1+ week, 5+ day ago   (377+ words) Artforum Repatriated Kandinsky Masterwork Will Go Up for Auction at Christie’s London The Colorful Life, 1907, a landmark painting by Wassily Kandinsky that was returned to the heirs of its original Dutch Jewish owners three years ago, will be offered…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (302+ words) Truly contending with Stötzer’s life and work means acknowledging the fact that the autonomy of art is itself historically contingent. Stötzer’s experience of prison did not intimidate her into submission, but emboldened her to push further into public acts of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (198+ words) The US State Department has said it is contemplating selling a painting by Kehinde Wiley that it removed from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic last week, after the director of the department’s Art in Embassies program called it “woke…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (367+ words) Powerhouse Parramatta, a highly-anticipated new state institution and public museum in Sydney, Australia, will open to the public on November 7th. It’s described as the country’s largest cultural development since the debut of the Sydney Opera House. Powerhouse, the largest museum…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (229+ words) The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently received an exceptionally well-preserved 17th-century drawing book as a donation from the prominent Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands, the museum announced. The book, which has been in the safekeeping of the Van Eeghen family…...