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An exhibition by Badiucao, addressing Google's complacency in China's internet censorship, was set to open in Hong Kong on November 3. With one day's notice, organizers were forced to cancel the event “out of safety concerns," following threats from Chinese authorities.
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A librarian at the Riverside NYPL branch, Michelle Lee, spearheaded a program to loan ties, briefcases, and handbags after teaching seminars about job-hunting to NYC teenagers.
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The artist must pay nearly $170,000 to the creator of a 1985 ad campaign that he copied for the 1988 statue, “Fait d’hiver.” This is just one of five copyright infringement lawsuits from the artist's Banality series.
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The mayor’s office rescinded the controversial amendment, and grantees have received a letter explaining it as an “over-correction” just moments after the censorship push made national headlines.
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Also, a Velásquez is authenticated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Kerry James Marshall swears off public artwork after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s misstep, and more.
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Plus, the Bruce Museum receives a collection of Native American baskets, textiles, and ceramics, and the Jewish Museum Vienna receives 170 Japanese netsuke on long-term loan.
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The Commission recently told its grantees that it could terminate any funding interpreted as "lewd, lascivious, vulgar, overtly political, and/or excessively violent." The ACLU may sue on First Amendment grounds if the language is not repealed.
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Cannupa Hanska Luger is awarded the inaugural Burke Prize for contemporary craft, Pyer Moss wins the 2018 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, and more.
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Michelle Hartney posted the guerilla wall labels next to the artwork of Paul Gaugin and Pablo Picasso, calling out their abusive or misogynistic histories.
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Thanks to the internet's meticulous record-keeping, journalists are rethinking to ethics of publishing the identities of nonviolent criminals.
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Performers dressed as BP employees sipped oil-contaminated champagne, and protesters displayed facts about BP's exploitation of Iraqi resources.
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The rightwing politician launches his mandate with a focus on popular culture and public broadcast corporations, but French culture leaders and diplomats worry his appointment was an empty political move by Macron.