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Attendance to History Museums Plummeted Nearly 70% in 2020
Those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it.
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Have You Noticed There’s a Paint Shortage?
The art industry has been facing material shortages driven by COVID-19 and climate disaster.
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Google Doodle Celebrates Late We:wa, Zuni Two-Spirit Weaver and Potter
On the first day of Native American Heritage Month, an interactive "Doodle" by Mallery Quetawki greets visitors on Google's homepage.
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MoMA Trustee Leon Black Files Defamation Suit Against Woman Who Accused Him of Abuse and Harassment
The financier and former MoMA chairman was revealed to have close business and personal ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Cat Lovers Rank Felines by Beauty Using Golden Ratio
The staff at All About Cats measured the facial proportions of 46 of the best-known cat breeds. But why does it feel wrong?
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At Art Toronto, a Third of Galleries Are Showing Indigenous Artists
"There was no call out to galleries to submit any specific work, only to submit their best work," said fair director Mia Nielsen.
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Tufts Auctions Student and Alumni Artworks to Benefit Financial Aid Programming
The offerings include current students, as well as Tufts alumni like Wangechi Mutu and Sol LeWitt.
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Responding to Pressure From Cambodia, Met Museum Reviews Suspected Looted Artifacts
An investigation by the Cambodian government flagged 45 “highly significant” items in the museum's collection as looted.
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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
“Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants—11.3 per 1,000 black babies, compared with 4.9 per 1,000 white babies, according to the most recent government data—a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery, when mos
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Laura Wexler: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
In 1850, when Dr. Robert W. Gibbes commissioned J. T. Zealy to make daguerreotypes of persons held in slavery in and around Columbia, South Carolina, for Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz to use in support of his theory that African people were a separate species, daguerreotypes were at the height of
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Brian Wallis: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
The ownership of images has a long and nuanced legal history, which has evolved dramatically in recent years as cultural standards and photographic technologies have rapidly advanced
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Stephen Sheehi: An Endorsement of an Amicus Brief for Lanier v. Harvard
Renty and his daughter Delia. Renty was an enslaved African, kidnapped from the Congo, sold and forced into slave labor on the South Carolina plantation of B.F. Taylor