Art
Artist Installs Bells Throughout Oakland that Detect Air Pollution
Rosten Woo hopes the bells will help create political pressure about air quality in West Oakland, which is circled by freeways and diesel trucks.
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Protesters Request RISD Museum Return Bronze Sculpture to Nigeria
Students and faculty from the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University held an action today to request a sculpture looted from the Kingdom of Benin be returned. The museum says they have begun conversations with the Nigerian government to return the bronze.
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Whitney Museum Staffers Demand Answers After Vice Chair’s Relationship to Tear Gas Manufacturer Is Revealed
Three days after Hyperallergic published an article detailing the Whitney Museum's connection to the ongoing migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, more than 100 staffers at the Manhattan-based museum have signed a letter demanding that their employers respond to the article's allegations.
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Senegal and Ivory Coast Will Request Large-Scale Return of Artifacts from France
"We are ready to find solutions with France," Senegal's culture minister recently said at a conference in Dakar. "But if 10,000 pieces are identified in the collections, we are asking for all 10,000."
Opinion
A Response to “How Saudi Arabia and US Arts Institutions Partnered on a Cultural Diplomacy Offensive”
I am writing to contest Rijin Sahakian’s characterization of the artist-led organizations I helped to build from the ground up.
Art
Stark Photos of a Louisiana Prison that Was Once a Slave Plantation
Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US.
Art
The Women Who Modeled for Édouard Manet, from Artists to Lovers
An introduction to six of the women who modeled for the masterpieces that earned Manet his canonical reputation.
News
Week in Review: Renoir Stolen from Vienna Auction House, Leaning Tower of Pisa Slowly Tilts Upright
Also, Indigenous artifacts are pulled from auction in Boston following protests, a famous stretch of Berlin Wall is saved from developers, and more.
Podcast
Didier William on Painting a Revolution
In his large two-part exhibition, the queer Haitian-American artist centers the body, which figures in his work both literally and figuratively.
News
Getty Museum Acquires Previously Unknown Metsys Painting, and Ancient Mosaic Tiles Returned to Turkey
Plus, the San Antonio Museum of Art received over 850 photographs, and works of Chinese art sell at major Hong Kong auctions.
Art
Understanding the Migrant Caravan in the Context of Imperial Plunder and Dispossession
The publication of Felwine Sarr and Benedicte Savoy’s report recommending the restitution of stolen African objects and the approach of what is called a “migrant caravan” toward the US is not a coincidence.
Announcement
Explore the Chaos of the Visual World: A Call for Graduate Applications to the University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo Department of Art invites applications to its MFA in Studio Art and the MA in Visual Studies.