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Climate Activists Crash Christie’s Auction in New York
“No art on a dead planet,” they chanted, demanding an end to fossil fuels.
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Activists Take to Guggenheim Museum to Denounce Israeli Airstrikes
The museum temporarily closed its doors after a group dropped banners depicting Palestinians grieving over the bodies of dead children.
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Christie’s Pulls Paintings by Lebanese Artist After “Complaints”
"I did not expect this decision from Christie’s, as they have previously sold similar works of mine," artist Ayman Baalbaki told Hyperallergic.
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Hundreds of Columbia Students Walk Out in Support of Gaza
Citing the “unauthorized action,” the school suspended the Columbia chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, two advocacy groups.
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Activists Rally at New York Times HQ to Call Out Gaza Coverage
Artists and writers including Nan Goldin and Eileen Myles handed out copies of a “New York Crimes” broadsheet and urged the paper to support a ceasefire.
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Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now Fully Digitized
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
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Agnes Martin Gold-Leaf Painting Fetches $19M, Setting Record
Sotheby’s sale of Emily Fisher Landau’s collection also achieved the second-highest prize for a Picasso, but there weren’t too many surprises.
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Pistachio Billionaires Accused of Artwashing California’s Water Crisis
Museum donors Lynda and Stewart Resnick’s orchards in California’s Central Valley reportedly use more water than all the homes in LA combined.
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Washington Post Takes Down Offensive Anti-Palestinian Cartoon
The drawing by conservative cartoonist Michael Ramirez was widely criticized as “racist” and “orientalist.”
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Artists Decry Company’s Decision to Pull Mass Incarceration Billboards
Titled 8 x 5 Houston in reference to the minimum required square footage of a jail cell in Texas, the project featured designs by formerly incarcerated artists.
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New Haven Mural Honors Prison Abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The community-led artwork also spotlights the city’s continued advocacy for racial and economic justice.
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Averting Strike, Brooklyn Museum Union Ratifies First Contract
The union secured wage increases and other wins just a day before a planned strike deadline and amid an ongoing unfair labor practices complaint.