The American artist James Turrell will unveil a new Skyspace this summer in the foothills of Pikes Peak in Colorado. The work will be installed on a hillside in Green Mountain Falls, a bucolic town near Colorado Springs. The work—one of more than 100 of the artist’s signature light chambers with ceiling apertures open to the sky—will…
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When in 1985, a Texas jury awarded Pennzoil $10.53bn in damages for getting the short end of the contractual stick, the world learned just how powerful a handshake could be. One year prior in New York, the oil giant had reached an informal, but binding agreement to purchase a large stake in Getty Oil for…
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The killing of Daunte Wright by a police officer last month has opened wounds afresh in Minnesota, where only a year ago the death of George Floyd, after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sparked protests that spread across the country. With the trial of Chauvin just…
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Artists of the Lummi Nation in the Pacific Northwest have created a striking totem pole that will tour the US this year to raise awareness about the preservation of sites sacred to Indigenous tribes that are threatened by development and extraction. The totem pole is envisioned as a call to action as well as a…
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The evocative Upper Paleolithic art (dating from roughly 44,000 to 12,000BC) found in caves in France and Spain has long intrigued art historical and scientific researchers. But one facet has stumped many scholars: Why are so many of these paintings found in remote, narrow, hard-to-reach halls or passages that cannot be navigated without artificial light?…
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The permanent collection of Madrid’s Prado Museum now boasts the earliest documented work of Francisco Goya. The work, Aníbal vencedor que por primera vez mira a Italia desde los Alpes (Victorious Hannibal Who for the First Time Looks at Italy from the Alps), was acquired by the Friends of the Prado Foundation for €3.3 million (nearly $4 million)….
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The Covid-19 crisis has led to a fall in funding for museums worldwide with public subsidies decreasing in 50% of the countries surveyed for a report published today by Unesco. The new document, entitled Museums around the world in the face of Covid-19, provides a “provisional assessment” of the state of 104,000 museums in the face of…
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Ruslan Mellin is a facial surgeon based in Siberia who has been treating victims of brutal domestic violence for years—and, more recently, of Covid-19. Art is his salvation and a window onto the humanity of his patients. His drawings have attracted attention in Russia and are now becoming noticed internationally thanks to Meduza, a Russian news…
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Judging the historical record to be incomplete, the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the city of Los Angeles today announced a three-year joint effort to identify, protect and celebrate local sites that are central to African American heritage. Of the 1,200 places in Los Angeles designated as cultural or historic landmarks, the Getty and the…
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He is sometimes mistaken for “that homeless guy” but prefers to be known as “Moses” or “God”. Or he will settle for “Roman Catholic cardinal”, a costume that always gets him a seat on the subway. Henry William Oelkers has portrayed characters humble and exalted over 25 years as an artist model. Most New Yorkers…
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