A large donation of $65 million was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to remodel their plaza in September, 2014. Most would assume that a donation like this would be appreciated, as it supported the arts, but when the donor supports other things you do not stand for, that
Tag: museum
In a NewsWeek article, Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt discusses the issue of Nazi-looted artwork that is not properly returned to its rightful owners and questions why US museums are continuing to hold on to these pieces. To this day, many art pieces that were taken by the Nazis during World War
The recently opened museum, The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, features a collection of unique items. They have your regularly unregular Picasso prints, but they also display ancient Chinese sex toys, and even excretions from celebrities, one of whom is Amy Winehouse. As an additional
The race to find Banksy’s newest pieces of graffiti is on! The last panting was found on a Bristol street within hours of when it was done. Not only was it found, but the group removed it with a crowbar and put it in their own private art exhibit. They
The Musée d’Orsay in France has an exhibition called Crime and Punishment. It focuses on art from 1791 to 1981, which is the year that capital punishment was outlawed in France. Throughout these years, violent crime was being fantasized in novels as well as becoming a theme in the visual