Art and Artifice

Poster of  2012 Alyson Klayman's documentary "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" As we reported in several posts  here  and again he...

"Untitled", Keith Haring, 1984 A trend in the art field seems the end of many authentication committees: several art-authenti...

A New York strip club is making headlines with a valiant attempt to avoid paying a rather large tax bill. The club, named Nite Moves , ad...

The botched restoration of the Ecce Homo fresco has received quite a bit of attention lately.  As Jeremy wrote in our post of 23 August , th...

New art forms—and the artists who practice them—have transformed and inspired the ad world for many years.  Developments in litho...

Should any reader be in need of a wife, you have one more week to get yourself to the 'Sleeping Beauty' exhibition at the National ...

Last week saw the latest step in an art dispute between Cambodia and Sotheby's. The dispute concerns a 10th century sandstone statue. ...

In "Could babies' faces reduce crime?", posted today on the BBC website here , Daniel Gordon writes (in relevant part): ...

SBS.com reports today on a complaint that the banning of men from watching images of Muslim women without veils in an exhibition due to ope...

Before ... Few items of religious art have had such indignities heaped upon them as Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), a church fres...