A climate activist affixed a sticker to a Monet painting at the Musée d'Orsay on Saturday. The woman, who said she intended to raise awareness about climate change, was arrested. Find out more here.
How is Storm King Art Center one of the best Sculpture Parks in the world? Once the New York art world's best-kept secret, the Storm King Art Center has exploded into popular consciousness in recent years. Suddenly, it seems like everyone is making the short walk to the sprawling outdoor sculpture park, just an hour's drive north of the city in the idyllic Hudson Valley region. Find out more here.
Thousands of the artist's works dating back to 2016 were actually mass-produced years later, according to a new report. Damien Hirst, who appeared on the UK art scene in the 90s, has been painted as a bad guy in the art world. Find out more here.
The work of painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) will be exhibited at the Guggenheim museums in Venice, Italy, and Bilbao, Spain, in 2025, the president of the Arpad Szenes Foundation revealed to Lusa yesterday - Vieira da Silva. Find out more here.
“The Red Studio” is a landmark in the centuries-old tradition of studio paintings and a fundamental work of modern art. Find out more here.
The mystery related to the landscape background of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" has been solved. Now, a geologist and historian of Renaissance art believes she has finally solved the mystery of one of the world's most famous paintings. Ann Pizzorusso combined her two areas of expertise to suggest that Leonardo painted several recognizable features of Lecco on the shores of Lake Como in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Find out more here.
A painting that nearly sold at auction three years ago for $1,600 has been revealed to be a lost masterpiece by Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio.
Two women were arrested by French police last week at the Pompidou-Metz Center after attacking Gustave Courbet's “The Origin of the World” (1866) by spray-painting it with the words “Me Too.” Find out more here.
This summer, the online short-term rental platform is offering a stay in the Musée d'Orsay's clock room, remodeled by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur. Find out more here.
Artist Frank Stella, who redirected the course of avant-garde art in the 1950s and 1960s with sparse, featureless but indelible abstract paintings, helping to usher in the style that came to be known as Minimalism, died Saturday at age 87. Find out more here.
The painting "The Italian Version of Popeye has no Pork in his Diet" by Basquiat goes to Christie's 21st century art evening auction. Find out more here.
Artist Richard Serra, whose monumental, habitable sculptures distort our sense of space and time, died at his home in Long Island, New York, on Tuesday, March 26. He was 85 years old and the cause was pneumonia, his lawyer John Silberman told the New York Times. Find out more here.
A new mural by anonymous artist Bansky has appeared in north London and has been authenticated by the artist. The metamural itself, on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park, consists solely of green paint sprayed onto a blank wall, which, when viewed from the right angle, provides foliage for a bare cherry tree that stands in a small grassy plot and whose branches have been severely trimmed. , leaving him with an atrophied appearance. Find out more here.
Spanish historian, editor and curator Nuria Enguita is the new artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC/CCB, the Board of Directors of the Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém announced today. Find out more here.