3+ hour, 1+ min ago   (198+ words) By Ara H. Merjian “The legendary actress visits Christie’s galleries at Rockefeller Center and finds herself captivated by the gilded sculpture.” Thus trumpets the tagline for Nicole Kidman’s assignation with Constantin Brancusi’s bronze and gold leaf Danaïde (1913), circulated online this past…...

20+ hour, 2+ min ago   (266+ words) Mary Heilmann, an influential abstract painter who received her first solo exhibition in a New York museum in her 60s, died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York. Her studio announced the news in an Instagram posting, adding that she died…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (359+ words) Brazilian authorities have recovered eight prints from Henri Matisse’s iconic “Jazz” series (1947), the New York Times reports. Two armed men stole the works on December 7 from the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo during public hours at the city’s…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (268+ words) A Pablo Picasso painting stolen while on loan from the Guggenheim Museum more than six decades ago has resurfaced, and the museum has gone to court to get it back. The story begins on February 6 of that year, when a…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (267+ words) The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned a storied fragment of of the Odyssey to its galleries. Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (338+ words) As workers race against the 72-hour, so-called golden window to rescue survivors from collapsed buildings following Monday’s devastating 7.4 earthquake in northern Colombia, the region’s museums are also in serious jeopardy. In his post, Garces wrote, “70% of the cultural infrastructure of…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (256+ words) Kit Fitzgerald, a visionary video artist with a sense for the music and motion of painting, died on August 3 at 73. The news was announced by her husband and longtime creative partner, Peter Gordon, on Instagram. He wrote that she “fought…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (269+ words) London's cultural sector is facing growing scrutiny over salaries that fall short of the expertise and experience demanded. Good morning! Police in Italy and Brazil have recovered nearly a dozen paintings stolen over the last year London’s cultural sector…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (372+ words) The shakeup at Pace Gallery isn’t over. Just two months after the gallery laid off roughly 50 employees in a sweeping restructuring, two of the executives who helped shape Pace during its years of rapid expansion are headed for the exit....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (202+ words) For decades, the descendants of the Senegalese Muslim mystic, scholar, and military commander Omar Saïdou Tall have been trying to retrieve his stolen belongings, known as the “treasure of Ségou,” from the French state. The trove, spread across several French…...