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1,700-Year-Old Penis Graffiti Found at Ancient Roman Site
A stone was carved with a phallus and the words "Secundinus, the shitter."
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Pro-Union Protesters Picket MoMA Gala Honoring Starbucks Chairwoman
As organizing efforts sweep across Starbucks stores nationwide, the company has repeatedly been accused of “union-busting.”
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Artist Paula Rego, Who Focalized Women's Power and Suffering, Dies at 87
Her approach to figuration was influenced by Surrealism and Magical Realism while containing a storybook quality inspired by fairytales and folklore.
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British Geologist Who Took Pottery Shards From Iraqi Site Gets 15-Year Sentence
Jim Fitton was found guilty of smuggling antiquities after 12 small pottery shards were found in his luggage at a Baghdad airport.
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Through Art, Texans Memorialize Victims of Uvalde Shooting
From murals to a front-yard installation featuring rows of backpacks, the community is channeling its grief and rage at gun control inaction.
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Donated Hans Hofmann Painting to Fund Social Justice Scholarship at Bennington College
The work, donated by TV and film writer and producer Norman Lear, will be sold to benefit the college’s “Art for Access” program.
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Getty Grants $1.3M to Projects That “Unlock Paper’s Material Secrets”
The LA-based foundation will fund a range of initiatives by curators studying prints, drawings, and other forms of graphic art.
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The Met Hosts an Exhibition of Employees' Art, Open to the Public for the First Time
More than 450 workers at the museum contributed works to the beloved exhibition, from security guards and technicians to librarians, registrars, and volunteers.
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140+ Documenta Artists and Organizers Denounce “Racist Attacks” Following Vandalism
The German contemporary art show has been plagued by accusations of antisemitism for its inclusion of artists who denounce Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
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Indiana Museum Apologizes for Offering a “Juneteenth Watermelon Salad”
The watermelon is associated with a painful history of racist tropes against Black Americans.
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1,300-Year-Old Mayan Corn God Head Discovered in Mexico
The finding was part of an offering placed on a pond, thought to replicate the entrance to the underworld.
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$2M Gold Tabernacle Stolen From Brooklyn Church
Also, an angel statue was decapitated and the eucharist thrown over the altar.