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Is This Rubens Real? It’s Difficult To Tell

This is not the first time that claims against the authenticity of Samson and Delilah have made headlines. In 2021, the Swiss tech start-up Art Recognition analyzed a digital reproduction of the painting using an A.I. it had trained to identify paintings by Rubens, concluding that there was a 91 percent chance it was fake. - Artnet

Missing Fragment Of Bayeux Tapestry Turns Up In Germany

The piece was removed from the tapestry’s underside by SS officers in Nazi-occupied France in 1941 and sent for remeasurement to the Schleswig-Holstein State Archive, where it was recently rediscovered. - ARTnews

Pritzker Prize For 2025 Goes To Architect Liu Jiakun

“In China’s era of architectural excess, Liu has instead quietly thrived by letting each site — and the history, nature and craft traditions surrounding it — shape his designs, not vice versa. Whether repurposing earthquake debris or creating voids in which native wild flora can flourish, methodology matters more than form.” - CNN

Delayed George Lucas Museum’s CEO To Step Down

Jackson-Dumont’s departure comes just months after the museum quietly delayed its opening from this year to 2026. The museum has now delayed its opening three times. - ARTnews

Holland’s Famous Art Detective Locates Brueghel Stolen 50 Years Ago

“Woman Carrying the Embers vanished from the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland in 1974. Journalists from the Dutch culture magazine Vind spotted what they suspected was the painting at an exhibition in the Netherlands last year, and they alerted art sleuth Arthur Brand. - AFP (Yahoo!)

See Video Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Being Stolen

“The heist of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 million gold toilet from a British palace was caught on video that was just revealed to the court in the long-awaited criminal trial, as prosecutors explained how the men behind it smashed their way into (Blenheim) Palace … in September 2019.” - Artnet

Buildings Of The Future Will Have To Promote Climate Healing, Says The Dean Of Columbia’s Graduate School Of Architecture

“The Madrid-born architect is spending his time at the university rethinking how buildings and cities should face climate change. He believes that we must commit to an 'interspecies alliance.’” - El País English

Marcel Duchamp: Still Relevant To The Art World?

"Duchamp may not be on the lips of many artists, over a century after his revolutionary moves in the art world, but he is in their subconscious.” - Artnet

Can An Artist Truly ‘Collaborate’ With Another Species?

"The majority of this art is still based on human manipulations of or interventions into natural processes — some of the ‘aid’ here feels, to put it into political terms, far less reciprocal than nonconsensual.” - Hyperallergic

The Mumbai Cooperative Subverting Cellphone Videos And Surveillance Footage Into Art

The CAMP founders: “You had 100 hours of footage for a 60-minute film. That was really the reason for building a non-state archive, and we’re the custodians and collaborators who think the 99 hours may be more important.” - The Verge

Guggenheim Museum Lays Off 20 Staff Amid Worsening Financial Condition

The cuts are spread over six departments, including advancement, education, publications and archives, but do not affect curators and top executives. - The New York Times

The Atlanta Public Art Project That Just Works

With more than 100 sculptures, art installations and murals, the Atlanta Beltline is the largest outdoor public art collection in the Southeast. It’s one of the largest in the country, the closest comparisons being New York City’s Highline and Madison Square Park Conservancy. - ArtsATL

A Literally Bacchanalian Frieze Is Uncovered In Pompeii

Found on three walls of a large banquet room and known as a “megalography,” the set of life-size frescos depicts bacchantes (female followers of Dionysus/Bacchus) hunting, drumming and dancing, along with satyrs playing flutes and drinking wine. The paintings date to the first century BCE. - Artnet

Again, British Museum Defends Its Sponsorship Deal With BP

“The British Museum and the Science Museum … said the company’s decision to grow its investments in oil and gas by cutting back on green spending would not alter their relationship with it. The two museums have come under fire from campaigners for their ongoing association with the company.” - The Guardian

Behold The Portland Museum Of Art’s Restored Monet Waterlilies

“The canvas that is returning to the galleries is remarkably changed, thanks to a conservation project that has radically de-varnished its surface. The effort doesn’t just restore the work’s striking tonalities for the first time in 65 years — it returns the painting to Monet’s original vision.” - Artnet

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