An ATM at Art Basel Miami Beach takes a photo every time a user inserts their credit card and displays their photo with their bank account balance. Diplo declared himself the winner of the leaderboard, until recently someone dethroned him from the top with $9.5 million.
The biggest art theft in modern history is a mystery left unsolved for over 30 years. Is it now a lost cause? Netflix’s This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist shed a new light on the ongoing investigation that is, unsurprisingly, leading nowhere. A year after the show’s release, we still know nothing.
In a surprising move, the British Art Council has announced a plan to redistribute their funding - supporting new rural cultural institutions but leaving London organizations floundering.
A piece by Mondrian may have been hanging upside down for over 75 years. Ultimately, its orientation will not be changed. So has the perspective of the modern viewer changed at all?
In a monumental court case, the E.U. has overruled a decision pronouncing Banksy’s trademark on his spray-painted apes “invalid in its entirety,” allowing the international art icon and activist to maintain his anonymity.
