February 2024 Art News

Brazilian police are seeking the arrest of the husband of prominent art dealer Brent Sikkema after he was found stabbed in his apartment in Rio de Janeiro.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York shut its galleries unexpectedly on February 10, after hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors began a massive demonstration in the museum.
The date was March 11, 1944. Allied forces were to bomb Florence.
In this week's news, Zaha Hadid Architects introduce a hydrogen refueling station, a stolen Chagall painting is returned to its New York gallery, and John Cage's experimental organ piece changes chords.
An Egyptian bureaucrat's announcement of plans to resurface one of the great Pyramids of Giza with granite draws heated debate in archaeological and scientific communities.
A painting created by The Beatles in 1966, the only known artwork made by all four of The Beatles, sold at Christie's for $1.7 million.
A missing portrait of a girl by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, that was last seen in 1925, has reappeared and heads to auction in Austria in April.