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Artists Join the Fight to Protect Standing Rock
In North Dakota and beyond, Native American artists and their allies are creating work in support of the water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Mississippi Governor Decries Billboard by Artist-Led Super PAC
The For Freedoms artist-led super PAC is riling people in Mississippi with a billboard that combines Donald Trump's campaign slogan with a Civil Rights-era photo.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a portrait of Donald Trump on a toilet caused a bomb scare, the Whitney Museum released its list of participants for next year's Biennial, and Ohad Meromi's controversial sculpture "The Sunbather" was installed in Queens.
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After Election, Miami Fair Flip-Flops on Hosting Anti-Trump Art Project
The day after the election, the art collective T.Rutt was informed it would no longer get to show its anti-Trump bus and flag works at the Red Dot Fair in Miami.
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Museum Denies Authenticity of Newly Revealed van Gogh Drawings
The celebratory release of Vincent van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook is clouded in controversy as Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum rejects the authenticity of the supposedly 200-year-old album.
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Donation Returns Over 200 Indigenous Art Objects to British Columbia
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia has received an anonymous donation of First Nations art and artifacts worth $7 million, a major return of indigenous heritage to the area.
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Two Max Ernst Paintings Go to Auction, Including One Never Shown Before
Two works by Max Ernst from the collection of his widow, the artist Dorothea Tanning, are going under the hammer.
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A Lavishly Illuminated Medieval Bestiary Goes Online
The Aberdeen Bestiary is filled with paintings of animals that illustrate tales of moral behavior. You can now page through it online.
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1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Portraits of the Dead Unearthed in Turkey
Archaeologists excavating an ancient necropolis at the site of the historic the historic Urfa castle in the southeastern city of Şanlıurfa found mosaic portraits of two men and two women.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: artists responded to the election of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin unveiled a giant statue of Vladimir the Great, and the Royal Ontario Museum apologized for the "colonial, racist and Eurocentric premises" of a 1989 exhibition.
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A Utah Schoolteacher's Exceptional Collection of Cat Art Is Meow for Sale
Patrick Eddington wrote to countless writers and artists, from Kiki Smith to Marcel Dzama to Ray Bradbury, asking them to send him cat-related works. They did.
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Artists Respond with Devastation, Then Determination, to the Election of Donald Trump
The shock after Donald Trump's election has turned to anger and determination, a galvanizing desire to fight for change and a better world than the one the President-elect plans to create.