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The Brooklyn Historical Society Will Remember 9/11 With an Artist's Live-Stream of the Attack
Artist Wolfgang Staehle inadvertently captured the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center on his webcam.
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Protesters at Goldsmiths University in London Demand Answers for "Who Keeps the Cube White?"
Activist organization "Goldsmiths Cleaners" obstructed the opening of the new Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art to demand improved contracts for cleaners
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A Jerusalem Art Space Is Shuttered by City for Hosting Lecture by Left-Leaning NGO
The Barbur Gallery was targeted by the Israeli Minister of Culture and Mayor of Jerusalem for hosting events with NGO’s dedicated to the end of Palestinian occupation.
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3D van Gogh Paintings Are Selling at US Malls for Around $17,000
Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is showcasing and selling three-dimensional replicas of iconic paintings at malls across the US for one year.
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Art Movements
Two PEN-award winning journalists sentenced to 7 years in jail, a controversial statue of Erdoğan stirs controversy in Germany, and Art Basel takes up a new economic model.
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Hirshhorn Museum Receives 50 Marcel Duchamp Works, and Birmingham Museum Repatriates 12th-Century Indian Sculpture
Plus, the New Orleans Museum receives over 1,300 photographs, and the Pallant House Gallery acquires six works by Young British Artists.
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Christie’s Expects $51M for One of China’s ‘Da Vinci’ Scrolls, But Provenance Questions Remain
Centuries before Wester Europe coined the term, "renaissance man," artist Su Shi moonlighted as a pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman for the Song Dynasty.
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Artist Responds to Criticism for Her Nude Performance at Catholic Holy Site
Deborah De Robertis gave Catholic pilgrims to Lourdes the shock of their lives by disrobing as the Virgin Mary to emancipate the female gaze from religion.
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Brazil’s National Museum Goes Up in Smoke, Leaving Brazilians Heartbroken and Angered
Protesters and museum staff respond after the National Museum lost 90% of its collection to a fire that spread on September 2.
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NYC Subway Honors Aretha Franklin with Sign of “Respect”
A guerilla tribute by arts activists LeRoy McCarthy and Vincent Ballentine led to the MTA-sanctioned recognition.
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Brazil's Largest Queer Art Exhibition Reopens After Being Censored Last Year
Criticism from far-right groups led Queermuseum to shut down and sparked a counter-movement that relaunched the exhibit.
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You Can Now Own a Genuine Work of Art by a Panda — If You Have $570
Yang Yang is creating 100 black and white paintings to raise funds for a book on the Vienna Zoo's panda population.