From ‘Brat summer’ to Brat fundraiser: Charli xcx to headline Lacma gala
Charli xcx at the Met Gala in New York on 6 May 2024 Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live NewsCharli xcx, the British pop superstar whose album Brat has…
Triple show to celebrate the Dutch Old Master Maarten van Heemskerck, who fell out of favour until the 1980s
Maarten van Heemskerck's Self-Portrait with the Colosseum (1553)m Fitzwilliam Museum; Photo: Andrew NormantThe deck has long been stacked against Maarten van Heemskerck, a giant of 16th-century Dutch art. Celebrated in…
Lacma, Moca and the Hammer Museum jointly acquire significant collection of works by Los Angeles artists
Diedrick Brackens, nuclear lovers, 2020 Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Various Small Fires Los Angeles / Texas / SeoulThree of Los Angeles’s most closely watched…
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns
"To those who find this letter": In July 1990 John Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover) left a typed and signed note in one of the false columns during building…
A thoroughly modern master of the horse: George Stubbs at 300
Ozias Humphry, Portrait of George Stubbs (1777), and Stubbs's Whistlejacket (1762), which was painted for Wentworth Woodhouse, in Yorkshire, and has been in the collection of the National Gallery, in…
World’s first museum of Sufi art to debut in Paris
Looking to eliminate cultural ignorance and to share knowledge: the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO© Jean-Yves LacôteFrom the legendary Persian poet Rumi to Iran’s most famous living sculptor,…
Noguchi and Marisol sculptures lead sale of storied Abrams family collection
The Bicycle Race (1962-63) by the Venezuelan American artist Marisol, whose work is enjoying a posthumous surge in interest, is being offered from the Abrams collection with an estimate of…
Trump posing with my book is ‘comical’, says Andres Serrano
All is golden when you're showered with gifts: Donald Trump and the publicationPhoto: Isabelle BrourmanIt was heartening to recently see Donald Trump gleefully posing with a copy of the book…
California College of the Arts contemplates major changes amid $20m deficit
A rendering of the California College of the Art's campus expansion Courtesy California College of the ArtsThe California College of the Arts (CCA) has become the latest art school in…
After decades of neglect, public Amelia Toledo sculpture in Rio will finally be restored
Amelia Toledo’s Palácio de Cristal (1998) as it stands today Photo: Courtesy Galeria Nara RoeslerA monumental public work made by the late Brazilian artist Amelia Toledo (1926-2017) in Rio de…