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Staff and Board Members Leave Brooklyn Rail En Masse
More than a dozen people, including all the current senior editorial staff, are leaving the revered culture journal.
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Artists and Activists Propose a "People’s Cultural Plan" for New York City
As the Department of Cultural Affairs works on the official NYC cultural plan, a group of activists has advanced its own ambitious vision.
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Artist Projects Image of Jeff Sessions as Klansman on Department of Justice
Robin Bell lit up the DOJ and FBI façades with phrases such as "#RefusaltoRecuse" and comically sinister portraits of members of the Trump administration.
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Basquiat Painting Sells for $110.5 Million, Becoming Most Expensive Work by US Artist at Auction
The Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezaw who bought the 1982 painting last night at Sotheby's New York posted multiple images of himself posing with his treasure on Twitter and Instagram.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Gagosian agreed to pay a $4.28-million tax settlement, an arrest warrant was issued for Russian dissident artist Oleg Vorotnikov, and John Singer Sargent’s "Gassed" travelled to New York for the first time.
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Millions of Objects at 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized for Online Database
They are expecting to digitize seven million images by 2020.
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The Guggenheim Restores Its First Web Art Commission
"Brandon" was completed in 1999, and it is based on the rape and murder of 21-year-old trans man Brandon Teena in Humboldt, Nebraska.
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On Museum Day, Institutions Encourage Visitors to Be Activists for the Arts
On May 18, museums across the county will offer free or discounted admission, and many will also put out postcards for writing to elected officials.
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Letters Between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Model Fanny Cornforth Are Now Online
The Delaware Art Museum has digitized correspondence between the Pre-Raphaelite painter and his overlooked muse.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Met files to charge out-of-state visitors, a new Banksy mural comments on Brexit, the Tiananmen Square Museum will reopen, and Pepe the Frog gets laid to rest.
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Guerrilla Golden Toilets Across the US Invite You to "Take a Trump!"
An anonymous collective called the Art Finksters dropped the loos — which are emblazoned with an image of a pig wearing a crown — on the president's 100th day in office.
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Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum
Last Friday, Occupy Museums held a "counter-commencement" at the Whitney Museum of American Art that called attention to student debt and “speculative investment in art and culture.”