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The Gun that May Have Killed Vincent van Gogh Sold for Over $180,000
The revolver believed to be the weapon van Gogh used to commit suicide (©AuctionArt/Drouot) At AuctionArt Paris, Vincent van Gogh‘s so-called “suicide gun”— the weapon believed to be the weapon the...
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This Disputed Caravaggio Is a Centuries-Long Mystery and Was Sold for an...
Caravaggio, “Judith Beheading Holofernes” (circa 1607), (image courtesy Cabinet Turquin) A so-called Caravaggio painting that was seemingly lost to time has just been sold to a mysterious buyer for an...
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The Little Ivory Chess Piece That Sold for Almost $1 Million
The recently discovered Lewis Chessmen piece (photo courtesy Sotheby’s) At a Sotheby’s sale on July 2, one of the famous Lewis Chessmen pieces sold for £735,000 (~$927,423) — 55 years after it was...
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A View From the Easel
The 145th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just check out the submission guidelines. David Manley,...
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Andy Warhol Foundation Awards $3.81 Million in Spring 2019 Grants
Andy Warhol, “Self-Portrait” (1964), acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 20 x 16 inches, (image courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists...
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When Theater Champions Queer and Marginalized Voices
Justin Ahdoot and Brittany Anikka Liu in Preexisting Conditions (photo by Michelle Tsai, courtesy Corkscrew Theatre Festival) Now in its third year, the Corkscrew Theater Festival is a welcome breath...
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A Showcase of Contemporary Dominican Cinema
Still from La Isla Rota (courtesy of Dominican Film Festival) The 8th Dominican Film Festival (DFFNYC) is underway this week in New York City, showcasing 70 films from Dominican filmmakers between July...
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The Clearest Recordings of the First Moon Landing Sold for $1.82 Million
“Original, First-Generation NASA Videotape Recordings of the Apollo 11 Lunar EVA” (1969) (image courtesy Sotheby’s) The Sotheby’s Space Exploration Auction — comprised of photographs, tapes, models,...
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“America” as Filmed by Directors From Outside the United States
Still from John Woo’s Face/Off (1997) (image courtesy Film at Lincoln Center) Conceptually, the term “America” — its rhetorical validity, its walls, its many distinct interpretations and experiences,...
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Iconic Rembrandt Etching Acquired by Princeton University Art Museum
Rembrandt van Rijn, “Landscape with Three Trees” (1643), etching with drypoint and engraving (image courtesy Princeton University Art Museum, Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and...
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Mead Art Museum Receives Over 170 Pieces of Contemporary Art From Anonymous...
Ingrid Calame “CgONG!” (made from “#70 3/4 Working Drawing”) (2002) enamel on aluminum, 48 x 48 inches (courtesy the artist) The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College received 170 works of contemporary...
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The Artistic Achievements of Native Americans Through the Ages
Unrecorded Arapaho artist, attributed to “Henderson Ledger Artist A,” also known as Horseback, “A Medicine Vision” (Arapaho, Oklahoma, 1880), pencil, colored pencil, and ink on paper (courtesy...
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Vintage Labor Posters and More Just Sold for Over $500,000
William Sanger, “Vote American Labor Party / Roosevelt and Lehman” (1936) (image courtesy Swann Galleries) Swann Galleries sale of Vintage Posters raked in $503,030 split across 380 lots sold. One of...
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A View From the Easel
The 146th installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just check out the submission guidelines. Christina...
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Walk the Streets That Inspired Jack Kirby’s Comics
Jack Kirby, “Street Code” (1990) (courtesy the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center) We remember Jack Kirby as “The King” of comics for good reason. The legendary co-creator of Marvel’s Fantastic Four...
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Help Write the History of Radio in Grassroots Organizing
Poster for Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves (image via the Interference Archive) You can learn a lot from taking a deep dive into Wikipedia’s 29 million-ish pages, like say its list of unusual...
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An Art Fair Brings Over 80 Artists to Governors Island
Lori Nelson, “Bigger Than This Town” (2017), oil on panel, 24” x 36 (image courtesy Portal: Governors Island) New York City’s Governors Island Art Fair will return this weekend for its 12th edition,...
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24 Impressionist Master Paintings Donated to the High Museum of Art
Camille Pissarro, “Pièce d’eau à Kew, Londres” (1892) oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 inches (courtesy High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Doris and Shouky Shaheen Collection) Atlanta’s High Museum of Art has...
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An Evening of Music, Films, and Poetry on Climate Change
Tropical Storm Nicole near hurricane strength on October 6, 2016. (photograph by NOAA/NASA, courtesy Wikimedia Commons) On one side of the spectrum, it’s Jair Bolsonaro turning the burning of the...
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The Art Institute of Chicago Acquires Nearly 500 19th-Century American...
Unknown Maker, “Untitled (Surveyor)” (1854), daguerreotype, 10.7 x 8.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, plate) (The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, restricted gift of The Phillip Leonian and...
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