Lone senator blocks US bills creating museums that would celebrate American Latinos and women!
Utah Republican says that such museums would “divide an already divided nation”
Not all they seem: how galleries can spot fake ID documents!
From face-matching software to watching out for shifty behaviour, here is how you can protect yourself from fraudsters attempting to buy art under a false identity
KAWS célèbre: street artist's first survey—and huge inflatable—make waves in Hong Kong
KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, is now firmly in the mainstream art world
First Cupid, now a wine glass? More revelations emerge from restored Vermeer painting in Dresden
Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain
US dealers rush to leave Maastricht as Trump’s European travel ban causes confusion
Aiming to stop the spread of coronavirus, the suspension begins at midnight on Friday and is expected to last 30 days
Chila Burman brings her eye-popping Punjabi neon extravaganza to Covent Garden's storefronts
Belarus silences dissenting artists with long prison terms
A growing number of culture workers are being jailed on spurious charges
Museums & Heritage
Here is some information about Museums, and also some gold nuggets on Heritage.
Looted Benin bronzes to be lent back to Nigeria
Pledge by European museums to set up “permanent display” of rotating loans in Benin City could pave way for restitution
Manet of the Valleys: portrait of the artist's bespectacled cousin to be restored by National Museum Wales
Painting will undergo extensive technical examination and cleaning thanks to €20,000 grant from Tefaf fund
British Museum to restore glass artefacts shattered in Beirut explosion
Eight vessels from the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut will undergo conservation thanks to €25,000 grant from Tefaf fund
Nazi loot
Ten myths about Vincent van Gogh
Why stories—from the mutilated ear to the eventual suicide—can distort our view of the art