News
A Postmortem on Trump's Proposed Chinese Art Tariff
Art dealers and economists weigh in on why Chinese art narrowly evaded a new 10% tariff on Chinese goods.
News
News
The Bronx Museum of the Arts Opens a Satellite Space in Lower Manhattan to Support Emerging Artists
The donated auxiliary location, opening in early 2019, will "bring the best of the Bronx into another space."
![After Dispute with Documenta Artist, City of Kassel Demands Removal of Monument for Refugees [UPDATED]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/10/documenta-1460-1-scaled.jpg)
News
After Dispute with Documenta Artist, City of Kassel Demands Removal of Monument for Refugees [UPDATED]
The City of Kassel has decided to indefinitely remove Olu Oguibe’s public sculpture, “Monument to Strangers and Refugees,” commissioned for last year’s Documenta.
News
Trump-Shaped Inflatable Tank Roams the Streets of Beirut
Anonymous Syrian Artist SAINT HOAX’s Instagram performance launches in the wake of his MonuMental exhibition opening.
![14 Arts Organizations Protest Governors Island Rezoning [UPDATED]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/09/gov-is-event-1000.jpg)
News
14 Arts Organizations Protest Governors Island Rezoning [UPDATED]
Arts and cultural organizations have voiced their fears of changing socioeconomic standards on the island, and laid out a plan to maintain the public space in the face of gentrification.
News
Art Movements
The director of the Serralves Museum resigns after Mapplethorpe exhibition is censored, and London collective stages sit-in at 2018 Turner Prize, saying “Black Pain Is Not for Profit."
News
Forum at Cal State Long Beach Provides Few Answers on Museum Director’s Firing
In an attempt to provide some clarity, the university held a question-and-answer session for students and faculty earlier this week.
News
Hirshhorn Museum Acquires Ai Weiwei Installation, and Getty Acquires Betye Saar Archive
Plus, an Albert Giacometti sculpture sells at auction, and Sotheby's cancels their sale of the Count and Countess Viel Castel collection after an unnamed American buys the entire collection.
News
New Evidence Suggests a Double-Homicide Propelled Thomas Gainsborough Toward Art
Two members of Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child. Without their deaths, it's possible that he may never have had the chance to study painting.
News
Louisiana Supreme Court Ends Rule Banning the Outdoor Sale of Art in New Orleans
A city law effectively banned the outdoor sale of art outside the French Quarter, but one artist has helped to set a new precedent with his win against the code on First Amendment grounds.
News
Edmonton Unveils an Indigenous Sculpture Park on Ancestral Lands
Candice Hopkins curated the sculptures by six Canadian Indigenous artists in Edmonton's North Saskatchewan River Valley.
News
Researcher Discovers the True Identity of Courbet's "Origin of the World" Model
Experts are now "99 percent" certain that the genitalia featured in Courbet's painting belongs to the ballet dancer Constance Quéniaux.