News

French Experts Doubt Practicality of Bayeux Tapestry Loan

While news of the loan has been widely reported, conservation experts are concerned the promise just can't be fulfilled because of the state of the artifact.

Announcement

Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University Now Accepting Applications

All MFAs receive full tuition waivers, 24-hour access studio space, and graduate assistantships.

Books

A Trove of Dadaist Fun Is Reissued

As part of the Dada centennial celebrations, Ugly Duckling Presse has published a 1000-copy, boxed-set, limited-edition facsimile of the two editions of The Blind Man, called The Blind Man: New York Dada, 1917.

In Brief

Hobby Lobby Turns Over 245 More Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq

Last year, the craft store chain agreed to hand over 5,548 antiquities that it had improperly imported.

Books

An Artist Repatriates the Body of Julia Pastrana, an Indigenous Mexican Woman Exhibited as a “Freak”

A new book chronicles how artist Laura Anderson Barbata led the repatriation and burial of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century indigenous Mexican woman exhibited in life and death for her excessive hair.

News

Art Movements

This week in art news: More women shared allegations of sexual misconduct by Chuck Close, a Christie’s employee and former CIA officer was arrested, and a Frank Lloyd Wright building was demolished.

Art

Mary Heilmann Disrupts the Rigid Systems of Abstraction

Heilmann’s paintings gleefully haunt those artworks which make claims on purity, autonomy, or clarity.

News

"If Things Were Going Well, We Wouldn’t Be Here": Artists Protest NYC's Loft Board

Despite a promise from Mayor de Blasio that he would defend them, New York City's loft tenants feel more vulnerable than ever and are taking their concerns to the board charged with helping them.

Art

How Photography Developed Argentina's Modern Identity

An illuminating exhibition at the Getty reveals how photography created and perpetuated a national imaginary in Argentina.

Film

Black Mirror's "Black Museum" Episode Is a Revenge Fantasy That Comes Up Short

In this popular episode, we're presented with a symbolic reckoning against a system that remains unscathed.

Art

Is Art Museum Attendance Declining Across the US?

There are signs that attendance in many museums across the country is slowly falling, but the reasons why are still to be determined.

News

Dennis Oppenheim Sculpture Is Destroyed After City Officials Claim It Has “No Artistic Value” [UPDATED]

One of the last works designed by artist Dennis Oppenheim was destroyed in South Korea after the city of Busan claimed that the artwork was an "eyesore."