Fondant, pie crust, and icing are the chosen mediums of the Blanton Museum’s annual bake-off, which asks competitors to recreate collection artworks as cakes.
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Is the Orlando Museum of Art Displaying Fake Basquiats?
The FBI is investigating the authenticity of works that are said to have been found in the storage unit of a Hollywood screenwriter.
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NY District Attorney’s Office Seizes Allegedly Looted Antiquities From the Met
The five ancient Egyptian works, worth over $3M, may be tied to an international trafficking ring.
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African American Museum to Open in Former Slave Port
The opening date for the museum, located at the former site of Gadsden’s Wharf in Charleston, has been anticipated for over two decades.
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150-Year-Old Egg-Laying Mammal Specimens Found at Cambridge Museum
Collected in the late 1800s, the recently rediscovered platypus and echidna specimens were key to demonstrating that mammals could lay eggs.
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Vandals Graffiti Documenta Exhibition Space of Palestinian Artist Group
The show’s curators called it “a politically motivated threat” toward the artist collective The Question of Funding, members of whom have been the target of antisemitism accusations.
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“Too Many Bros”: In Prank, NFT Dating App Shuts Down Over Lack of Women
The joke reflects crypto’s larger gender inequity problem.
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The Precarious Lives of Freelance Photographers on the Frontlines
Underpaid and under-resourced, funding their own equipment and health insurance, freelance photojournalists are barely hanging on — and risking their lives.
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Man Smears Mona Lisa With Cake at the Louvre
“Think of the planet,” said the vandal, who claimed to be a climate activist and was disguised as a woman in a wheelchair.
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Montpelier CEO Resigns As Descendants of Enslaved People Get a Seat at the Table
Leadership at the former plantation of James Madison was accused of terminating workers who advocated for descendants.
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Months After Opening, LA’s Academy Museum Workers Move to Unionize
Staff cited wage discrepancies, allegedly inadequate responses to COVID-19 outbreaks, and being asked to do work outside their job description.
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American Museum of Natural History Workers Vote to Unionize
Workers told Hyperallergic that they were tired of meager pay and a lack of job security.