Art
The Curator Archiving Gun Violence Through Art
Seven years after Susanne Slavick's exhibition Unloaded, the curator continues to update a Facebook page dedicated to artworks and texts that examine the impact and proliferation of firearms.
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Whistleblower Group Seeks to Stop Re-Accreditation of Detroit Institute of Arts
In a missive to the American Alliance of Museums, the nonprofit legal organization Whistleblower Aid said the museum does not meet criteria for accreditation, citing "race- and gender-based hiring” and a culture of retaliation, among other issues.
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Documenta Controversy Continues as Hito Steyerl Withdraws Work
The artist cited the organizers' handling of antisemitism allegations and the ensuing fallout. Meron Mendel, head of the Anne Frank Educational Institute in Frankfurt, stepped down from his position as a consultant for the exhibition.
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Play EmilyBlaster, a Computer Game Based on Emily Dickinson's Poetry
The game instructs players to recreate the poet’s starkish, rhyming prose by shooting at moving words from a fixed point, with hilarious results.
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Guggenheim Museum Director Richard Armstrong to Step Down
Armstrong, a controversial figure at the institution, held the position for over 14 years.
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Queer Arts Space Cancels Documenta Programming After Harassment Incidents
The New Delhi-based gallery and performance space Party Office wants Documenta to offer a public apology after artists reported incidents of racism and transphobic harassment in Kassel.
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Hagia Sophia’s Marble Floors Suffer "Tremendous Damage,” Reports Say
Images circulating online appear to show cracked and damaged floors caused by heavy cleaning machinery used at the historic structure.
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Explosion Destroys Mysterious Georgia Doomsday Monument
The “Georgia Guidestones” attracted thousands of annual visitors and drew the ire of conservatives and conspiracists who deemed them “satanic.”
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Another Dinosaur Skeleton Hits the Auction Block
Sotheby’s is offering the first Gorgosaurus to ever go under the hammer, even as some critics find sales of dinosaur fossils appalling.
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Black Artist Attacked in White Supremacist March in Boston
Musician and activist Charles Murrell said he was assaulted by members of Patriot Front on his way to work.
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Philadelphia Faces Criticism for Commissioning a Harriet Tubman Statue From a White Artist
“Nana Harriet risked life and limb to be free so that no one White person would benefit off her person. And now we have someone white benefiting off of her,” said artist Maisha Sullivan-Ongoza.
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Richmond Police Admit to Tear-Gassing Peaceful Protesters at Robert E. Lee Monument
The police department retracted its previous claims that demonstrators were “violent” as part of a settlement in a lawsuit lodged by six protesters who were tear-gassed by officers in June 2020.