This fall, the University of California, Irvine, and Orange County Museum of Art completed their amicable merger, creating a new entity: the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. Today, the new institution named its first director, Kathryn Kanjo, who...
The Turner Prize, England’s most high-profile art award, has named Nnena Kalu as its 2025 winner. She will take home £25,000 (about $33,300), while the three other shortlisted artists will receive £10,000 ($13,000). Kalu is officially the first-ever learning-disabled...
Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena at the Drawing Center has ambitious goals. The wall text asks: “What role do UFOs and paranormal phenomena play in shaping our understanding of the universe, and how do they challenge or expand our beliefs about humanity’s...
Stealing art from a museum is usually a bone-headed thing to do; even the least scrupulous collectors know better than to buy goods that are so recognizably hot. Many museum heists are committed by career criminals who are far better at figuring out how to defeat...
A California antiquities dealer has surrendered to New York prosecutors a 2,000-year-old bronze statue of a Roman emperor believed to have been looted from an archaeological site in Turkey, as first reported in the New York Times. Aaron Mendelsohn, 74, a Santa Monica...
Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) announced that representative artist Li Yi-Fan and the TFAM team have invited Raphael Fonseca, the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum (DAM), to serve as the curator of Taiwan’s representative...
The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that its director, Christina Vassallo, will leave the museum, effective January 2, 2026. She will join the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a grant-making organization in Philadelphia, on January 5. “It...
A show of French painter Claire Tabouret’s designs for six new stained-glass windows for the Notre-Dame cathedral will open to the public tomorrow, reports the Art Newspaper. The Los Angeles–based artist’s full-scale, ink-on-paper maquettes for the windows will be...
A Stockholm court on Monday acquitted six activists who smeared red paint on the display cade protecting a Claude Monet painting, ruling that they had not intended to damage the work. The painting, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny (1900), was on loan from the Musée...