A road trip that encounters all kinds of art from Marfa to El Paso to Vegas.
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LOS ANGELES — Chinese installation artist and activist Wu Yuren, who was arrested on questionable charges last year, has reported on Twitter that as of March 30 the charges have been dropped and that he has received his passport back.
Various news services are reporting that a museum in Italy is waging an “art war” in protest of funding cuts and they’ve started burning 1,000 artworks.
A Brooklyn antiquities dealer Mousa Khouli, 38, pleaded guilty today to smuggling Egyptian cultural property into the United States and making a false statement to law enforcement authorities.
Swedish Minister Caught in "Racist" Food Art Performance [UPDATED: Museum Closed Due to Bomb Threat]
The Swedish culture minister has been widely criticized for participating in the Moderna Museet’s “cake party” featuring Swedish artist Makode Aj Linde “dressed” as a female black African caricature.
After a year of renovations, The Drawing Center will open its doors at 35 Wooster Street on Thursday, September 13, 2012. The $9.6 million expansion gives the non-profit a hearty 9,150 square feet of space for three separate galleries, doubling its previous size.
Everyone hopes that the missing art from the Chelsea Hotel will reappear after the current renovation. But even if it does, there’s no question that the passing of the hotel’s ownership from beloved landlord Stanley Bard to mega-developer Joseph Chetrit marks the end of an era. To celebrate that era, and the Chelsea Hotel tenants who lived through it, four Brooklyn artists have created “This Is My Home: Voices from the Chelsea Hotel,” an audio-accompanied, one-day-only walking tour on April 29.
Club kids (and their art world fans) rejoice! The Museum of Arts and Design’s FUN Fellowships have announced their new round of grantees.
Pioneering publication The BushwickBK is gearing up to relaunch after a roughly six month hiatus, and it is running an awesome Kickstarter to help with their revival.
With artists like Rikrit Tirivanija preparing meals for gallery goers, art lovers are no strangers to food and fine art sharing a dinner plate. But what about concentrating on food itself as an art form? The Umami: Food and Art Festival is a biennial that does just that.
