Italian officials and a German puzzle maker are battling over a 1,000-piece puzzle bearing the image of the artist’s “Vitruvian Man.”
Tag: Art
Protests Over Gaza Intensify at American Art Museums
A protest at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco led to the resignation of its leader and to a monthlong closure of its galleries.
Teacher Secretly Sold His Students’ Art on Mugs and Shirts, Lawsuit Says
Parents of a dozen students at a school near Montreal accused an art teacher in a lawsuit of reproducing portraits from a class assignment and putting them on items that he offered for sale online.
The Music That Made Us
What happens when we re-encounter cultural artifacts that were deeply important to us and they’ve changed, or we have, or both?
MONA Ladies Lounge Accused of Discriminating by Gender
Gender-based discrimination is central to the women-only art installation, in Australia, but one visitor claims it is also illegal.
Activists Deface Portrait of Balfour, Who Supported Jewish Homeland
A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of the author of the Balfour Declaration at the University of Cambridge in England.
‘Decolonizing’ Ukrainian Art, One Name-and-Shame Post at a Time
Oksana Semenik’s social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists — and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian.
Josette Molland’s Testimony: Scenes of Life in Nazi Camps
In the 1980s, she created a series of paintings depicting the horrors she endured in forced-labor camps during World War II.
Brazilian Police Seek Husband in Brent Sikkema Murder Inquiry
Police officers investigating the murder of Brent Sikkema, a New York gallerist, in Rio are now seeking the arrest of his husband, Daniel Sikkema. His lawyer said he was innocent.
Old-Time Modernity: Cycladic Art at the Met
A major collection of early Greek figures and vessels takes up long-term residence in New York — a transformative event.