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LA to Distribute $26M to Arts Nonprofits
Applications are now open for Creative Recovery LA, a new initiative focused on arts organizations hardest hit by the pandemic.
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Washington Heights Graffiti Tunnel Completely Whitewashed
Advocates say the art was “emblematic of the tunnel" and that city agencies did not warn the community before painting over it.
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Creative Capital Grants Fund Basket-Weaving Robots and More
Grantees of this year’s “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” award, announced today, will each receive $50,000 in unrestricted funds.
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How Sepideh Moafi’s Golden Globe Dress Honors Iran’s Protest Art
Artist Milad Ahmadi hand-painted the vinyl red poppy flower to commemorate the lives lost since the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini.
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University Shutters Exhibition Featuring Klan Figures
Several students of color at Arkansas Tech deemed Dominique Simmons’s artworks “racially insensitive.”
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Art Collective Ousted From Viennese Kunsthalle Speaks Out
“We wanted Kunsthalle Wien to address multiple Viennas, not just the old established one,” said What, How & for Whom, whose contract at the institution was not renewed.
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Orlando Museum of Art on Probation After Disputed Basquiat Show
The American Alliance of Museums’s sanction comes after the FBI raided the museum and seized 25 disputed paintings.
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Native Leaders Object to Sale of Little Bighorn Artifacts
Among the 479 items listed in the Guns of History Auction in Las Vegas were several Lakota objects.
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Jammie Holmes and José Parlá Named Gordon Parks Foundation Fellows
Art historian and scholar Melanee C. Harvey was chosen as the Genevieve Young Fellow in Writing.
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The New MLK Sculpture Is Officially a Meme
The Daily Show and hundreds on social media roasted Hank Willis Thomas’s tribute to Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King in Boston.
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Stolen Elaine de Kooning Work Found in Colorado Hotel Room
Boulder authorities also uncovered stolen guns, drugs, and work by artist Jane Freilicher.
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Chicago Museum Payroll Manager Accused of Stealing $2M
Michael Maurello, former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago, continued his scheme for over a decade before he was caught.