Rejection sure is tough, especially when you’re a white applicant vying for a spot in a museum internship program that’s explicitly open only to minority groups.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an MFA student’s sculpture about campus gun laws violated campus gun laws, collector Aby Rosen forked over $7 million in unpaid taxes on art, and the painter of the Donald Trump micropenis portrait was attacked by one of the candidate’s supporters.
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Iranian Cartoonist Atena Farghadani Released from Prison
Today, Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani was released from jail after spending over a year in Tehran’s Evin Prison for her satirical drawing of Iran’s policymakers as animals.
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Cambodia Censors Screening of Film About Slain Environmental Activist
I Am Chut Wutty, a documentary by British filmmaker Fran Lambrick detailing Wutty’s work and tragic death, was set to be shown publicly at Phnom Penh’s Meta House on April 20 — until the authorities had their say.
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The Frick Scores a Trove of 450 Historical Medals
The Frick Collection is adding an impressive cache of metal portraits to its collections.
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Marisol, Innovative Pop Art Sculptor Written Out of History, Dies at 85
Marisol Escobar, whose penetrating and playful, large-scale wooden sculptures were their own unique blend of Pop and folk art, died on Saturday morning, April 30, at the age of 85, El Universal reported.
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Documents Hint at BP’s Undue Influence on UK Museums It Sponsors
A number of major museums in the UK, including the British Museum and National Portrait Gallery, may undergo investigation over claims that oil giant BP had sway over their operations.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a fire gravely damaged New Delhi’s National Museum of Natural History, artist Pyotr Pavlensky invited sex workers to testify at his trial, and Anish Kapoor complained that the addition of Carsten Höller’s slide to his London tower was “foisted” upon him by London Mayor Boris Johnson.
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Artists in Guggenheim Show Urge Museum to Resume Talks on Migrant Rights in Abu Dhabi
In a statement issued today, a group of artists featured in a just-opened exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum expressed disappointment over the Guggenheim Foundation’s decision to break off negotiations with the Gulf Labor Coalition.
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Futuristic Mini-Golf Course in London Will Include Zaha Hadid-Designed Hole
This September, you may be able to perfect your golf swing in the center of Trafalgar Square.
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A Self-Driving Greenhouse Ball Could Be the Future of Urban Gardens
Imagine uprooting your community garden and replanting it inside a motorized geodesic sphere, then letting this sphere roam the city streets of its own volition, using sensors to seek out its plants’ preferred environmental conditions.
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Turn Any Area into a “No Trump” Zone with Printable Street Signs
Last weekend, various streets across the United State became designated Donald Trump-free zones.
