Jane Lombard Looks Back at 30 Years of Art and Politics

When Jane Lombard started her career in the art world in the 1990s, she was part of a delegation that traveled to Poland to help Eastern European artists show their work in the United States just before the Cold War ended. Three decades later, Lombard sat at her desk...

Jane Lombard Looks Back at 30 Years of Art and Politics

When Jane Lombard started her career in the art world in the 1990s, she was part of a delegation that traveled to Poland to help Eastern European artists show their work in the United States just before the Cold War ended. Three decades later, Lombard sat at her desk...

Louvre Museum Closed After Dramatic Daylight Heist

Armed thieves stole “priceless” jewelry from a gallery in the Louvre Museum in Paris in broad daylight on Sunday, October 19. Laurent Nuñez, France’s interior minister, told France Inter that burglars broke into the Galerie d’Apollon around 9:30am, half an hour...

Miniature Picasso Painting Goes Missing in Spain 

A miniature gouache painting by Pablo Picasso has gone missing in Spain, according to CajaGranada Fundación, a cultural center and museum in Granada. In a statement shared with Hyperallergic, the institution said that its staff discovered that Picasso’s...

New Painting of Charli XCX Graces Vanity Fair Cover 

Issy Wood’s “Charli 2” (2025), commissioned by Vanity Fair as the cover for the upcoming art issue publishing this November. Wood’s portrait both references and complements Aidan Zamiri’s photos of Charli XCX for the singer’s...

School Nixes Exhibition Criticized by Turning Point USA

A long-running art exhibition of political artwork at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) was not invited to return to the school this year after a wave of right-wing backlash, including from a Tennessee chapter of Turning Point USA. The Fletcher Exhibit of Social...

Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration

In early August, a small group of artists and friends gathered in a Brooklyn studio with a shared question in mind: In the wake of the Trump administration’s tightening grip on the arts, what could and should be their role? Out of a series of weekly meetings and...

Altman Siegel Gallery to Close Next Month 

After nearly 17 years in business, San Francisco gallery Altman Siegel will wind down operations next month. Founder Claudia Altman-Siegel specifically cited the current art market as the reason for the gallery’s closure in an announcement released yesterday,...

Ancient Rock Art Rewrites the Arabian Desert’s History

A trove of life-sized animal rock engravings recently discovered in the Northern Arabian Desert may indicate that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, contrary to previous beliefs that the area was once uninhabitable. Published in the...

Swifties Are Flocking to this German Museum

A museum in Germany is reportedly experiencing a surge in visitors after Taylor Swift released a music video that apparently references a painting in its collection. Monopol reported that visitors flocked to the Museum Wiesbaden over the weekend to view Friedrich...

Man Accused of Urinating on MLK Memorial

Police have arrested a man for allegedly urinating on and damaging a memorial site near Martin Luther King’s crypt in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday morning, October 11. According to the Atlanta Police Department, building security at the campus of the Martin...