A new interactive networking site is connecting artists and curators to alternative arts venues around the world: The network promotes independent art spaces as an alternative to traditional state-sponsored museums. Find out more here.
Newly discovered servants' quarters near Pompeii reveal little-known details about the lives of ancient Rome's former lower class. The discovery could help us understand more about how ancient Rome's elites treated and controlled their servants. Find out more here.
As details surrounding a wave of thefts at the British Museum continue to emerge, Greek authorities are using the scandal to play politics for the return of the Parthenon marbles. Find out more here.
The foundation Júlio Pomar, created twenty years ago to store and publicize the work of the artist who died in 2018, will close by the end of the year, and will leave the artistic heritage to the Atelier-Museu in Lisbon, according to the president, Alexandre Pomar. Find out more here.
Leonardo da Vinci's 'Treatise on Painting' and other ultra-rare Renaissance books could be auctioned for $25 million. The 16th century book collection is considered the best library of its kind that exists outside of Europe. Find out more here.
The painting of 15-year-old Bélizaire with the children of the family that enslaved him was restored to its original composition after his figure was covered around 1900. Find out more here.
On August 14, the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) filed suit against former director Aaron De Groft on the grounds that he destroyed the institution's reputation by knowingly displaying fake works by Jean-Michel Basquiat with the intention of legitimizing them and selling them for their own profit. Find out more here.
Entitled “Women dressing women" ("Women who dress women", in the Portuguese translation), the exhibition will be on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York, between December 7th and March 3rd, 2024, showing more of 80 objects that portray the designers' work, including pieces by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Sarah Burton, Ann Demeulemeester, Elizabeth Hawes, Jeanne Lanvin, Germaine Émilie Krebs, Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli. Find out more here.
A group of German students have for the first time deciphered an ancient script dating back thousands of years to the Kushan Empire, nearly 70 years after it was first identified. Records a previously completely unknown Middle Iranian language. Find out more here.
Pieces by Sandro Botticelli, Francesco Granacci and Giovanni Bellini from the Uffizi Gallery are featured in Ferragamo advertisements. Find out more here.
The Lost&Found collection heads to an RM Sotheby's auction (August 17-19) as part of Monterey Car Week in California, the world's premier automotive event. Find out more here.
Nigerian-born British artist Mary Evans has been chosen as the next director of London's prestigious Slade School of Fine Art, effective October 4 this year. Find out more here.
Artist Brice Marden, whose abstract paintings defied easy categorization, died at home Wednesday in Tivoli, New York. The 84-year-old artist's daughter, Mirabelle Marden, announced the news on Instagram. Find out more here.
Jamie Reid, the artist who helped define the look of punk with his brilliantly subversive collages and protest art, has died aged 76. Reid's death was first reported by Louder Than War and confirmed by his gallery, John Marchant. In a post on Instagram, the gallery remembered Reid as “an artist, iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, rebel and romantic”. Find out more here.