In Brief
Egyptian customs officials in Alexandria have reportedly seized a shipment of 400 copies of the art book Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution, over fears that it might incite rebellion.
Art
OK, full disclosure: I have never been a huge Marsden Hartley fan.
In Brief
Paris City Hall commissioned Vincent Callebaut Architectures to design a series of environmentally beneficial buildings.
Art
A series of ten billboards erected along Interstate 10 in southern New Mexico by the art organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) has provoked suspicion, anxiety, and even outright antagonism.
Art
The youngest of the three Oscar shorts categories, documentary shorts are both the vigorous upstarts and the weary middle-agers, questioning themselves and their creative vision in a productive midlife crisis.
Art
A new report from the Center for the Future of Museums identifies six trends that will shape the ways institutions do business, engage viewers, handle their collections, and renovate their buildings in the years and decades to come.
News
Dutch soccer fans wreaked havoc on Rome over the past two days, damaging a 17th-century fountain designed by Bernini and leaving the city's historic center strewn with trash.
Art
LONDON — Outside The Mosaic Rooms, a small gallery and cultural center in Kensington, a red and white-striped air sock hangs improbably from the otherwise uniform stone façade.
News
This week in art news: The sale of Ai Weiwei's gold-plated zodiac sculptures sets a new auction record for the artist, an artist charged with robbing a bank may get a museum exhibition, and Manhattan's so-called "Flower District" is the new Chelsea ... apparently.
Books
Richard Kraft's Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera explodes off the page.
Interview
Christy Rupp burst onto the New York art scene with "Rat Patrol," a street art response to the sanitation strike of 1979.
Comics
There's always going to be those questions.