Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" (2018) is installed at Sotheby's on Sept. 3, in London. On Thursday it was auctioned for $25.4 million, a record for the artist. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's hide caption
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In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 file photo, visitors take photos of the 3D re-production of Michelangelo's David at the Italy's pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. One of the most talked about attractions at the world's fair underway in Dubai is a towering statue made of marble dust that's raising eyebrows just as its original form did more than 500 years ago. Kamran Jebreili/AP hide caption
Imageboard, My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Hayao Miyazaki © 1988 Studio Ghibli hide caption
You can now enter Hayao Miyazaki's enchanting animated world at the Academy Museum
Aminah Robinson in her home Jeff Bates/Courtesy of the Columbus Museum of Art hide caption
Jens Haaning's artwork "Take the Money and Run" is seen in the Kunsten Musem of Modern Art. The empty canvas was meant to hold thousands of dollars in cash — but the artist chose to hang on to the money. Niels Fabaek/Kunsten Museum of Modern Art hide caption
Hobby Lobby bought the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet for $1.67 million in 2014. Now it's being returned to Iraq. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hide caption
Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" is installed at Sotheby's on September 03, 2021 in London, England. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's hide caption
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor, 1894, oil on canvas, Art Bridges Dallas Museum of Art hide caption
Hung Liu, Resident Alien, 1988. Oil on canvas. Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, gift of the Lipman Family Foundation. Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery hide caption
Remembering Hung Liu, A Portraitist Who Memorialized The Invisible
Artist Chuck Close at a 2019 exhibition of his work in Ravenna, Italy. Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/Getty Images hide caption
All Me, by Winfred Rembert McCartin/Daniels PR hide caption
The Late Winfred Rembert Documented His Life With Art — And Now A Book
A man covers himself from rain with an umbrella as he walks by the Baltimore Museum of Art on April 21, 2020. An upcoming exhibit at the museum will be curated by security guards. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption
At This Baltimore Museum, Security Guards Will Be The Ones Curating The Exhibit
Sandro Botticelli, Ideal Portrait of a Lady ("Simonetta Vespucci"), 1475-80, tempera on poplar panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin hide caption
The Lincoln Center campus, presently adorned in a green carpet of synthetic grass, hosts a Juneteenth experience June 19. Sachyn Mital/Lincoln Center hide caption
In New York City, A Juneteenth Event Examines The Meaning Of Freedom
Renovations to the Smithsonian Castle will be on the Fine Arts Commission's agenda. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Junior Court Official is one of two 16th-century plaques produced at the Court of Benin that will be returned to Nigeria by the Met. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art hide caption
In January 2020, Arizona artist Ann Morton put out a call on social media asking people to create 8 inch by 8 inch textile squares that use equal parts red and blue. The squares and the project as a whole stands for a set of values: respect for the other, citizenship, compromise, country over party and corporate influence, and creativity. Bill Tillerman hide caption
The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Chicago cut some programming but retained its small staff during the pandemic. National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture hide caption
A New Report Shows Museums Had A Bad Year — But Not The Worst Possible
Artist Paul Rucker is creating a new multimedia work to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. That's when a thriving African American community was destroyed in a horrific act of violence that wiped out hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes. Above, an aerial view of Tulsa, Okla., Fowler & Kelly, 1918. GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Artist's Black Wall Street Project Is About Tulsa 100 Years Ago — And Today
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin studio portrait, 1961 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Photo by Leonard L. Grief, Jr. hide caption
An aerial view of Washington, D.C., shows the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument as well as the U.S. Capitol. Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Alice Neel, Self‑Portrait, 1980 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C/The Estate of Alice Neel hide caption
A rendering of new signage designed for the National Gallery of Art. Pentagram/National Gallery of Art hide caption
Album Leaf of Flowers and Insects, bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia, 1985.904.6 Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College/Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum hide caption
Brood X Is Back — But Cicadas Have Been In Chinese Art For Millennia
