Art
Preserving the Art of Palestinian Taṭrīz 76 Years After the Nakba
An online archive of digitized patterns features more than 1,000 motifs pertaining to the traditional embroidery art form.
Maya Pontone
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Is Maurizio Cattelan’s Latest Work a Copy?
Cattelan's new installation of gold panels punctured by bullets resembles works that artist Anthony James has been making since 2011.
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Art Students and Faculty Rally for Palestine at Cooper Union
The action drew connections between the student mobilization for Gaza and the Free Cooper Union movement in 2011.
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All-Women Show Considers Becoming a Bathroom to Exclude Male Visitors
Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is considering turning it into a toilet — or a bible study.
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Providence College Cancels Exhibition Over "Anti-Catholic" Artwork
Artist Shey "Ri Acu" Rivera Ríos has received an outpouring of support from faculty and students after their work was deemed “sacrilegious.”
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Courbet’s Famous Painting of a Vulva Tagged With “MeToo”
"The Origin of the World" was one of several artworks targeted in a performance by artist Deborah De Robertis at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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Police Arrest Dozens Protesting for Gaza at Art Institute of Chicago
The demonstrators symbolically renamed the school “The People’s Art Institute.”
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Students Stage Sit-In for Gaza at NYC’s School of Visual Arts
More than 50 protesters including students from the Fashion Institute of Technology and NYU rallied in support outside the school.
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Billions in Debt Forgiven for Students of Defunct Art Institutes
The shuttered art school network was accused of defrauding and misleading its students.
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Artifacts Looted 80 Years Ago Repatriated to Okinawa
The scrolls, pottery, and a 19th-century hand-drawn map were presumably looted from the Japanese island in the final days of World War II.
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Students Rename Columbia Building in Honor of 6-Year-Old Killed in Gaza
Over 100 people were arrested at the Morningside campus after Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied Hamilton Hall, now baptized “Hind’s Hall.”
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Israel Strike on Gaza Church Was a War Crime, Says Human Rights Group
A new filing asks the International Criminal Court to investigate the destruction of the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church last fall.