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Fire at Glasgow School of Art Displaces Residents for Months, Guts Mackintosh Building
Local residents cordoned from their homes and businesses for 10 weeks following the devastating blaze.
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Conceptual Art “Playground” Irreparably Damaged 10 Minutes into Exhibition Opening
Sean Matthews' sculpture "Fair and Square" required 60 hours of welding, and only 10 seconds to dismantle.
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What Can the Arts Do for Immigrants? NYC’s Cultural Leaders Convene an Event to Hear Your Thoughts
70 of New York City arts organizations have called upon the City's government to convene a symposium on how to better serve the city's immigrant community now under siege by ICE and the Trump administration.
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A New Orleans Museum Is Now Mobile, Transforming How People See Art
Housed in a customized trailer, the traveling counterpart of the New Orleans Museum of Art challenges elitist narratives about who museums are for.
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Is Spain's Decision to Exhume Franco's Body a Goodwill Gesture or a Politically Motivated Ploy?
The leftist government's decision to dig up the dictator's body from its resting place after four decades in the country's most important memorial site threatens to open old wounds.
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Artist Trevor Paglen Is Not Convinced His Space Art Will Ruin Astronomical Research
After raising nearly $76,000 to launch his artwork into space, Paglen is now facing concerted criticism from the science community that his sculpture could ruin their research for the two months it orbits Earth. The artist begs to differ.
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Former Educators at London’s National Gallery Are Taking Legal Action, Alleging Unfair Dismissal
The 27 claimants are alleging unfair dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of length of service, age, and sex.
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Art Movements
Anti-ICE activists run into trouble at the Statue of Liberty, ominous "hunger stones" appear amidst European drought, and an unlucky visitor falls into Anish Kapoor's "Descent into Limbo.”
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The Blanton Museum Gifts 500 Works to Texas Museums, and German Museum Gets 150 Beuys Works
Plus, M+ in Hong Kong acquires all of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries's works, and the Millennium Sapphire is purchased for $50 million.
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Duke University Decides to Leave Former Site of Robert E. Lee Memorial Vacant
A year after removing the statue, Duke University decides to leave the site of the former Confederate monument empty to "provide a powerful statement about the past, the present and our values."
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The New York Public Library Lets You Read a Novel on Instagram
A new initiative launches handheld reading for classic literature.
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Heatwave Reveals Traces of Unknown Archeological Sites in England
This summer's heat has led to a series of archeological discoveries in England.