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Looted Artifacts Returned to Italy
Looted artifacts are on their way back to Italy, as New York investigators hand over 142 objects they’ve seized in the past year. A third of the stolen assortment came from the collection of Mr....
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Hall des Lumieres to Open This Fall
The Hall des Lumieres will open this fall in New York City, and bring immersive digital art to a whole new scale. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank was built in 1909, a Beaux-Arts icon designed by...
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Met Opera Opens With Medea
The Met Opera season opens for 2022, with a lushly dark staging of a play written over 200 years ago. “Medea” by Luigi Cherubini and François-Benoît Hoffman premiered in Paris in 1797, and turned...
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The Hamptons: Art’s Summer Home
The Hamptons has a long list of art offerings for a nice weekend away from New York City. On the far eastern end of Long Island, New York, the Hamptons has been an artistic and privileged retreat...
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Opera Star Seeks New Audience
Opera star Sonya Yoncheva is launching a record label to try to connect her art to the new generation. Sonya Yoncheva, 41, is a soprano from Bulgaria, and has sung in many of the largest operatic...
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Hebrew Bible Up For Auction
A Hebrew Bible over a millennia old is going up for auction, and Sotheby’s hopes it will sell for at least $30 million. The Codex Sassoon is 1,100 years old. It’s handwritten on parchment and...
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Two Murals Found After 60 Years
Two murals thought lost from the Empire State Building have been found on an antiques and design website. Winold Reiss, a German-born American artist from the 1920s and 30s, painted eight art deco...
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The Vessel Indefinitely Closed
The Vessel in New York City remains indefinitely closed, after measures fail to prevent a fourth suicide on the art structure in only four years. The Vessel is the centerpiece of the Hudson Yards...
View ArticleBélizaire, Revealed
Bélizaire, an enslaved black teenage boy, has been restored to a painting from which he was erased, now on display at the Met. Bélizaire was a household slave of the Freys, a wealthy white family...
View ArticleGold Toilet Still Not Found
A gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim Palace in England in 2019, and four men have been charged with maybe the world’s funniest theft. The gold toilet is an artwork named “America.” The artist,...
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