Artist Maurizio Cattelan, famous for his 2019 Art Basel piece where he duct-taped a banana to a wall that sold for over $390,000, has responded to a lawsuit accusing him of plagiarism. California-based artist, Joe Morford, filed the lawsuit in the Southern…
LG Group, a South Korean multinational conglomerate, has joined forces with the Parsons School of Design in New York to create AI technology that can support art and design education. Over the next three years, the two organizations, LG AI Research and…
An artist in New York City, Kris Kashtanova, has been awarded the first known registered copyright for AI-generated artwork. The recent grant of a registered copyright for an AI-generated graphic novel by New York City-based artist Kris Kassanova has reignited the debate…
The UK’s declining art market and its fall behind global competitors in creative goods and services exports are being attributed in part to Brexit, according to a report from the House of Lords. The report criticizes the government’s approach to the arts…
The issue of Nazi-confiscated art has been a pressing concern for decades. In 1998, the Washington Principles were published to help resolve this problem, although they are not legally binding. The recent passing of the “Bachelot” law in France, which allows for…
Deborah Roberts, a renowned collage artist, has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Lynthia Edwards, an artist who creates similar collages of Black children and Edwards’ art dealer and gallery. However, the defendants are seeking to have the case dismissed on the…
Unify, an art collective in Cardiff, Wales, recently painted a mural on a local wall to showcase the history of multiculturalism in the area through football. The artwork features a photograph of a real person and is a tribute to a former…
A Spanish collector, Guillermo Chamorro, is being tried for forging 15 art pieces by well-known artists like Edvard Munch, Saul Steinberg, and Roy Lichtenstein. These forged works were sold at various auction houses in Europe. According to El País, the Madrid prosecutor’s…
The Mayor of Amiens, in northern France, has asked Madonna to return a 19th-century painting lost during WWI, which they believe she may have bought. The painting “Diana and Endymion” by Jérôme-Martin Langlois was once displayed in an Amiens museum but was…
As Chanel presented a surreal “zoo” at Paris Fashion Week, art and fashion combined. Designer Virginie Viard teamed up with artist Xavier Veilhan, using Coco Chanel’s apartment’s bestiary as inspiration for the show’s animal sculptures. The creatures, made of wood, paper and…