When the heirs of the late Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, began looking through his belongings, they were shocked to find a collection of almost 25,000 works of art – most of it worthless.
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This list spans approximately 25,000 years of art-making and is by no means comprehensive. Although this history is complex, the manner in which the female nude appears through the ages is sometimes academic, often objectifying, and occasionally empowering.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s former Georgetown home, the first home she bought after John F. Kennedy's assassination, is up for auction with a list price of $19.5 million.
Visionary Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was exploring abstraction five years before Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. We take a brief look at her work timed with its inclusion in the survey exhibition Judy Chicago: Herstory at the New Museum.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York has announced that it will rectify its care of some 12,000 human remains, and remove all human bones from public display.
In recent years, America has witnessed a profound transformation in its approach to monuments honoring historic figures with ties to slavery or other crimes against humanity. As society grapples with its nuanced historical legacies, a new bill proposed in New York stands as a pivotal development, poised to reshape the way the nation addresses its complex past and the symbols that represent it.
While Surrealism of the early 20th century was a male dominated movement, here are ten women Surrealist artists and innovators who broke the movement’s glass ceiling and used their work as a tool for social change.
With the opening of the exhibition, Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe: 1400-1800, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, featuring the work of groundbreaking women artists across four centuries, we take a look back at artist and art critic Jennifer Higgie's 2021 book The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: 500 years of Women’s Self Portraits.
The Art Institute of Chicago museum and their employee union have come to an agreement, securing their first contract which promises pay raises and affordable healthcare.
At the Deutsches Museum in Munich, an employee stole paintings from the permanent collection, swapped them for forgeries, and sold the original works at auction.
