Hamptons art centre sued over large shipping container sculpture
The town of East Hampton claims Matt Johnson’s 60ft-tall sculpture is a structure built without proper safety permitting
Teodora Axente unveils trophy banner for Palio di Siena horse race
Each year, Siena commissions an artist to hand paint the silk ‘drappellone’, awarded to the museum associated with the race winner
San Diego Museum of Art lays off 11 employees
The museum claimed financial hardship, even as it goes ahead with a starchitect-designed revamp
Archaeologists uncover ancient, live-work ceramic studios linked to Moche civilisation in Peru
Excavations at the Cerro Mayal site in the north of the country show it was an important production facility for Moche ceramics around the seventh century
August Book Bag: from a collection of ‘sizzling’ portraits to a survey of little-known US museums
Our round-up of the latest art publications
Five must-read books on Pan-Africanism and art
The best publications about the subject, from a collection of Surrealist writing to a survey of pioneering architects—selected by Elvira Dyangani Ose and Adom Getachew
What’s it like organising the Venice Biennale? Former curators dish the dirt
Robert Storr speaks about his tenure in this exclusive extract from Massimiliano Gioni’s new book of interviews with biennale artistic directors
Earthquake damages Colombia’s tallest church
A 7.4-magnitude quake caused a tower to collapse at the beloved Manizales Cathedral
Second Breath
Written by Anna Larson We don’t meet ourselves on the easy days. I dug my toes into the sand, arms wrapped around my knees, and the sun beating down on […]
A gripping account of the hunt for the treasure-laden San José shipwreck
A new book details the obsessive quest to find the sunken ship and, following its discovery, the various claims to the ship’s billion dollar cargo
