News
Salvador Dalí's Tarot Cards Will Tell Your Surreal Future
The deck was originally created for the 1970s James Bond film Live and Let Die, starring Roger Moore and Jane Seymour, but it never appeared in the picture.
News
News
Tenants of Downtown LA Art Colony Face Evictions, But Might Have the Law on Their Side
The city recently passed two new measures beefing up renters’ protections, and the artists facing displacement are taking full advantage of the law.
News
Polish Art Community Rebuffs Ministry of Culture's Controversial Choice for a Museum Director
After ousting the previous director, the ministry plans to hire a new director without the customary open call process. The nominee, Piotr Bernatowicz, has been accused of misogyny and anti-Semitism.
News
Dozens of Museums Will Be Filled With Feminist Art Ahead of US Presidential Election
The Feminist Art Coalition has coordinated with museums nationwide to display feminist art in anticipation of the 2020 election.
News
Coco Fusco Casts Trump as a Heartless Tin Man
Contentious relations between the United States and China underscore the display of Fusco's "Tin Man of the Twenty-First Century" at the Anren Biennale in China's Sichuan province.
News
Nazi Memorabilia Slated for Exhibition Are Mostly Modern Forgeries, Experts Say
Many of the objects, which were slated for an exhibition at the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, had multiple misspellings in German, misused or wrongly contextualized National Socialist symbols, and errors in the names of Nazi-era institutions.
News
Week in Review: Keith Haring "Crack Is Wack" Mural Refurbished, Artist Withdraws Work from MoMA PS1
Also, art workers at UOVO lost their union vote by a margin of three votes, 800 musicians have signed an open letter pledging to boycott all Amazon festivals and events, and more.
News
Irving Penn's 1948 Vogue Photograph of Peruvian Children Sells for Over $93,000
Plus, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security returned a marble head of the god Pan to Italy, and the most expensive Pokemon card of all time has sold.
News
NYC Culture Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl Resigns in Surprise Announcement
The once omnipotent commissioner leaves his post after a stormy six-year tenure at the commission. The city provided no specific reason for his abrupt resignation.
News
Artist Hito Steyerl Rebukes German Institutions, Acting in Solidarity With Kurdish People
During a performance piece in Berlin, Steyerl demanded state-run art institutions stop showing her work as part of the country's "external cultural diplomacy" until the country changes its policy toward the Turkish invasion of Kurdish areas in northeast Syria.
News
100 Pieces of Tewa Pottery Returned to Their Ancestral Home in the Rio Grande Valley
“I think they’re very eager to return,” said Lonnie Vigil of Nambé Pueblo, “and so are we to have them back.”
News
Keith Haring’s Iconic East Harlem Mural, “Crack Is Wack,” Is Back
Moved by his friend Benny Soto’s struggles with addiction and riled by government inaction, Haring mobilized his boldly-outlined shapes and energetic figures to send a cautionary message.