The President of the Yaddo Artist Retreat Steps Down

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After a quarter century, the Yaddo president Elaina Richardson will step down, having made her mark on the storied arts residency.

This Mushroom Plays a Musical Instrument. We Interviewed the Scientist Behind It.

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A UK company called Bionic and the Wires has found a way to harness bioelectric current from fungi to play a keyboard

Subversive Botanicals in Miami’s Art Underground

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Miami artists Ọmọlará Williams McCallister and Janae Hernandez use non-native plants to explore immigration and gentrification.

The Familiar Fingerprints of a Forgotten Art Heist

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After a valuable de Kooning was discovered behind a bedroom door, a true crime fan wondered: Is that all the thieves stole?

A Rare Portrait Of Maryland’s Medical Hero Was Rediscovered In A Mussels Joint

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The painting depicts John Beale Davidge, a physician known for his ideas about yellow fever and founding the University of Maryland School of Medicine

This Woman Didn’t Want To Return A Stolen 16th Century Painting Then She Changed Her Mind

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Despite her legal claim to ownership, Barbara de Dozsa has decided to return an artwork by Italian artist Antonio Solario that vanished more than 50 years ago

The Case of the Met’s Missing Banksy

The New Yorker

The street artist snuck a “brilliant” art work into the Met, in 2005. Then it disappeared. Does a former head of security know where the painting is?

Art Adviser. Friend. Thief.

Lisa Schiff became the country’s leading art consultant, and drew her clients close. Then she stole millions from them. Now facing up to 20 years in prison, is she ready to repent?

An Afternoon Lost at Sea Inspired Julia Felsenthal’s New Paintings

Vogue

One afternoon in July 2023, the painter and writer Julia Felsenthal, her husband, and their two dogs took their small motor boat into Pleasant Bay, off the coast of Cape Cod. A deep fog descended, and for four hours they puttered around in the eerie abyss.

How Does the Writer Say Etcetera?

Los Angeles Review of Books

Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of “etceterization.

A Rare Cross-Section Illustration Reveals the Infamous Happenings of Kowloon Walled City

Colossal

The rare panorama peers into the compact neighborhood, glimpsing narrow dance halls and entire factories tucked inside cramped quarters.

The Role of New York’s Lauded Looted Art Unit Is Challenged in Court

In what has been a celebrated effort to right old wrongs, the Manhattan district attorney’s art trafficking unit has returned more than 4,600 artifacts and artworks to countries and heirs after finding they had been looted.

A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall

On a sandstone cliff in South Africa, a series of paintings recount a riveting battle. Spears fly as shield-wielding warriors charge. Animals, including an aardvark and scores of antelope, fringe the fracas.

50 Years Ago, the World Trade Center Was Home to the Art Crime of the Century

Fifty years ago on Wednesday, the French high-wire artist Philippe Petit carried his life a quarter of a mile through the New York City sky on a tightrope. When asked why, he said it was simply because the World Trade Center towers were there. The human need that Mr.

The global ambitions of Invader’s street art.

The New Yorker

The ground was squelchy, leading the mind to wonder what sort of organic matter was decomposing underfoot. A topsoil of potato-chip bags and soda cans disturbed the silence that Invader and his accomplice, Mr. Blue, were trying to preserve. It was 1:03 A.M. on a Wednesday in mid-July.

A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead?

John Szarkowski, the legendary former curator of the Museum of Modern Art, once described photography as “the act of pointing.

Hey Dad Can You Help Me Return the Picasso I Stole?

The Picasso fell off the proverbial truck. It vanished from a loading dock at Logan International Airport in Boston and wound up where it didn’t belong, in the modest home of one Merrill Rummel, also known as Bill.

With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum

If you studied art history or another of the humanities in the 1990s or 2000s — say, if you are around the age of the Australian comic Hannah Gadsby, 45 — you may remember the word “problematic” from your long-ago seminar days.

Lear’s Lyrical Coasts

The New York Review of Books

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. The shifting margin of sea and land, often lit by the moon, held a lure for Edward Lear, a tidal ambivalence.

How Artisans in Puerto Rico Sustain Native Culture

Smithsonian Magazine

After living in New York City for a year, I decided it was time to go home to Puerto Rico. I had grown increasingly worried that the island’s unique art forms and crafts, which draw on centuries of Caribbean, African, Spanish and American influences, were in danger of disappearing.