• News

Jodie Foster to Direct Film Based on Infamous 1911 ‘Mona Lisa’ Theft

The movie will be based on a 1981 book recounting the crime.

• By
  Tessa Solomon
• Jan 30, 2020 3:49 pm

• Retrospective

‘Very Lively, Very Punchy’: A Leonardo da Vinci Expert on Salvador Dalí’s ARTnews Essay About the Artist

Can the essay be taken seriously as a historical contribution? Martin Kemp responds.

• By
  Alex Greenberger
• Oct 23, 2019 12:59 pm

• Retrospective

Salvador Dalí on Why People Attack Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa,’ in 1963: From the Archives

The artist addressed why people felt inclined to attack or deface the painting throughout history.

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Oct 23, 2019 12:59 pm

• News

Theft! Forgery! Murder!: Art History’s Greatest Crimes

From the earliest moments of recorded civilization there have been instances of art being the subject of violence, theft, and destruction. Art and crime will forever be linked, and this should come…

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• May 3, 2016 2:42 pm

• News

Morning Links: Living Mona Lisa Edition

A group of French technicians and artists created a really creepy “Living Mona Lisa” that can respond to her surroundings and emote, because this is exactly what you asked for. [artnet News] Despite…

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Jul 13, 2015 8:44 am

• Retrospective

Retrospective: When Mona Lisa Went Back to Italy

And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Dec 4, 2013 8:00 am

• News

Anonymous No More: Bringing Contemporary Tibetan Art to the U.S.

A groundbreaking museum exhibition features surprisingly candid artworks from a society in conflict and change

• By
  Stephanie Strasnick
• Sep 12, 2013 7:00 am

• Retrospective

She Has a Hot Smile: Dalí on the Mona Lisa Attacks

And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago

• By
  The Editors of ARTnews
• Mar 19, 2013 6:00 am

• Features

Captured This Week

In Captured This Week, Art in America takes a look at art by culling the collections of Flickr photographers from around the world. This week we look as far-off as Long Island City, Queens…

• By
  AiA Staff
• Aug 12, 2009 2:03 pm

• News

Carried Away with the Mona Lisa

In the 1970s, writer and filmmaker Joe Medeiros was reading up on Leonardo da Vinci when a sentence in Liana Bortolon's book The Life and Times of Leonardo caught his eye. It mentioned the infamous…

• By
  Laurie Hurwitz
• Jan 1, 2009 12:00 am