The suspects who authorities believe stole 483 Celtic gold coins from the Kelten Römer Museum in Manching, Germany, last November have been arrested in Bavaria, according to a report from the Art Newspaper. When they were discovered in Manching in 1999, the coins were considered the most substantial discovery of CelticContinue Reading
The United States Court of Appeals recently ruled against allowing the descendants of the Jewish former owners of the Guelph Treasure to have their claim judged on merit in a US court, marking yet another setback in their ongoing legal fight with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The court rulingContinue Reading
Locals and cultural officials are angered by the demolition of a 300-year-old minaret, a move they say is tantamount to “the destruction of Iraqi cultural history,” the Art Newspaper reports. The minaret, a nearly 40-foot tower made of brown mud bricks attached to a mosque, was demolished to make way for aContinue Reading
The latest person to join the roster of mega-gallery David Zwirner is neither a painter nor a sculptor with a well-established market but a choreographer who has earned her bona fides in the world of dance and performance art. Dancer Sarah Michelson has inked representation with David Zwirner, which hasContinue Reading
Rosina Rubin has habitually imagined where Arshile Gorky’s 1937 portrait of her aunt, artist Anna Walinska, ended up. Perhaps the canvas wound up in Europe after Walinska begrudgingly sold it in the 1970s. New York, where Walinska was based from the 1930s until her death in 1997, or anywhere onContinue Reading
From the moment it was announced, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spotlight-grabbing exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld: Line of Beauty” has been the subject of criticism. While many have heaped praise on the designer and the indisputable mark he made on fashion, particularly during his tenure at Chanel, others scorned the decisionContinue Reading
Tech entrepreneur Cyrus Hodes is suing Stability AI, the company he co-founded with CEO Mohammad Emad Mostaque in 2020, alleging that Mostaque willfully deceived him about the value of the company. In 2021 and 2022, Hodes sold off his 15 percent stake in the company —his only compensation for 18Continue Reading
A photograph that was recently submitted to a local fashion photography competition was disqualified after it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The image shows the photographer’s son, posing alongside two floral-dressed mannequins in a red bathroom, at an exhibition of luxury fashion brand Gucci. TheContinue Reading
The Museum of Modern Art in New York will soon mount a retrospective for Käthe Kollwitz, the pathbreaking German printmaker whose work often pictured women and the working class and tackled themes life grief and war. Organized by MoMA prints and drawings curator Starr Figura, with curatorial assistant Maggie Hire,Continue Reading
Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who has been imprisoned in Cuba for two years, has appealed to “people of conscience around the world to support our struggle to liberate ourselves and our country” in a letter published yesterday in the Miami Herald. “Today every young Cuban isContinue Reading
