A trio of finger-painting robot dogs share star billing with Yoko Ono and fashion house Schiaparelli in the blockbuster NGV Triennial, featuring more than 100 artists from around the world.
Tapestry From the UN – The United Nations has returned a tapestry replica of Picasso’s
Guernica to the Rockefeller family, which loaned it to the UN headquarters in New York back in 1985. The 25-foot-long replica that hung outside the security council chamber was commissioned by the Rockefellers in the 1950s, and has been returned on request to its current owner, Nelson Rockefeller, Jr. (
UK and Irish Galleries Reach Truce Over Collection – London’s National Gallery and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin have ended a century-long dispute over the ownership of 39 masterpieces by artists including Manet and Degas. Irish collector Hugh Lane officially bequeathed the works to the London institution but changed his mind before his death and decided he wanted them to remain in Ireland. Now, per a new 10-year partnership agreement, both institutions will work together to care for and display the works on rotation. (