When You Can’t Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect
Hyperalergic - In September, the Trump administration set the cap on refugee admissions to the United States for the coming year at 18,000 — a historic low. - read more ...
Court Rules That Picasso’s Electrician Stole 271 of the Artist’s Works
Hyperallergic- It’s lights-out for Picasso’s electrician! In the end to a shocking tale of intrigue and litigation, France’s high appeals court upheld a suspended two-year sentence against former electrician Pi...
The UN’s World Health Organization Says Art Is a Powerful Prescription
Hyprerallergic - “Art is a wound that turns into light,” once said 20th-century artist Georges Braque. His words ring truer than ever in the wake of a comprehensive new study published by the World Health Organ...
France Vowed to Return Looted Treasures But Few Are Heading Back
New York Times - A year ago this week, in a pioneering announcement, President Emmanuel Macron of France said that his country would give back 26 looted treasures to the African state of Benin. - read more...
Black Art Has Its Moment, Finally
The New York Times - What made the 2010s the most thrilling of all the decades I’ve spent in the New York art world was the rising presence of black artists of every ilk, on every front: in museums, commercial ...
The Big Review: Leonardo at the Louvre
The Art Newspaper -The celebrations of artists of the past have rarely acquired a political dimension, as has been the case with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). One may recall that the legacy of this universal ...
How Provincetown Became a Radical Art Haven
artsy - The light and natural, coastal beauty of Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, has inspired artists for over a century. “Provincetown is a place of contrasts: a rugged, rural site with...
NY collector says he was duped into selling Brancusi sculpture
The Art Newspaper - A New York collector has filed a $200m lawsuit against a lawyer whom he claims persuaded him to sell a Brancusi sculpture for only $100,000 with the understanding that he would be amply comp...
Eight Artist Withdraw From Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Ties to Tear Gas
NY Times - Eight artists have asked the Whitney Museum of American Art to remove their works from this year’s Biennial, citing what they describe as the museum’s lack of response to calls for the resignation of...
Inside Hushed Museum Hallways, a Rumble Over Pay Grows Louder
The NY Times - The art handlers at the Guggenheim work under some unusual conditions, having to hang paintings slightly askew and tilted to account for the museum’s sloped floors and curved walls. - read more ...