A strange new spin on the vending machine has cropped up in the city of Grenoble.
News
Posted inNews
South Korea’s Art Community Protests Top Candidate for Museum Directorship After Censorship Fiasco
South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) will very soon have a new director, but the local art community is protesting the top candidate for the position, Bartomeu Marí.
Posted inNews
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: raccoons go on rogue art crawl, artists’ work is trapped after a gallery’s eviction, and a Star Wars print is swiped by Canadians who’ve gone over to the dark side.
Posted inIn Brief
Pussy Riot’s New Music Video Imagines a Refugee Revolt at Banksy’s Dismaland
“Refugees in, Nazis out / Governments here should feel the shame / Fucking liars, you’re to blame,” Pussy Riot sing in their just-released video, “Refugees In.”
Posted inNews
Decrying Real Estate Summit, Artists Stage Demonstration Outside Brooklyn Museum
“Gentrification in progress,” read the tape, its black type printed on yellow strips as all good warnings are.
Posted inIn Brief
1,700-Year-Old Mosaic Unearthed in Israel
Israel Antiquities Authority yesterday unveiled a large, 1,700-year-old mosaic floor featuring intricate patterns and images of animals, uncovered in the city of Lod, about nine miles southeast of Tel Aviv.
Posted inNews
Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Real Estate Summit at Brooklyn Museum
More than 100 activists and artists affiliated with community groups from throughout the city gathered at the Brooklyn Museum this morning to protest its hosting of the 2015 Brooklyn Real Estate Summit.
Posted inNews
Two Crowdfunding Campaigns Aim to Create Art for the Blind
Imagine never being able to see the Mona Lisa, much less understand what people mean when they talk about her enigmatic smile.
Posted inNews
Artists Envision Justice for 2015 Trans Day of Resilience
On November 20, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), communities all over the world will hold memorials for those who lost their lives in 2015 in acts of transphobic violence.
Posted inNews
White Nationalist Artist Charles Krafft Designs Award for Right-Wing Publisher
Artist Charles Krafft is back — and this time, rather than attempting to hide his white nationalist beliefs, he appears to be embracing them.
Posted inIn Brief
The 116 Photos Carl Sagan and NASA Picked to Share With Aliens
Launched in 1977 by NASA, the Golden Record, a copper phonograph LP, was intended to provide a picture of life on planet Earth to any aliens who might encounter the spacecraft
Posted inNews
Discovery in a Cathedral Attic Suggests Birds Are the Best Archivists
Archaeologists restoring a cathedral in Zvenigorod, an old town 40 miles west of Moscow, recently stumbled upon stacks of centuries-old documents hoarded by an unexpected breed of collectors: birds.
