Tag: Mural
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Carol Bove Just Revealed a Miró Mural Typically Hidden in the Guggenheim’s Walls
Carol Bove‘s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum show in New York may be billed as a retrospective, but it’s not a solo show in the traditional sense: it also features works by a range of artists interspersed throughout. In fact, the crown jewel of the show is not a sculpture by Bove but a mural by Joan read more
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Judy Baca Denies Misusing $5M Grant for Iconic LA Mural
News The LA Times reported that 10 employees accused the activist and artist of using funds from a Mellon Foundation grant for personal benefit. Judy Baca at the LACMA Art+Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 1, 2025 (photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic via Getty Images) Activist and painter Judy Baca, best read more
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LA Artist Judy Baca Accused of Misusing Funds For Historic Mural, French President Stung by Louvre Chaos: Morning Links for February 26, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines CRACKS IN THE WALL. Ten former employees, including two managers, who worked on The Great Wall of Los Angeles public collaborative mural, allege the revered Chicano artist Judy Baca has been misusing millions of dollars in grants.Shedesigned and leads the project, and the read more
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Saudi Arabia Commissions Giant Mural the Size of 9 Football Fields
Saudi Arabia commissioned Domingo Zapata to paint what’s being called the largest mural ever created—at a size, as the New York Post’s “Page Six” put it, of 540,000 square feet, or about nine football fields. The New York–based Zapata—who the Post notes “has painted stars including Kim Kardashian and Sofia Vergara, and painted with the read more
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South Carolina Artist Wins $158K in Copyright Infringement Case Over Mural
A judge in U.S. District Court in South Carolina has awarded local artist Todd Atkinson $158,400 in a copyright infringement case against artist Chan Shepherd and the owner of the building on which Atkinson’s mural was originally painted. Atkinson painted the mural, of a train and a water tank, with the words “Water Tank” in read more
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Leonardo da Vinci Mural Will Be On View in Milan During Olympics
When the Winter Olympics begin in Italy next month, a mural by Leonardo da Vinci in the midst of restoration will go on view for five weeks staring February 7. That means visitors to Milan not preoccupied with sports like figure-skating and luge can set their eyes on an unfinished painting on the ceiling and read more
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40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural
Features Since 1986, the 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, with Don Miller’s “King Mural” (photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) Washington, DC — Last month, DC-based read more
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