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Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Federal Grant Requests After Trump DEI Ban
The university museum said it will self-fund an exhibition of African art instead of requesting NEA and NEH funding, which is subject to the president’s anti-DEI mandate.
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Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan Banana Invests $100M in Trump Crypto
Billionaire Justin Sun is the largest holder of the president’s meme coin, which has raised concerns among ethics watchdogs.
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Artists Decry Centre Pompidou’s Cancellation of Caribbean Art Exhibition
Guadeloupean curator Claire Tancons called it a “brutal and shocking” decision and over 100 people signed a letter in protest.
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Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way
Representations of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut on 3,000-year-old coffins shows evidence of the galaxy being accurately represented.
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Bayeux Tapestry to Return to UK After Nearly 1,000 Years
The 230-foot-long embroidered textile, which narrates the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century, will be on display at the British Museum next September.
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Buffalo Museum Cancels Event After Backlash Against Texas Flood Cartoon
Award-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis received death threats for his criticism of the government's reaction to the disaster.
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Shamim M. Momin Is the Bronx Museum’s New Director
The longtime curator and LAND co-founder will assume her role as director and chief curator this September.
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Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway
The internet is up in arms about the art-inspired Vogue shoot, with many lambasting Leibovitz's choice of color and lighting, or lack thereof.
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What Were Federal Agents Doing at a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?
The museum described the surprise visit as a “targeted” attempt to intimidate staff and patrons ahead of a lineup of Latine cultural celebrations.
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Archaeologists Reconstruct Ancient Roman “Jigsaw Puzzle”
The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.
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Penn Museum Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
“Too many of the workers we represent at the Museum struggle to make ends meet,” said the union, which is urging the University of Pennsylvania to increase wages.
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Gao Zhen, Chinese Artist Detained for "Defaming" Mao, Looks Ahead to Trial
A leading human rights lawyer will represent the artist, who faces China’s infamously repressive anti-defamation laws over artworks he created 15 years ago.