Art
Philadelphia's Monument Lab Asks, "What's Right for Public Space?"
In Philadelphia, artists including Mel Chin, Hank Willis Thomas, Karyn Olivier, and Michelle Angela Ortiz create new possibilities for monuments in public spaces.
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Jim Henson's Muppet Prototypes and Sketches Prove He Was a Genius, No Strings Attached
At the Museum of the Moving Image, The Jim Henson Exhibition spans Henson's career and highlights the conceptual and technical innovations of the groundbreaking puppeteer and his creative collaborators.
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A New Instant Camera Prints Actual GIFs
The DIY camera Instagif NextStep snaps three-second GIFs and pops them out in an instant.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Theresa May sported a Frida Kahlo bracelet during her disastrous Conservative party conference speech, the highest level of the Colosseum was made accessible to tourists, and performance artist Deborah de Robertis was charged with exhibitionism after exposing herself in front
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Artist Vandalizes Virtual Koons Sculpture, Questioning Silicon Valley's Fake Public Space
Is it truly public space if there's no opportunity to really disrupt things? Artist Sebastian Errazuriz doesn't seem to think so.
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Giant Sculpture of Nude Woman Coming to DC's National Mall
The artist who created the 45-foot-tall sculpture of a nude woman says he hopes it will call attention to the need for ending violence against women.
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Too Lewd for the Louvre, Boinking Building Sculpture Nixed in Paris
"Domestikator," a 40-foot-tall inhabitable sculpture that was to be part of the FIAC fair's public art program, is shaped like two figures making whoopee.
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Experts Believe Leonardo Sketched the Mona Lisa Nude
Analysis of a drawing long attributed to Leonardo's studio suggests the artist worked on at least part of it, and that it may have been a preparatory sketch for the Mona Lisa.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Guggenheim pulled three works from an upcoming show over accusations of animal cruelty, Jean Nouvel dismissed claims of worker abuse at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and X-rays revealed the unusual contents of Dégas's wax sculptures.
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Police Raid Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater, Ending Six-Day Occupation
Activists took over the revered theater on Friday to protest the city's accelerating gentrification.
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After Earthquake, Mexico City’s Art Community Takes Stock of the Damage
Some galleries suffered severe damage, others turned their spaces into relief centers, and the city's biggest art fair came under fire for going ahead with its scheduled VIP opening the night of the quake.
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Explore the World's Largest Online Database of Jewish Art, from Antiquity to Today
The database's 260,000 catalogue entries, the fruits of 30 years of research, range from modernist synagogues to ancient Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.