The gift shop at the new Aspen Art Museum is appropriately ritzy, stuffed with pricey silver and gemstone rings by Karl Fritsch. [The Art Newspaper]
A project led by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets focuses on artists who grew up with the World Wide Web. [NYT]
“Young Syrian artists respond to conflict.” [The Art Newspaper]
In Maine, an exhibition on Shaker art and objects. [WSJ]
Spain’s National Heritage office seems to be angling for the Prado to return those masterworks— including Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights—it lent them during the Spanish Civil War. [The Art Newspaper]
Here is a Jed Perl essay in The New Republic that is titled “Liberals Are Killing Art.” [The New Republic]
Meet Cui Ruzhuo, the brash Chinese painter who compares himself to Dali and Picasso and sort of shrugs when an auction house throws a $4 million work of his in the trash. [WSJ]
The Met has made once-beloved but now-forgotten couturier Charles James famous again. [NYT]
