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Former Ringling Trustees Decry “Catastrophic” Proposal to Transfer Museum
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis wants to hand the institution over to the New College of Florida, which has recently undergone a significant right-wing transformation.
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Newly Released Footage Shows Theft of 18-Karat Golden Toilet
The $6.1 million artwork by Maurizio Cattelan was stolen from the Blenheim Palace in England in September 2019.
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Artists Say Goodbye to Joann as Craft Stores Shutter Permanently
After two bankruptcy filings, the beloved fabric and art supplies company was acquired by a retail liquidator that will cease all operations.
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Brooklyn Museum Workers Rally Against Layoffs Outside Benefit Dinner
The museum's unions are protesting the sweeping staff cuts that impacted 47 employees after the institution announced a $10M budget deficit.
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Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston’s Legacy
The artist sits down with Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian and critic John Yau to discuss his work, which brings together Guston’s notorious KKK figures with his own host of comic characters to confront white supremacy.
Opinion
Notes From a Post-DEI Art World
Even if DEI dies, arts organizations should still move toward the accessibility that has always been at the core of the effort. Here’s how.
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Gertrude Abercrombie’s American Surrealism
Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work.
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Benny Andrews Painted the Textures of Life
Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots.
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Elizabeth Street Garden Sues NYC Amid Eviction Battle
A new lawsuit argues that the Manhattan sculpture garden is a unique artwork protected by the Visual Artists Rights Act.
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Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective Coming to San Francisco
An exhibition at the Legion of Honor is billed as the first to explore the artist’s “reinterpretations” of works by his artistic influences.
Opinion
An Artist’s Dispatches From Luigi Mangione’s Hearing
I showed up at the Manhattan courthouse with my watercolor pencils and paper in hand only to find that everyone wanted “the shot,” and that this work is not for the faint of heart.
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Show on Artists of African Descent Loses Funding Amid Trump DEI Crackdown
The exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, would have featured works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists.