News
Did an Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpture Really Make 17 FBI Agents Sick?
A towering cedar sculpture by the world-renowned artist is being blamed for the hospitalization of over a dozen employees at the FBI's Miami field office.
FBI
In Brief
FBI Warns of ISIS-Looted Artifacts Hitting the US Market
Antiquities looted by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria are entering the art market, prompting the FBI to release a flyer soliciting dealers' and collectors' help in halting illegal trade.
News
FBI Offers Reward for Two Stolen N.C. Wyeth Paintings
Seen any sentimental oil paintings of medieval knights hanging around lately?
News
Sleek New Short by the FBI Warns of Chinese Espionage
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.
News
When Photography Gets You Labeled a Terrorist
It's not news that taking pictures can get you threatened and arrested, but a lawsuit filed this month by the American Civil Liberties Union sheds further light on just how pervasive the government's paranoia over photography has become.
Opinion
Shocker: Sontag FBI File Contains Comic Sans
The Freedom of Information Act request-processing website MuckRock has obtained and published Susan Sontag's Federal Bureau of Investigation file. The document comprises 73 pages of letters and memoranda dating from 1968 through 1972, noting in mind-numbing detail the late intellectual's various app
Art
FBI-Seized Forgeries Get a Gallery Retrospective
In what might be the first-ever exhibition of artworks co-curated by an intelligence agency, a show has been mounted at Fordham University's Center Gallery to showcase some of the finer specimens of forged art seized by the FBI's Art Crimes team.
Interview
Poetry, Immigration and the FBI: The Transborder Immigrant Tool
Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab released the first iteration of the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a mobile-phone technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while leading them to water caches in the Southern Californi