Thirty-three stolen artifacts, worth over $20 million altogether, have finally made their way home three years after the matter was formally investigated by the feds.
Coming to terms with the commercialization of art.
Hunter Melton writes to beloved creator Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall) on new and old projects, asking what’s changed.
In late September the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office ordered 7 Schiele paintings to be seized from both private and public (including the Carnegie and Oberlin Museums of Art) collections and repatriated to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret artist who was killed during the Holocaust. Not even 10 days later, six of the paintings hit the auction floor with a combined (expected) sale of up to $8.45 million.
Female artists in Zimbabwe challenge issues of gender inequality in their work.
A Miriam Cahn painting at Palais de Tokyo recently faced backlash, but the artist spoke out to debunk these rumors.