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More than 30 years ago, thieves pulled off the single largest property heist in history at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Of the 13 works stolen in the early hours of March 18, 1990, six…
Carlos and Fernando Estrada-Lopez are social workers in Los Angeles, but in Gabriel García Román’s Queer Icons, they are a pair of haloed saints locked in an embrace, surrounded by floating messages in mixed Spanish and…
The J. Paul Getty Museum kicked off its PST ART: Art & Science Collide event series last Sunday, September 15, with a fiery collaboration with Chinese pyrotechnics artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Falling debris…
Malcolm X’s name alone evokes an array of images and social connotations that anchor him in the public zeitgeist as a hyper-militant Black man, provoked by racism yet driven by self-determination. Unlike other dearly beloved…
In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt, 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti gets the rock star treatment. The cover of Giacometti in Paris is comprised almost entirely of the artist’s craggy and pitted face, as timeless and veristic…
The Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran, Iran, is missing 30 paintings from its collections after they were removed from the premises earlier this summer under the pretense of an offsite exhibition that reportedly…
A Michigan art dealer accused of swindling seniors out of $1.6 million in a photography consignment scheme was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Wednesday, September 11, according to the US Attorney’s Office…
This past summer, the Olympic Games took place in Paris. Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body at the Fitzwilliam Museum reminds us that they were in the city 100 years ago too, in an unlovely suburb,…
The second of two bodies buried in lead sarcophagi recovered from beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has almost certainly been identified two years after its discovery. Discovered during a preparatory dig to repair the fire-damaged church’s…
In a new biography by Michael Peppiatt, 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti gets the rock star treatment. The cover of Giacometti in Paris is comprised almost entirely of the artist’s craggy and pitted face, as timeless and veristic…