Although the elements vary, the genre is characterized by a reliance on text and discourse to support an abundance of materials, distributed spatially. - ArtForum
"The Afghan heritage site Mes Aynak is currently at risk of being destroyed due to a delayed mining project. The site, just 25 miles southeast of Kabul, is believed to contain the second largest untapped copper mine in the world. The deposits are estimated to be worth $100 billion." - ARTnews
The unnamed motorist, who claims not to remember the incident, drove into the Palm Beach backyard of billionaire art collectors Steven and Lisa Tananbaum, knocked the sculpture — Hirst's 2017 work Sphinx — off its pedestal, and plunged over the property's five-foot seawall. "Rich-on-rich crime, or revolutionary act of climate awareness activism?" - Hyperallergic
"A former Los Angeles auctioneer," Michael Barzan, "has agreed to plead guilty in a scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. … The paintings ultimately wound up at the Orlando Museum of Art before they were seized by federal agents last year." - AP
"The (16th-century) textile was found in the 1980s in Glen Affric, a region in the Scottish Highlands about 19 miles west of Loch Ness. Measuring about 21 by 17 inches, the wool fabric is woven with multiple horizontal and vertical bands of variating colors." - Artnet
A 26-year-old man (acting against his girlfriend's advice) climbed on top of a public artwork called Talus Dome and made of stacks of stainless steel globes. Then he saw an opening and slid himself inside. Police charged him with a count of criminal mischief after they rescued him. - CBC
Land artist "Dario Gambarin said he was inspired by Picasso’s 1907 self-portrait to create what he says is the largest portrait of the Spanish artist in the world." - The Guardian (UK)
"'It’s called stealing,' said comic strip artist Hy Eisman, who has just turned 96 and only recently discovered that Lichtenstein had reproduced one of his images in the 1960s. 'I worked like a dog on this stupid page and this guy has $20m to show for it.'" - The Observer (UK)
"Before filming, Williams participated in sculpture training sessions, both on Zoom and in-person at Lahti’s art studio in Portland. Lahti began by sculpting while Williams watched, and later the actor got her hands dirty and molded clay herself." - Los Angeles Times
Modern art was profoundly affected by jazz. You can see its influence not only on American artists such as Romare Bearden, Robert Colescott and Bob Thompson but also on Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian. Has hip-hop had a comparable impact on art? - Washington Post
"(Juan de Pareja) remains an elusive figure within art history, with details of his life prone to myth, his paintings often misattributed and no more than two of his works ever exhibited in the same place." - CNN
Adam Platt: "As you move from one pleasantly distracting set piece to another, pondering when to ingest the lemon-flavored edible in your pocket, it feels like playing hooky — a reprieve from the hushed, ponderous solemnity of the Establishment museums and galleries." - New York Magazine
The vision that he outlined was grand. It included restoring the largely bombed-out building of the regional administration as a functional monument, the way Norman Foster did with the former Reichstag building in Berlin by capping it with a giant glass dome. - The New Yorker
Twenty-seven years, reams of research and hundreds of thousands of dollars later, Ayers’ associates have come forward to claim the artwork, called the Flaget Madonna, as a work from the studio of Raphael, an Italian painter from the High Renaissance. - Chicago Tribune
"The Edo people in the Kingdom of Benin, modern Nigeria, created their extraordinary sculptures with melted down brass manilla bracelets. … A team of German researchers compared their metal with metallic ores and mines across Europe before tracing them to the Rhineland in western Germany." - The Guardian
