Art and Society

arnet news - Bruno Bich, the heir to the Bic pens fortune and the company’s former CEO, is suing his estranged wife over a Pablo Picasso painting, a couple of Alberto Giacometti sculptures, and several other wo...

design boom - a martial arts center in yokohama, japan, has been converted into a shelter for homeless ‘net cafe refugees’ following the closure of these comic book havens because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  - r...

The Art Newspaper - Joanna Moorhead, the biographer and relative of the rediscovered Surrealist woman artist, talks about learning to adventure creatively from the confines of home. - read more ...

dezeen -  Max Siedentopf suggests alternative masks to protect against coronavirus. - read more ...

The Architect's Newspaper  - Some good news out of Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province and epicenter for the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak that’s now intensifying elsewhere across the glob...

While dozens of galleries, museums, and fairs have shuttered worldwide amid the rapid spread of COVID-19, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has become the first major museum in New York City to close due to the pa...

artnet news - The billionaire art collector and fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa is giving away ¥1 billion ($9 million) to a group of his Twitter followers in a “social experiment.” - read more ...

The Art Newspaper - Experts believe underdrawing in St Stephen’s is first evidence that the master worked in the Austrian capital. - read more ...