dixon Jones Architects, and OMA are among the architects submitting designs for the $400 million mixed-use complex.
View ArticleArt & Crime: Woman Drags Gagosian to Court in Police Brutality Suit on Eve of...
Ingrid Homberg, whom police forcibly ejected from the gallery's Anselm Kiefer show last year, has filed the lawsuit at an awkward time for the gallery.
View ArticleGalleries: OHWOW Gallery Goes West, Expanding to Los Angeles
The New York art platform has added an ivy-covered West Hollywood site to its expanding multidisciplinary program.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Vik Muniz's Oscar Film Trashed by Co-Directors,...
Plus, Lena Horne's Picasso and memorabilia will sing to bidders at auction.
View ArticleArt and Politics: How a Kidnapping Hurled France and Mexico Into a Diplomatic...
France's "Year of Mexico" nationwide museum initiative has been thrown into chaos by a controversial 60-year sentence imposed by a Mexican court.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: 5 Nominees for Best British Street Artist (Who's...
While Banksy is in L.A. for the Oscars, ARTINFO UK highlights a few of the other stars of the London scene that you should know.
View ArticleDesign & Architecture: In Aftermath of Deadly Earthquake, New Zealand Surveys...
Monumental buildings in downtown Christchurch have been severely damaged, and in some cases destroyed altogether.
View ArticleArt and Technology: Google Doodle Conspiracy?: Search Giant Accused of Using...
The real question, though, is why the Whitney has partnered with "Doogle-4-Google" to showcase the search company's logo.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Art World Mercilessly Snubbed at the Oscars, Barnes...
Plus, Christopher Knight takes the air out of the Smithsonian's upcoming censorship forum.
View ArticleArt & Crime: Out of Captivity: Bansky Wins Freedom of Russia's Jailed Voina...
Two members of the radical group have been bailed, while the collective has now denounced a state art contest for removing their work from the running.
View ArticleMuseums: China Debuts World's Largest Museum on Tiananmen Square
Thanks to an ambitious expansion, China's National Museum now has over 2 million square feet of exhibition space.
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