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Major English Arts Organizations Lack Diversity in Leadership, Report Reveals
The new report finds a lack of minority members in top posts, and of workers with disabilities overall, among the staff of cultural organizations.
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Over 120 Protesters Ask Artis Nonprofit to Clarify "Organization’s Position by Signing onto BDS"
Protesters marched to the offices of Artis, a New York-based arts nonprofit that organizes trips for arts professionals to Israel, demanding the group demonstrate they're not part of a larger movement to normalize the occupation of Palestinian lands.
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CIA Declassifies Maps from 75 Years of Surveillance
To mark the 75th anniversary of its Cartography Center, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shares decades of declassified maps.
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The World's 25 Most Instagrammed Museums
Spoiler alert (not really): art museums dominate the list, and the Louvre takes the number-one spot.
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Focused on Residencies, the Main Museum Tests a Different Model in Downtown LA
Founded by two real estate developers, the Main Museum is a non-collecting institution concentrating on Los Angeles artists.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Swiss authorities seized antiquities looted from Palmyra, dozens of artists were evicted from a Baltimore studio building, and the mayor of the Greek island of Milos demanded the Louvre return the Venus de Milo.
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Thousands of Minor White’s Photographs Go Online
Thousands of prints by the American photographer and founding editor of Aperture magazine have been digitized and uploaded to a website launched by Princeton University Art Museum.
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Artist Kader Attia Files Plagiarism Lawsuit over French Rap Video
YouTube took down the music video for a song by the French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu after Attia filed a lawsuit claiming it plagiarizes one of his works.
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Steven Mnuchin, Trump's Treasury Secretary Pick, Resigns from LA Museum Board
The man that President-elect Donald Trump want to be his Treasury secretary just resigned from the MOCA board.
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Did an Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpture Really Make 17 FBI Agents Sick?
A towering cedar sculpture by the world-renowned artist is being blamed for the hospitalization of over a dozen employees at the FBI's Miami field office.
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Library of Congress and Digital Public Library of America Launch Partnership with Maps
The Library of Congress has joined the Digital Public Library of America as a content hub and is sharing around 5,000 objects from its map collections.
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Architects Float Plan to Block Trump Tower Chicago Sign with Golden Pigs
An architecture firm visualizes four gilded pigs floating in the air to conceal Trump Tower Chicago’s 20-foot-tall TRUMP sign as a way to “provide visual relief to the citizens of Chicago.”