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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A 2023 protest in Glasgow. Photo Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines BATHROOM TALK. Museums Galleries Scotland, the umbrella body for 455 museums and galleries in Scotland, has warned of “an environment of suspicion and policing of gender” in some restrooms since this year’s Supreme Court ruling on what defines a woman. (The court ruled that the …
(L-R) David Geffen, Donovan Michaels, Lady Jemma Mornington and Arpad Busson at the Vogue World: Paris 2024. Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Entertainment mogul and renowned art collector David Geffen was sued on Tuesday morning by his estranged husband, model Donovan Michaels, for alleged breach of contract, Variety reported earlier this week. The …
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Alex West, CEO of ArtCloud, and Mike Profit, CEO of Artlogic. Photo Benjamin Brooks In the latest sign of consolidation sweeping the art-tech sector, inventory management giant Artlogic and gallery software firm ArtCloud will merge in an attempt to reshape the digital infrastructure that underpins the global art market. The move combines Artlogic’s long-established strength …
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Wesley M. LePatner. Via LinkedIn Wesley M. LePatner, a newly elected trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was among the four people killed by a gunman in a Midtown office building on Monday. LePatner was senior managing director at Blackstone, the headquarters of which are located at 345 Park Avenue, where …
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