Classical statues are beautiful, but painting them has gone horribly wrong. One theory as to why: Reconstructors are trolling us

M HKA Fires Back at Flemish Government, Denouncing Plan to Close Museum as Illegal

Louvre Walkout Targets Proposed ‘Mona Lisa’ Gallery as Tensions Rise Over Museum’s Planned Renovation

The US’s Only Weather Museum May Have to Close Due to Poor Funding

Defaults on Art Loans Soar, Impact of Australia’s Social Media Ban on Museums, Writer Takes Aim at Singapore Biennial: Morning Link for January 6, 2025

This Canadian Painter Found Her Muse in the Verdant Trees of British Columbia

Defaults on Non-Bank Art Loans Rise by 17% Amid Market’s Struggles, Report Finds

The Egyptologists’ Guide to the Grand Egyptian Museum

Oliver Sacks, romantic science, and the facticity of narrative. Lawrence Weschler explains a 35-year friendship

Literature’s oddest couple? Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller produced a masterpiece and a litany of bad ideas... more

Hans Holbein is best remembered as a painter. But he was remarkably adept at book illustrations, window schemes, and metalwork

More and More ‘Extraordinary’ Artist Visas Are Going to Social Media Influencers, Say Immigration Lawyers

2,000-Year-Old Cemetery and Industrial Complex Discovered in Western Egypt

Lucia Di Luciano, Italian Painter Whose Abstractions Anticipated Digital Futures, Dies at 93

Long-Lost Harry Bertoia Sculpture Is Installed in GM’s Global Headquarters