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melanie wrote a new post, The Best Gifts Art-World Insiders Have Ever Received, From a Mapplethorpe Photo to Dinner Plates by Laboratorio Paravicini 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Welcome to The 12 Days of Artmas, our new, non-denominational holiday extravaganza—an advent calendar with gift ideas and stories for art lovers of all stripes, dropping daily through December 2 […]

melanie wrote a new post, These Six Works Available in the Midnight Publishing Group Auctions Sale 'ArtNFT: Beginnings' Are Redefining Generative Art 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Generative and Artificial Intelligence art might sound like something straight out of a science fiction film. However, the idea that an artwork can be created by a machine, devoid of the human hand, […]

melanie wrote a new post, The Best Gifts Art-World Insiders Have Ever Given, From an Old Master Painting to a Zanzibarian Key 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Welcome to The 12 Days of Artmas, our new, non-denominational holiday extravaganza—an advent calendar with gift ideas and stories for art lovers of all stripes, dropping daily through December 2 […]

melanie wrote a new post, Architects Jaqueline Lessa and Francisco Pardo on How Looking to Mexico’s Past Helps Them Design for the Future 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Jaqueline Lessa established her architectural atelier Entre Terras (translation: “between lands”) two years ago in order to answer human questions through craft. This ethos […]

melanie wrote a new post, In a Landmark Restitution, the U.S. Returns 200 Looted Antiquities From Top Museums and Private Collections to Italy 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Painted jars, marble busts, ceramic figurines, and even an ancient Roman statue reportedly sold to Kim Kardashian are part of a trove of 200 objects confiscated by U.S. authorities that have landed in […]

melanie wrote a new post, If You're Looking for a Fragrance to Gift, We'd Suggest a Bottle of Chanel No. 5—an Iconic Muse for Artists Celebrating its 100th Anniversary 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Over the course of the past year, the French luxury house Chanel has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of its iconic Chanel No. 5. The fragrance was conceived in 1921 by none other than Coco […]

melanie wrote a new post, TeamLab Wins Its Lawsuit Against a Chinese Company That Replicated One of the Collective's Immersive Art Experiences 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Setting an important precedent for the copyright of experiential art in China, the immersive art sensation teamLab has won a lawsuit against a company that imitated one of the group’s signature l […]

melanie wrote a new post, Shop the Show: Galerie Lelong's Miami Pop-Up Shows a Shifting Set of Global Artists 11 months, 4 weeks ago

Every month, hundreds of galleries showcase new exhibitions on the Midnight Publishing Group Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on the exhibitions we think you should see. Check o […]

melanie wrote a new post, On the National Mall, The Largest Participatory Art Project in a Quarter Century Makes Tangible the Human Toll of COVID-19 1 year, 2 months ago

Artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg has planted 695,000 white flags on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.—one for each person in the U.S. who has died of COVID-19.
The massive installation, titl […]

melanie wrote a new post, The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week 1 year, 2 months ago

Rubells Make a Move to D.C. – The taste-making Rubell family of art collectors are expanding their private museum to Washington D.C.
Take the Money and Run – An artist received $84,000 from a Dani […]

melanie wrote a new post, The Complicated Story Behind Jasper Johns's Dispute With a Cameroonian Teen Over a Drawing of a Knee (It Has a Happy Ending) 1 year, 2 months ago

Ahead of the opening of his current double retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jasper Johns had a spot of legal trouble. The prob […]

melanie wrote a new post, 7 Exhibits From L.A.’s Academy Museum That Show How It Rethinks Hollywood History, From Boundary-Breaking Oscar Fashion to Problematic Makeup 1 year, 2 months ago

After numerous delays, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally opened its doors this week, as members of the public were invited into the new seven-story, Renzo Piano-designed shrine to movie […]

melanie wrote a new post, The Art Angle Podcast: How Art Basel Did (and Didn't) Change After a Two-Year Hiatus 1 year, 2 months ago

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Midnight Publishing Group News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join u […]

melanie wrote a new post, An Ancient Middle Eastern City Destroyed by a Meteor May Have Inspired the Bible's Tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, a New Study Says 1 year, 2 months ago

New research suggests that the ancient Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hamman, in modern-day Jordan, was destroyed by a meteor—and that the catastrophic event could have inspired the Bible’s tale of Sodo […]

melanie wrote a new post, Bug Infestations at Museums Surged During Lockdown. Here's How They Are Fighting Back to Defend Their Art From Pesky Critters 1 year, 2 months ago

What’s a museum conservator’s greatest enemy? If your mind went straight to men in ski masks, disorderly visitors, or even climate-related threats, you’d be wrong. A much more banal threat haunt […]

melanie wrote a new post, Did Snoop Dogg Really Buy Crypto Artworks Worth $17 Million Under the Moniker 'Cozomo de' Medici'? 1 year, 2 months ago

About a month ago, a new Twitter profile was created under the name Cozomo de’ Medici, an apparent reference to Cosimo de’ Medici, the Renaissance-era patriarch of the dynastic Italian banking fami […]

melanie wrote a new post, The Guggenheim's Chief Curator Naomi Beckwith on Why She Still Has Faith in Museums—and How They Can Change 1 year, 2 months ago

Last February, about a month after Naomi Beckwith was officially named chief curator and deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, she sat down for a television interview with local news […]

melanie wrote a new post, Michelangelo Made This Haunting Pieta For His Own Tomb. Conservators Have Spent Years Painstakingly Restoring It—See Their Process Here 1 year, 2 months ago

Following a two-year restoration effort, a haunting sculpture Michelangelo made for his own tomb is once more on public display in Italy.
A Pietà carved from a single block of marble, the artwork […]

melanie wrote a new post, Hong Kong's Local Art Market Is Flourishing. But Under Its National Security Law, Many Fear an Artist Exodus 1 year, 2 months ago

Hong Kong’s fall art season started with a bang. Eager collectors crowded into the second edition of the boutique art fair Unscheduled, which took over the vacant former Topshop flagship store on Q […]

melanie wrote a new post, Is Jeff Koons as Passionate About Uniqlo as He Sounds? Why Is This Unicorn Named After Picasso? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News 1 year, 2 months ago

Curiosities is a column where I comment on the art news of the week, sometimes about stories that were too small or strange to make the cut, sometimes just thoughts on the circus.
Below, some […]