James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Whistler’s Mother), 1871 Collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Until the advent of Abstract Expressionism, after World War II, American artists who wanted to be taken seriously were obliged to live and work in Europe, primarily in Paris and London. This …
Sandra Poulson. Photo Dami Vaughan When Sandra Poulson was growing up in the Angolan capital of Luanda, her father used to tell her off by saying, in Portuguese, “Este quarto parece uma República!” The phrase, which translates to “This bedroom looks like a Republic!,” was an indirect order for her to clean up her room, …
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Louvre Palace, Paris. Getty Images The Louvre, France’s most famous museum, which welcomes some nine million visitors a year, is on the verge of an immense renovation. After director Laurence des Cars mentioned the institution’s deteriorating condition in a memo, French president Emmanuel Macron announced that the revamp will see Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, …
Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) at the Museum of Modern Art. Photo Robert Alexander/Getty Images New scholarship suggests that a pivotal Pablo Picasso painting—one that helped spur on modernism more broadly—may have been inspired by Medieval church frescoes in the Spanish Pyrenees rather than African art, as many art historians have previously suggested. The canvas in …
A restorer vacuums Romanesque art master pieces at the Catalonia National Art Museum (MNAC). Photo David Ramos/Getty Images A small protest broke out Monday morning outside the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) as Aragonese technicians arrived to inspect a set of contested 13th-century murals that were ordered to be returned to the Sijena Monastery by Spain’s …
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Thomas Kinkade, 2006. Photo Brad Barket/Getty Images The Thomas Kinkade Family Foundation has spoken out against a recent social media post by the Department of Homeland Security, saying that it did not authorize the usage of a painting by the artist that was paired alongside the phrase “Protect the Homeland.” The post, which appeared on …
Police searching for gold coins stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum in 2022. dpa/picture alliance via Getty On Tuesday, three men were convicted for stealing 483 ancient Celtic gold coins from the Kelten Römer Museum in Manching, Germany, in November 2022. The coins were discovered during an excavation at an archaeological town near Manching in 1999. …
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http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1277817928.jpg Mick Taylor, 1982. Photo Ross Marino/Getty Images A donation of 500 guitars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this past May was perceived as a particularly exciting addition to the collection—so exciting, in fact, that the donation even announced via a long-form profile in The New Yorker. But that donation may include one object …
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Works by Tyrrell Wilson. Photo Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images Visual artist Tyrrell Winston, whose “signature use of found, deflated basketballs” has garnered him acclaim—and, he says, contracts with NBA owners—sued the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday for copyright infringement. Winston’s beef centers on Pelicans’ Instagram posts showing New Orleans players in front of deflated basketballs that Winston contends are “substantially …
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Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893 National Museum of Norway, Oslo. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Two paintings vie for the top spot in Western art history, earning them pride of place on countless postcards, posters, and tote bags among other forms of merchandise and mass media incarnations. One is Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, the other, Edvard Munch’s …
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