The Getty called and the people answered: thousands recreate famous artworks from the comfort of home
The Getty put out a call to the people and boy have the people responded. On March 25th, the museum sent out a Tweet accompanied by an Instagram post challenging […]
Art Lesson: how the readymade made its way into the artworld
Purpose of this lesson: Art at home can seem impossible but it isn’t! For many artists, the things you’ll find at home are the perfect items to create art out […]
Art World Roundup: More COVID-19, COVID-19, and Kanye West
In this week’s Art World Roundup we bring you more COVID-19 news and a little bit of Kanye West’s early artworks. LA arts project helping feed the community Having provided […]
10 orchestras and choirs making sure the show goes on while social distancing
In some ways, social distancing has brought us together. Within the space of a few weeks, FaceTime, Zoom, Skype, Google Hangout, and a plethora of other video chats have made […]
Museums & their workers struggle against coronavirus
I work at an art museum in the United States that closed two weeks ago to join the struggle against spreading Coronavirus (COVID-19). I am one of many workers whose […]
Van Gogh painting stolen, on the artist’s birthday, from museum closed due to coronavirus
Around the world, museums have been shuttered as more than 3 billion people have gone into lockdown amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The Singer Laren museum, some 20 miles southwest of […]
Kunstmuseum Basel agrees to settlement involving Nazi era works
More than a decade ago, a restitution claim for 200 works that once belonged to Curt Glaser, a renowned Jewish museum director, and worth an estimated $2 million (£1.6 million) […]
