museums
The late Young Dolph will be the subject of a touring pop-up museum, which will hit up major cities across the United States. Starting next month in New York City, the Dolphland exhibit will feature original art inspired by Dolph’s legacy and music. It’ll also highlight personal items from the late rapper, and feature key […]
Brooklyn Museum has released official merchandise for Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, a retrospective exhibit that highlights Abloh’s undeniable impact on contemporary culture. The collection consists of everything from Champion pullover hoodies and trucker hats to short-sleeve tees and canvas totes—most of which were conceptualized by Abloh in 2019, about two years before his death. There’s also a handful of home goods pieces […]
The FBI raided the Orlando Museum of Art on Friday and seized 25 paintings attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity. The New York Times reports investigators obtained a search warrant to access Basquiat’s “Heroes and Monsters” exhibit, which opened in February and had been set to close on June 30. The feds claim […]
An Indiana museum has apologized for selling a watermelon menu item in honor of Juneteenth. As pointed out by TMZ, the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis faced widespread criticism this week after someone posted a photo of its “Juneteenth Watermelon Salad” offered in its cafeteria. Social media users slammed the museum for the labeling, saying it perpetuated a stereotype about […]
A man allegedly told authorities that he broke into the Dallas Museum of Art Wednesday night and damaged more than $5 million worth of art pieces because he “got mad at his girl,” NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth reports. Brian Hernandez, 21, was arrested shortly after he got into the museum around 9:40 p.m. by using a metal chair […]
A 36-year-old man who masqueraded as an old woman has been arrested after he smeared cake across the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. As the Associated Press reported, the French capital’s prosecutor’s officer confirmed the man’s arrest following the incident on Sunday, and he has since been taken to a police […]
Researchers from the Alabama Historical Commission will be commencing a 10-day evaluation of the sunken remains of the last-known slave ship in the U.S., per CBS News. The Clotilda, which researchers have described as the most complete slave ship discovered, illegally dropped off 110 West Africans on the Alabama coast in 1860 via the Mobile River. Salvage company Resolve Marine will now […]
Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly stabbed two workers at NYC’s Museum of Modern Art. According to NBC 4, the attack took place late Saturday afternoon, when the suspect was denied entry into a film screening. Police say the 60-year-old man was known among MoMA staffers, as he had been a former member of the […]
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A Danish artist turned in two blank canvases—which he titled “Take the Money and Run”—after a museum commissioned him $84,000 to use in a work of art. Jens Haaning gave the works to the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark after he was paid to recreate 2010’s “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income,” which […]
