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Two protesters were arrested after hurling mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting inside the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, NBC News reports. The museum released a statement via Twitter declaring “Grainstacks,” the 1890 painting from Monet which was targeted in the protest, was not damaged after undergoing an “immediate conservation investigation.” The pair was eventually charged with trespassing and property damage. According to […]
Barack and Michelle Obama stopped by the White House on Wednesday for the unveiling of their official portraits—marking their first joint visit to the residence since Obama left office in 2017. The unveiling ceremony took place inside the White House’s East Room, where the Obamas were joined by President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, […]
The NYPD is looking to track down the vandal responsible for defacing a Notorious B.I.G. mural in Brooklyn. As reported by CBS News, a Biggie mural located at the corner of St. James Place and Fulton Street in Clinton Hill was vandalized on Friday, as someone spray painted the rapper’s face and wrote the words “East Coast” across the painting. […]
A Memphis mural dedicated to late rapper Young Dolph, who was fatally shot in November, was defaced last week ahead of its officially scheduled unveiling. As reported Memphis’ Commercial Appeal, the mural was defaced by two unidentified men who tossed paint on it on July 21. Surveillance footage of the shopping center where the art was located, which is also where […]
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 […]
It runs in the family. Fans are now noticing that Drake’s son Adonis is apparently a pretty talented painter—in case they didn’t know already—after his mother Sophie Brussaux shared a photo of the 4-year-old working on a canvas. The boy, whose mother is an artist, can be seen in the photos paining away at something that looks […]
Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe was sold on Monday for a record-setting price. Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” one of several iconic images the legendary artist made of Monroe in the 1960s, sold for $195 million at Christie’s in New York. The piece is now the most expensive work by a U.S. artist that has been ever […]
Paintings from Raqib Shaw are the focus of a new exhibition opening at Dries Van Noten’s Little House gallery space this month. As part of a collaboration with the Jay Jopling-owned White Cube gallery, Dries Van Noten and curator/dealer Jeffrey Deitch will present the Tales From an Urban Garden exhibition at the Little House space in Los […]
A bill has been introduced in the New York State Assembly in an effort to prevent former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s portrait from being included in Albany’s Hall of Governors. Republican Assemblyman Doug Smith of Long Island introduced the bill, which is called the Predator Portrait Prevention Act, so Cuomo’s picture isn’t placed on the second floor of the […]
