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D.C. Megacollectors Mitchell and Emily Rales Unveil Plans to Expand Their Museum
On Monday the notoriously secretive billionaire industrialist Mitchell Rales and his art historian and curator wife Emily Rales gathered a small selection of Maryland’s cultural elite on the...
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Mick Jagger, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Moss, and More Turn Out for...
A-list celebritiess joined artists and patrons in London on Wednesday night for the Serpentine Gallery’s annual gala garden party. Sponsored by L’Wren Scott, fashion designer and life partner of Mick...
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Feud Over Anne Frank Artifacts Pits Foundation Against Museum
A legal feud between the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank Fonds has ended in favor of the Fonds, the Switzerland-based prosecutors, according to The New York Times. Personal letters...
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Gromit Sculptures Attacked in Bristol Amid Wave of Public Art Vandalism
Over the weekend, two large sculptures of Nick Park’s iconic claymation canine Gromit — one half of the beloved man-and-dog cartoon comedy duo “Wallace & Gromit” — were damaged and hauled off for...
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The Market for Prints and Editions Just Keeps Growing
While being unique was once the primary factor in determining the value of an artwork, collectors are looking at small edition trends to help strategize their investment plans, according to the...
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Jennifer Bartlett’s First U.S. Retrospective Opens in Philadelphia
Jennifer Bartlett is finally having her first retrospective at a U.S. museum, Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which has opened a show of her paintings and sculptures spanning...
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Should Brits Be Allowed To Borrow Art From Their National Museums’ Collections?
Sociologist Tom Shakespeare shares an interesting idea for making the U.K.’s government-owned art collection more accessible to the public, in a thoughtful Point Of View article for the BBC....
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Oslo’s Moving Up in the Art World
Helsinki may have passed on a Guggenheim outpost, but rival Scandinavian metropolis Oslo is making a play for regional art capital. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the factors contributing to...
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Italian Authorities Having a Hard Time Tracking Amateur Tomb-Raiders’ Trove
A ten-year-old tomb theft in Italy is still under investigation, the New York Times reports, and the five suspects — who have yet to be named or prosecuted — are not of the skilled, professional grave...
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World’s First Restaurant Featured in 19th-Century Painting at the Wallace...
Foodie journalist Paul Levy made a startling observation while visiting “The Discovery of Paris,” a new exhibition at London’s Wallace Collection featuring early 19th-century watercolors by British...
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How Contemporary Art Could Keep Murano’s Glassmakers in Business
Is the Venetian glassblowing community ready to trade in their traditional fare for contemporary art? They may have no choice but to take on more fabrication jobs, the Economist reports, as the...
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The French Restaurant at Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art Can’t Serve Wine, and...
French chef and restaurateur Alain Ducasse finds art within the limitations of creating a fine dining experience in the Islam nation of Qatar. Idam, which occupies the top floor of Qatar’s Museum of...
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Construction Begins on Asia’s Largest Private Art Museum Off the Coast of...
Construction has officially begun on the Pingtan Art Museum, which will be Asia’s largest private art museum when it opens at an as-yet undetermined date, designboom recently reported. With their...
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Kenyan Artists Find Eager Market Among Chinese Collectors
The past ten years have seen a surge of interest in Kenyan art by China’s growing collector base. Business Daily Africa reports that with residencies and solo shows in China more and more frequently...
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After Fathers4Justice Attack, Queen Elizabeth II Portrait Back on View at...
Ralph Heimans’ portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has been put back on display in Westminster Abbey after undergoing restoration work to repair the damages done by Fathers4Justice activist Tim Haries, BBC...
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Ralph Nader Moves Ahead With Museum Plan, Buys Former Bank Building to House It
Ralph Nader’s long-awaited Tort Museum project may have finally found its home. According to the County Times, Nader has bought a former bank building on his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut’s Main...
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The Smithsonian is Running Out of Storage Space for its 130 Million Objects
The Smithsonian Institution has been especially busy managing crises recently, with workers walking out and the ongoing turmoil at the Hirshhorn Museum, but the megalith institution may be facing even...
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Luxury London Hotel Brings the City’s Street Art Inside
Street artist and TED Prize winner JR may be looking to turn the world “Inside Out” with his global street art project, but the ME London hotel is doing the opposite with its new street art exhibition...
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Museums Go Screaming Mad for Munch as Artist’s 150th Birthday Approaches
While Edvard Munch may be best-known for his iconic and auction-record holding work “The Scream” — and its innumerable parodies — the sesquicentennial of the prolific artist’s birth has sparked a slew...
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The MCA Chicago Has Cool New Axonometric Maps, But They Only Printed 6,500 of...
In an effort to better engage its visitors, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago has enlisted the help of local design firm ODLCO to create an immersive map and guide to their facilities....
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