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‘It’s All About the Materiality’: Watch Jack Whitten Experiment With the Physicality of Paint in His Abstract Artworks

ART NET NEWS – For the first time ever, an entire exhibition dedicated to the late artist Jack Whitten’s landmark “Greek Alphabet” series is on...

Scholars Have Decoded the World’s Oldest Sentence Written With an Alphabet. It’s a Highly Specific Warning… About Lice

ART NET NEWS – If you expected humankind’s earliest scribes, when they first began writing with the alphabet, to record some kind of generational wisdom...

In Case You’ve Missed It German Museums Fine Climate Protestors for Damaging Property, But Environmental Groups Show No Signs of Slowing Down

ART NET NEWS – The recent spate of climate protests at museums across Europe have involved cheap tricks that use everyday items like glue, tomato...

A French Auction House Fired the Employee Responsible for Pricing a $7.5 Million Qianlong Vase at Just $1,900

ART NET NEWS – The expert, who remains unidentified, “made a mistake,” auction house president Jean-Pierre Osenat told the Guardian. “One person alone against 300...

In Case You’ve Missed It Homage or Copy? Deborah Roberts Is Suing a Fellow Artist for Allegedly Stealing Her Photocollage Style

ART NET NEWS – Deborah Roberts waited a long time for recognition. Six years ago, the 59-year-old artist was working in a shoe store when...

Conservators Used New X-Ray Imaging Technology to Find the Underlayers Below Vermeer’s Beloved ‘Milkmaid’

ART NET NEWS – In the run-up to the Rijksmuseum’s celebration of the 350th anniversary of Johannes Vermeer’s birth, the museum has revealed a new,...

Drake Is the Surprise Angel Investor Behind the Resurgence of Luna Luna, a 1987 Art Carnival With Rides by Haring, Basquiat, and Dalí

ART NET NEWS – DreamCrew, the arts and entertainment firm co-founded by rapper Drake, has acquired all remnants of Luna Luna, an otherworldly art carnival...

An Artist Sold a Fake ‘Basquiat’ Frame for $780,000 at a Top Art Fair. Now He Says It Was a Prank

ART NET NEWS – A wooden picture frame attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat and offered for $3 million at TEFAF New York in 2017 has been...

The World’s Oldest Map of the Stars, Lost for Thousands of Years, Has Been Found in the Pages of a Medieval Parchment

ART NET NEWS – The historic document, which comprises 146 folios, comes from St. Catherine’s in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and the majority is...

Archaeologists Are Uniting to Demand the British Museum Return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt

ART NET NEWS – Launched in September, the campaign urges Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to submit an official request for the return of the...

In Case You Missed It – Shara Hughes Suspends Time With Landscapes in Her New Swiss Museum Show—See Images Here

ART NET NEWS – In one painting, we gaze upon bright night skies surreally lit by a glowing purple moon. In another, we peer through...