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2 days ago

Artists on Their Favorite Artworks at the Met, the Louvre, the Prado and Other Museums

American art reflects diverse cultural values and personal connections through various mediums and styles.
History
fromCornell Chronicle
4 days ago

Classical art historian Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58 | Cornell Chronicle

Annetta Alexandridis, a renowned classical archaeologist, passed away at 58, leaving a legacy in art history and education.
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

The Guardian view on a much-needed boost for the arts: rebuilding England's cultural landscape

The V&A East Museum opens in Stratford, London, revitalizing the cultural landscape amid challenges faced by arts organizations across the UK.
Paris food
fromFrenchly
2 days ago

What PAD Paris Reveals About Parisian Design Culture - Frenchly

PAD Paris elevates design to collectible art, showcasing its cultural significance and attracting global collectors and galleries.
Graphic design
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

Generative AI is criticized for harming creativity, exploiting artists, and causing societal issues while tech leaders promote it as a revolutionary tool.
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 days ago

How Do Museums Care for Unconventional Acquisitions?

Knowles's performances, such as Make a Salad and Identical Lunch, showcased her unique approach to art through food, engaging audiences in the experience of preparation and consumption.
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History
fromwww.dw.com
2 days ago

Teen discovers first ancient Greek artifact found in Berlin

A 13-year-old discovered a rare ancient Greek coin from Troy in Berlin, revealing potential links between ancient Greece and northern Europe.
London
fromTime Out London
4 days ago

These spectacular London cultural institutions are receiving millions in government funding

London's major arts venues will receive £130 million from the Arts Everywhere Fund to enhance access and improve cultural infrastructure.
Arts
fromArtnet News
3 days ago

One of the Art Market's Biggest Secrets, Revealed | Artnet News

Global auction totals increased by 13.3 percent in 2025 compared to 2024, signaling a recovery in the auction market.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 week ago

Head of Medusa stolen a century ago to be restored

A 16th century marble sculpture of the Head of Medusa, stolen for over a century, has been recovered and will be restored in Florence.
#art-theft
fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago
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It Took Thieves 3 Minutes to Steal $10 Million in Art. Here's Why Museum Heists Are Becoming More Common.

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
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Art thieves nab three paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse in Italy | Fortune

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fromArchitectural Digest
2 weeks ago

The 6 Most Shocking Art Heists in History, From the Mona Lisa's Disappearance to the Latest Italian Scandal

A $10 million art heist at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation involved the theft of works by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse.
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fromEntrepreneur
2 weeks ago

It Took Thieves 3 Minutes to Steal $10 Million in Art. Here's Why Museum Heists Are Becoming More Common.

A well-planned heist resulted in the theft of three valuable paintings worth $10 million from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Italy.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
France news

Art thieves nab three paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse in Italy | Fortune

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fromGothamist
3 weeks ago

Bic pen heirs say their Renaissance masterpiece was stolen. Did the chauffeur do it?

The Bich brothers are suing to reclaim a stolen 15th-century painting that disappeared from their family's apartment 20 years ago.
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fromwww.nytimes.com
2 days ago

The Painting Movements Everyone Should Know

The fusion of poetry and painting in Chinese literati art influenced global artistic movements, emphasizing the equivalence of text and image.
fromHyperallergic
2 days ago

LACMA Got a Makeover

The courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Queens was buzzing during Wednesday night's opening of Greater New York, now in its sixth edition. Our team shares first impressions from the expansive show, which included more than 50 New York City artists at the beginning of their careers.
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fromArtnet News
3 days ago

Lost Lincoln Portrait From Teddy Roosevelt's Office Reemerges After a Century

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln, once in Teddy Roosevelt's office, will be displayed at the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening July 4.
Education
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Homework till midnight and one breakdown a week': the mysterious art school keeping a forgotten style alive

The Ecole Van der Kelen-Logelain in Brussels teaches specialized painting techniques including trompe l'oeil, an illusionistic art form creating three-dimensional illusions on flat surfaces through textures, shading, and perspective tricks.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project Launches Online

The first comprehensive catalogue of Marsden Hartley's artworks is now available online.
fromArtnet News
4 days ago

7 New Art Books to Step Into Spring | Artnet News

Casa Kahlo offers an unprecedented look into the famed Mexican painter's family home, Casa Roja, which stands just blocks away from Casa Azul in Mexico City. Kahlo would retreat to Casa Roja when Casa Azul got crazy.
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fromArtnet News
4 days ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
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Books
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer

Syracuse University Libraries provides practical tips for salvaging water-damaged books through a visual guide with both intuitive and specialized restoration techniques.
fromArtnet News
4 days ago

Artnet and Artsy Come Together Under Shared Leadership | Artnet News

Artnet was founded to bring transparency to the art world, and Artsy-to make discovering and buying art more accessible. Connecting the businesses opens up new possibilities, including modernizing and building upon the art world's most trusted pricing tools.
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fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Art Problems: Do I Need to Go to Art Fairs?

Art fairs are optional; attendance depends on individual goals and networking strategies.
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Object-Specific Protection: The Non-Negotiable Foundation of Art and Asset Security

Object-specific protection is essential as a primary security layer to prevent art theft, as comprehensive facility-wide systems fail when adversaries physically interact with high-value objects without triggering alarms.
Higher education
fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

Like seeing art of Roman chapels in technicolor for first time - Harvard Gazette

Students learned centuries-old stucco sculpting techniques through hands-on practice, gaining deeper understanding of Renaissance and Baroque artists' material choices and creative processes.
Arts
fromExchangewire
4 days ago

AI Crowns the Most Beautiful Artworks of All Time for World Art Day

DAIVID's AI ranked The Birth of Venus as the world's most beautiful painting based on emotional responses to art.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer

The V&A often uses Chinese printers because they can produce catalogues at half the cost of British or European companies, but this requires compliance with censorship requests.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

London's V&A launches webpage exploring provenance of its objects

The new webpage, entitled 'How have objects come to be in the V&A?', points out that for some objects, their journeys have involved known histories of violence, coercion or injustice, while for others there remains uncertainty over exactly how they came to be here.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

Greece introduces new law to tackle art forgery

"Until recently, there was no specific legislation addressing the forgery of artworks and collectibles. Instead, these cases fell under the 'smoother' general provisions of the criminal code concerning fraud and forgery, which required proof of a financial transaction in order for an offence to be established."
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 week ago

Pressing issues: the vital role of printmaking in the history of art

Yale came to me and said there isn't an overarching book about the history of printmaking; they wanted it to be about the printed image. There are a lot of books about printing-about the history of journalism or the history of books, the printing press and the printed word-but not so much about the printed image and its processes. So that was my challenge.
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Renovation
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Material Mediation and Architectural Heritage

Updating historic buildings requires balancing modern performance, regulatory demands, and energy goals while preserving material, cultural, and symbolic continuity.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Were the Popes Art History's Ultimate Collectors? | Artnet News

Pope Urban VIII's patronage of Gian Lorenzo Bernini significantly shaped Baroque art and architecture in Rome during the 17th century.
#louvre
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

A View From the Easel

The artist values the quiet of the countryside and the collaborative relationships with other artists in their community.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Thieves Steal Paintings Worth $10M by Cezanne, Matisse, and Renoir

Thieves stole three valuable paintings from a museum in Italy in a swift, organized heist.
History
fromMedievalists.net
1 month ago

Dreaming of Owning a Medieval Artefact? Here's Your Chance - Medievalists.net

TimeLine Auctions' March 3 online sale features hundreds of medieval historical objects including a 13th-century Limoges cross, 1224 Chinese armor, Viking silver mount, and Anglo-Saxon brooch.
Paris food
fromFortune
1 month ago

The new Louvre director has to restore an institution that was literally robbed in broad daylight | Fortune

Art historian Christophe Leribault becomes Louvre director, tasked with addressing security failures, infrastructure problems, and operational crises following a major crown jewels heist and ticket fraud scandal.
History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
2 months ago

17th c. panel returned to church 30 years after it was stolen

A stolen 17th-century memorial panel from a Hertfordshire church was recovered and returned after 30 years through a keen Australian heraldry enthusiast.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago

Comment | Museums must be the leaders in a moral revolution

Bregman claims, 'Today the whole of Europe risks turning into one big Venice, a beautiful open-air museum. A great destination for Chinese and American tourists. A place to admire what was once the centre of the world.' This statement encapsulates the concern that Europe is losing its cultural significance.
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fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

Monumental Bellini Altarpiece Undergoes Major Restoration in Public View

Giovanni Bellini's San Giobbe altarpiece will undergo a significant restoration behind glass, stabilizing the wood panel and analyzing pigments.
#michelangelo
Arts
fromUntapped New York
3 weeks ago

See a Forgotten Michelangelo Sculpture at The Met in NYC

A sculpture attributed to Michelangelo remained unrecognized for nearly a century before being displayed at The Met.
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 month ago

Explore 3D models of Met masterpieces

More than 100 art works have been scanned in ultra-high resolution with portable laser scanners that could image objects that are unmoveable and could not be scanned by traditional machines. That data combined with photogrammetry techniques that puzzle together thousands of photographs to create a photorealistic composite.
History
fromMedievalists.net
2 months ago

Early Medieval Church in Rome Draws Attention After Fresco Restoration - Medievalists.net

San Lorenzo in Lucina, a medieval church, drew renewed attention after conservation of a modern fresco whose figure was likened to Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Met Acquires Long-Lost Work by Mannerist Master Rosso Fiorentino | Artnet News

The oil on canvas presents an unusual and dynamic composition of a serene Madonna alongside her energetic child with a reverent Saint John pressed up close in the painting's foreground.
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History
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 month ago

Etruscan urn's polychromy restored after 1966 Florence flood

The Bottarone Urn, a 425-380 B.C. Etruscan alabaster cinerary urn depicting a married couple, was restored to its original vivid polychromy after 60 years of mud damage from Florence's 1966 Arno River flood, revealing Egyptian blue pigment for the first time.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

El Greco Painting Found Hidden Beneath a Forgery in the Vatican

A previously hidden El Greco painting titled The Redeemer from the 1590s was discovered in the Vatican after restorers removed a forged overpainting that had obscured the original work.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

'It has nothing to do with Michelangelo': expert wades in on painting newly attributed to Renaissance master

Belgian art historian Michel Draguet claims to have discovered a Michelangelo painting from the 1540s, but leading Renaissance experts dispute the attribution based on artistic style analysis.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

Dresden museum wins Tefaf award for Rubens restoration

Dresden's Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister receives the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund award to restore Rubens' The Boar Hunt, removing discolored varnish and undoing damaging 19th-century repairs to reveal the painting's original composition and palette.
Arts
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Belgium believes it has discovered an unknown painting by Michelangelo

A painting titled 'Spirituali Pieta' previously attributed to an anonymous sixteenth-seventeenth century artist has been identified as a work by Michelangelo, potentially bringing the total number of his known canvas paintings to five.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and other institutions now offer 3D digital models of artworks, enabling detailed examination of textures, materials, and hidden details impossible to see in person or through standard digital images.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

I work as an attorney during the day and let loose at night in my studio, usually into the morning hours. As soon as I enter, the curtains open to a city night sky, my Spotify connects to my speaker, I change into my studio clothes, and I begin.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums

An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck? Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the small number of surviving works by one of western art's greatest masters, revered for his naturalistic portraits and religious subjects.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Sistine Chapel Mural Restoration Tackles Layers of Sweaty Residue

Vatican conservators are removing dried sweat deposits from Michelangelo's Last Judgement fresco to restore its original vibrant colors obscured by a white film caused by daily tourist condensation.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

When Artists Lose Their Archives

An artist lost a storage unit and later discovered parts of their work were sold online without notification, stripping authorship and meaning.
Arts
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Why Ultra-Contemporary Artists Are So Obsessed With Old Masters | Artnet News

This winter New York shows reveal contemporary artists engaging deeply with European art history through material choices and direct references, not just market-driven name-dropping.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

When it comes to restitution, how can museums solve a problem like inalienability?

When Thomas Jefferson wrote about the "inalienable" rights of man in the US Declaration of Independence 250 years ago, it's possible he lifted the term from the French. And long before it was ever used as an adjective to describe human rights, it defined royal property. To this day, "inalienability" remains a cornerstone of public collections in France-and many other countries-impacting museums and their ability to deaccession, including for purposes of restitution.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Rediscovered Rembrandt Confirmed After Decades of Doubt | Artnet News

Advanced imaging and material analysis have led experts to reattribute a long-overlooked biblical scene to Rembrandt van Rijn, identifying the 1633 painting as a lost masterpiece after more than six decades of doubt. Titled Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, the work was last studied in 1960, when scholars ruled out the possibility that it could be by the Dutch master.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

The $12.7 Million Painting That Exposed a Museum Scandal | Artnet News

Chinese investigators uncovered decades of mismanagement and corruption at the Nanjing Museum that diverted nationally significant artworks into the private market.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

An artist in a Bronx studio paints multiple figurative works simultaneously, drawing inspiration from local institutions, music, and the neighborhood's vibrancy.
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Van Eyck Attribution Dispute Pits Art Historians Against A.I. Firm | Artnet News

Once again, A.I. and human experts are butting heads over the authenticity of a world-famous painting. A Belgian art historian has refuted claims made by Swiss company Art Recognition that two paintings have been falsely attributed to the Northern Renaissance master Jan van Eyck. The paintings in question are versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata (ca. 1428-32) belonging to the Royal Museums of Turin and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Archival Art Will Not Save Us

Archival work supports historical recovery and cultural self-understanding, but not every artwork must be archival and political work requires action beyond mere presence.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

A View From the Easel

The studio is at my house within a ranch, surrounded by nature. It's on the second floor of the house, where there's better light. My routine all day shifts between studio work and housework, including outdoor garden work. I get up a bit before 7am, drink coffee in the yard, and get morning sunshine. Then my husband and I eat breakfast and do a bit of cleaning or some chores in the garden.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Prado Conservators Get a Loewe Makeover

Designed in close dialogue with the Prado's conservators, the coats meet strict functional requirements essential to restoration work. They are constructed from high-quality, non-reflective materials that prevent any glare from interfering with the surface of a painting-an essential consideration when working millimeters away from a Velázquez or a Bosch.
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