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In Its First UK Action, PAIN Sackler Holds "Die-in" at the V&A
Warning of "toxic philanthropy," activists gathered in the museum's Sackler Courtyard, honoring the five people who die every day in the UK from opioid overdoses.
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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Focus Their Attention on a LAXART Board Member
Since 2016, Olivia Marciano has served as the Foundation’s Artistic Director and is today a board member at the arts nonprofit LAXART. Former employees are demanding she speak up.
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Week in Review: Jeff Koons's "Bouquet of Tulips," Guerrilla Girls Target MoMA Trustees
Also, a Hyperallergic reporter spent a night with Yayoi Kusama's biggest fans, Marciano Art Foundation employees protest the abrupt closure of the institution, and more.
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First Keith Haring Mural to Go to Auction Fetches $3.8M at Bonhams
Also, Umberto Boccioni’s "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913/1972) fetched $16.2M, and Ed Ruscha's "Hurting the Word Radio #2" (1964) sold for an unbelievable $52.5M.
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A Journalist's Citizenship Is Revoked Months After Criticizing the Indian Prime Minister
More than 260 leading writers, journalists, and artists signed a PEN America letter calling on the Indian government to reverse its decision to rescind a citizenship document for Aatish Taseer. Signatories include Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Christiane Amanpour.
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Guerrilla Girls Target MoMA Trustees With Ties to Jeffrey Epstein in an Ad Takeover
After posting about Leon Black and Glenn Dubin's alleged connections to the sex offender online, Guerrilla Girls partnered with Art in Ad Places to send a message to the museum.
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A Night With Yayoi Kusama's Die-hard, Selfie-taking Fans
Our reporter visited the public opening of Yayoi Kusama's new exhibition at David Zwirner to ask fans why they’d waited hours for a 30-second glimpse at one of her world-famous infinity rooms.
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Jeff Koons's "Bouquet of Tulips" Vandalized
| On Thursday, November 7, Paris police reported a graffiti tag sprayed in red on the sculpture's bronze plaque. The graffiti read, "11 Trous du c …," which can translate to “11 Holes of the butt …” The city of Paris, which owns the sculpture, has sent a special cleaning crew to quickly remove the t
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Invoking "Climate Emergency," National Galleries of Scotland Will End Ties With British Petroleum
The gallery follows in the footsteps of Tate, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Berliners Tried to Send Trump a Piece of the Berlin Wall to Suggest Walls Don’t Work
A German nonprofit inscribed a message to the United States President, sending it to Washington on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Marciano Art Foundation Workers Protest Mass Layoffs and Sudden Shuttering of the Museum
Around 50 workers assembled to protest the foundation’s announcement that it would be laying off its visitor services staff and shuttering its doors to the public. These developments came only days after a group of employees made public their decision to unionize.
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"Anuses on Stems"? Parisians React to Jeff Koons's Gift to the City
Our reporter spoke with Parisians and tourists to hear their opinion of the artist's controversial gift to the city, a monumental "Bouquet of Tulips."