Art
A Festival Aims to Foster Justice Through Performance and Collaboration
Just Situations, a 10-day festival and conference at venues in North Brooklyn, features nearly 60 artists and groups prodding participants on politics and performance.
Benjamin Sutton
In Brief
Amsterdam Airbnb Host Shoves South African Filmmaker Down Staircase
Sibahle Nkumbi had gone to the Netherlands to write about an exhibition by the artist Zanele Muholi, who posted a video of the attack on Instagram.
In Brief
Shocking Study of 2,000 Objects in SF’s Mexican Museum Finds 1,917 Are Fake [UPDATED]
The chair of the museum's board of directors fears that as much as half of its 16,500-object collection could turn out to be inauthentic.
Film
In a New Documentary, Errol Morris Turns His Camera on a Polaroid Portraitist
Errol Morris's film about the photographer Elsa Dorfman touches on big questions about cycles of life and obsolescence, but remains doggedly cheerful.
Art
An Exhibition to Mark the End of the Roger Ailes Era
The Roger Ailes Memorial Show: Fair and Balanced at Yours Mine & Ours is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the recently deceased Fox News founder.
News
Study Finds Museum Salaries Are Rising Across the Board, Despite Huge Disparities
While salaries rose by 3% in 2016, museum directors are making about nine times what security guards do, according to the Association of Art Museum Directors.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: George Lucas's museum was greenlit by the Los Angeles City Council, a fire forced Philadelphia art space Vox Populi to close, and a man rammed his car into a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas State Capitol.
Art
16 Manhattan Galleries Host 36 Out-of-Town Art Spaces
Condo New York is a sprawling, collaborative omnibus exhibition spanning spaces in Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Tribeca.
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News
Cease-and-Desist Letter Leaves the McMansion Hell Blog in Purgatory [UPDATED]
Kate Wagner has taken her irreverent architecture criticism blog offline after the online real estate listings aggregator Zillow accused her of violating the company's terms of use.
In Brief
In Surreal Twist, Court Orders Dalí’s Body Exhumed for Paternity Test
A judge in Madrid has ruled that the artist's body must be exhumed in order to carry out a paternity test.
Art
Artists Fill a Lower East Side Building with Murals Before It’s Demolished
Before it's razed, 140 Essex Street is hosting a one-weekend exhibition featuring 10 murals by 10 artists.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the 12th-century Grand Al-Nuri Mosque was destroyed in Mosul, Leonardo DiCaprio handed over Picasso and Basquiat paintings implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund scandal, and an anonymous artist painted bathing suits on Antony Gormley's beach figures.