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Today in Notre-Dame News: Angry Bees and Zombie Gargoyles Edition
Nothing gets creative cogs churning quite like an 850-year-old cathedral on fire.
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Week in Review: 500 Years Since Leonardo’s Death, Jonas Wood Sale Will Fund Rainforest Conservation
Also, the Asia Society will launch a triennial in 2020, Trevor Paglen's space sculpture has lost contact with engineers on Earth, and more.
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British Museum Receives Damien Hirst's Frank Dunphy Portraits, and Brooklyn Museum Announces Major Acquisitions
Plus, the Brooklyn Museum purchases work by Diedrick Brackens and Gala Porras-Kim at Frieze New York, and the Delaware Art Museum purchases work by Hank Willis Thomas.
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Art Movements
Director John Singleton passed away, the shortlist for the Turner Prize was announced, and more.
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Gulf Labor Coalition Calls on Artists to Boycott Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
The activist group says that the new museum is being “built on the back of exploited, indebted, and abused workers."
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Hundreds of Protesters Wielded Bananas After a Polish Museum Censored Feminist Artworks
Following an anonymous complaint, the director of the National Museum in Warsaw took down the works of Natalia LL, Katarzyna Kozyra, and the duo Karolina Wiktor and Aleksandra Kubiak, sparking #bananagate.
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Environmental Activists Stage Die-In at Tate Modern, Evoking "Colony Collapse" of Bee Populations
Around 100 activists, led by Extinction Rebellion, rode around the city on bikes as part of the “Critical Swarm," and then collapsed in front of the Tate Modern to symbolize the death of bee colonies.
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Almost 50 Whitney Biennal Artists Sign Letter Demanding Removal of Warren Kanders from Museum Board
Over 100 artists, including participants of the upcoming biennial, have added their signatures to an open letter released earlier this month calling for the removal of the weapons manufacturer as a vice chair.
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Panelists at MoMA Conference Call on Museum and Board Member to Divest from Prison Companies
An open letter signed by 15 artists and scholars who participated in the conference targets MoMa board member Larry Fink, whose company BlackRock is invested in two of the country's largest prison companies.
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A Musical Protest at the Whitney Museum Focuses on Puerto Rico
“The Whitney is being funded by war waged on our homeland,” one protester said.
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An Anonymous Campaign Calls Out Berlin Gallery Weekend for Being Overwhelming White and Male
According to a group of activists, 75% of the artists being platformed at Berlin Gallery Weekend are white and male.
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A Study Says High Family Income Significantly Increases Likelihood of Becoming an Artist
After studying US census data since 1850, an economist says that with every $10,000 in total family income, a person is about 2% more likely to go into a creative occupation.