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A Florida Prisoner Made a Full Documentary on a Secret Cell Phone
The Miami Herald has obtained extensive, disturbing footage of daily life inside a Florida prison, all captured by inmate Scott Whitney over four years.
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“We Feel Very Betrayed": Community Protests Replacement for J. Marion Sims Monument
Local stakeholders from the Beyond Sims Committee objected to a vote by a panel of judges appointed by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Fight Over Divisive Mural Escalates as George Washington High School Alumni File Lawsuit
Recently, the school board voted to conceal Victor Arnautoff’s “The Life of George Washington,” which critics call a racist depiction of Native Americans and enslaved people.
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Vatican Unveils New Sculpture as Homage to Refugees
“Angels Unaware” by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz shows 140 migrants in a refugee boat and is now on view in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square.
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Kara Walker Satirizes Britain's Public Sculptures with a Monument to Trans-Atlantic Slavery
Kara Walker upends the Tate Modern with a massive fountain, renewing the debate about the nature of public monuments in the heart of violent empire.
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Week in Review: India's #MeToo Movement, New Museum Union Signs Contract
Also, over 50 protestors gathered outside the Ford Foundation’s Manhattan headquarters, and Brooklyn art nonprofit BRIC has awarded 10 under-recognized New York-based artists $10,000 each.
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Getty Museum Acquires Italian Masterworks and the Largest Museum Collection of Photos by Laura Aguilar
Plus, a Banksy painting has set another auction record for the artist, and a trove of archives from the Underground Railroad shine a light on a dark history.
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Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, Kehinde Wiley, and Vinnie Bagwell In the Running for New Central Park Memorial
The artists were selected as finalists to replace a statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th-century doctor who conducted violent surgeries on enslaved Black women.
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Art Handlers Are Unionizing at UOVO, a High-End Art Logistics Company
Workers at the white-glove art logistics company have announced their intention to form a union with Teamsters Local 814 for better healthcare and benefits.
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Anti-Oil Protesters Will Storm the British Museum with a Trojan Horse
BP or not BP? launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a giant Trojan Horse for its largest protest yet, which will coincide with the museum's Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition.
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German Museum Will Give Artist Walid Raad Prize Despite City's Objection
Aachen withdrew its decision to award the Lebanese-American artist a €10,000 (~$10,900) prize for providing an "evasive" answer to an inquiry about his position on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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Art Workers Condemn Ruling Censoring Sexual Assault Allegations Against Subodh Gupta
Dozens call the court order to remove the allegations from Instagram “an outright move to silence the survivors and gag the platform that gave them a voice while protecting their identities.”