News
On Tuesday morning civil rights lawyer Ronald Kuby and NYC Park Advocates president Geoffrey Croft held a press conference in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park demanding the return of the sculpture bust of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden that three artists illegally installed there last week.
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: Castle manager disappears 58 paintings, art thief returns loot to restaurant, opera company sells bronze sculpture for scrap.
In Brief
The Google Cultural Institute, known for empowering internauts to Street View their way through museums and look very, very closely at digitized two-dimensional artworks, has ventured into the third dimension.
In Brief
The board of trustees of the Cooper Union has offered not to renew the contract of the school's current president, Jamshed Bharucha, if it would help bring an end to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into the university's management.
Art
A golden reindeer gallops across a vast checkerboard while a grotesque UFO flies overhead.
Art
As an increasingly globalized monoculture takes hold, people often resort to using celebrities and innovators as their barometers of success.
Interview
It's been six months since the People's Climate March took over the streets of Manhattan, but the group behind some of the rally's most iconic artworks is busier than ever.
News
After an unauthorized sculpture bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was installed and quickly removed in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park, the Illuminator shone a ghostly version onto its empty pedestal.
News
On this week’s art crime blotter: Russians rob Pierre Soulages, another dog sculpture scampers off, antiquities dealer busted selling loot, and more.
Art
From 18th-century dollhouses and contemporary architectural maquettes to ancient Egyptian reliquary artifacts, taking pleasure from peering down on diminutive worlds seems to be a universal human delight.
In Brief
A video uploaded to YouTube on Friday, purportedly by ISIS, shows men using sledgehammers, pickaxes, and rifles to destroy sculptures at the Hatra archaeological site.
In Brief
In the wee hours of Monday morning, three artists and a team of helpers illegally installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park.