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This Is What the World's First Travel Guide Looks Like
This first edition of the 15th-century book Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam features the first accurate printed illustrations of Jerusalem and Venice, among other cities.
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Activists Crash Private Party at the Museum of Modern Art to Demand Prison Divestment
The protesters gathered outside the museum to call on MoMA and its board member Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, to divest themselves from private prison companies.
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Artist Pravin Mishra Files Defamation Lawsuit Against His Sexual Assault Accuser in India
Pravin Mishra has filed civil defamation charges against an independent journalist, following a number of similar suits as the #MeToo movement grows in India.
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Week in Review: Hundreds March in Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Fatal Accident at the Brooklyn Museum
Also, the Museum of the Bible will return allegedly stolen biblical fragments, the Brooklyn Museum is trying to sell a Francis Bacon painting that the artist wanted destroyed, and more.
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Enwonwu Painting Found in Family Home After 40 Years Sells for $1.4 Million
Plus, one of the largest private collections of African quilts finds a home, and the Louvre has secured its loan for Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man."
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Brooklyn Museum Is Trying to Sell a Francis Bacon Painting the Artist Wanted Destroyed
During his lifetime, Bacon wrote the museum that "It was a throw-out and it depresses me […] that it has years later found its way onto the art market and I would prefer if it were not exhibited."
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Desert X Funder Pulls Out in Protest of Saudi Collaboration
| The Los Angeles Times reported that the MaddocksBrown Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that was one of Desert X’s early donors, announced that it will withdraw funding from the organization. Read the full story here [https://hyperallergic.com/521537/three-desert-x-board-members-resign-in-
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Photojournalist Saves Teenage Boy From Attack After Ukrainian LGBTQ Pride Parade
“A group of more than ten adult men surrounded a boy of maybe 14 to 16 years old and started to punch him laying on the ground when [Gleb] Garanich intervened,” Andrew Kravchenko, another photographer, told Hyperallergic.
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Hundreds March from American Museum of Natural History to Metropolitan Museum for Anti-Columbus Day Tour
For its fourth annual Anti-Columbus Day Tour, Decolonize This Place reiterated its demands that AMNH remove its controversial statue of Theodore Roosevelt
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Week in Review: Die-In at Purdue Bankruptcy Hearing, Artists Demand MoMA Divest From Private Prisons
Also, three members of Desert X’s board of directors stepped down after it announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia, an artist was arrested while selling art in Washington Square Park, and more.
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Over 200 Artists and Scholars Urge MoMA and Board Member to Divest from Private Prison Companies
Hal Foster, Andrea Fraser, and Tania Bruguera have signed the letter released by New Sanctuary Coalition.
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Artist Tackled, Pepper-Sprayed, and Arrested While Selling Art in Washington Square Park
Oriel Ceballos was arrested for not using a table to display his artwork at the park.