Category: Culture & Arts

Here are your morning highlights to start the new week: Little Free Library Fights Book BansLittle Free Library is launching a new map to distribute […]

Richard Brauer, a nonagenarian art history professor who has opposed a controversial plan by Valparaiso University in Indiana to sell three key paintings from its […]

It was mid-afternoon at yesterday’s VIP preview at the Armory Show when the art advisor and curator James Cardoso Shaeffer came prepared to navigate the […]

Best known for his ’80s comedy ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ and his ’90s musical ‘Crazy for You’, the US playwright Ken Ludwig has clearly invested […]

Late last month, over $134,000 worth of historic firearms were stolen from the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum, leading the Australian museum to close for […]

In an Oprah Winfrey-worthy reveal, the incoming class of seniors at New York’s Cooper Union learned at today’s convocation ceremony that they would pay no […]

In 1951, Leonard Bernstein, age 32, led the New York Philharmonic in the belated world premiere of Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 2 – music composed […]

In a shock development that sparked headlines in Bloomberg, the Business Times, and Sing Tao this past week, K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong’s shopping […]

In January 2014, then-president Barack Obama was giving a speech to employees at a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin when he said that “folks can make […]

Italian photographer Marco Anelli spent ten years capturing the construction activity at Magazzino Italian Art, building upon his decades of prior experience to go beyond […]

In the late 1980s, the Sainsbury brothers, operators of the U.K.’s second largest supermarket chain, bankrolled a project to build a new wing at London’s […]

In 1974, German artist Joseph Beuys staged a now famous performance in New York, spending a week in isolation with a coyote inside a SoHo gallery. […]

In 1878, German engineer Carl Humann began excavations in western Turkey at the ancient Greek city of Pergamon. During the eight-year-long effort, Humann and his […]

The Washington Post eliminated its weekly In the Galleries art column effective immediately, as first reported in BmoreArt and confirmed by Hyperallergic.  In an email […]

An artwork by the German landscape painter Carl Blechen that was confiscated by the Nazis in 1942 has been returned to the heirs of its […]

The Abernethy Pearl has sold for £93,951 ($123,000) at auction, a record price for a Scottish freshwater pearl. The pearl was the star lot of […]