Art
How a Photographer Helped a Georgia Town Desegregate Its Proms
Documentary photographers sometimes wonder what kind of impact their work has, but Gillian Laub knows hers has inspired real change.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: vandals attack San Francisco mural of same-sex couples, a jailed banker's Basquiat gets repatriated, and an artist's gunshot performance gets his Swiss gallery in trouble.
News
Manhattan's Last Natural Vista Will Be Protected
The unbroken vista of cliffs and trees on the New Jersey Palisades will be preserved after LG Electronics agreed to redesign their headquarters in a settlement with conservation groups.
Opinion
What Should Be Done with the US's Many Confederate Monuments?
Yesterday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol.
Art
ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a multimedia shadow play at a historic railway station, a poetry reading by a punk pioneer, a meditation walk in remembrance of those lost to AIDS, and much more.
News
European Copyright Reform Could Restrict Photography in Public Spaces
Restrictions on photographing or filming copyrighted art, architecture, or other objects in public might get stricter in the European Union.
Books
Publisher of Small-Format Comics Gives Emerging Authors a Big Break
At just 24 pages, each comic in British publisher Nobrow's 17x23 series is designed to be an accessible gateway for readers to discover emerging authors, and for those authors to create what is often their first print publication.
Art
Lessons from 30 Years of NYC's Percent for Art Program
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jorge Luis Rodriguez’s “Growth” and the public art program that initiated its creation.
Art
Another Treasure Lost in Iraq: The Story of Mar Behnam Monastery
Among the most tragic losses of the many antiquities destroyed in Iraq by ISIS has been the destruction of Iraq's seriously understudied medieval architecture.
Art
Modernist Male Art Is Timeless, but Not Timely
PARIS — According to Sigmund Freud, a key that opens a room in a dream is unmistakably phallic.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, activism is the theme, with an exhibition centered on musical resistance, another featuring political posters, and a conference devoted to helping artists find and keep affordable workspaces.
In Brief
Parisian Mural Successfully Provokes Right-Wing Vandals
A mural by the French street artist Combo in Paris has become the target of far-right vandals, including one nationalist blogger who filmed herself tagging the mural with the message, "Antiracism is a codeword for antiwhite."