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Digitizing Route Books from the Golden Age of the American Circus
Over 300 route books made by American circuses are being digitized for the first time by Illinois State University, Circus World, and the Ringling Museum of Art.
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A 12,000-Pound Panorama of a Civil War Battle Is Lifted into Its New Home
The colossal 19th-century painting of the Battle of Atlanta has been hailed as a tribute to both the North and South, and its complicated history will be a focus in its new home at the Atlanta History Center.
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Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Organizations Fight Misinformation with #DayofFacts
As a corrective to the perception that we are living in a post-truth reality, art, history, and science institutions around the world are sharing truths today through the social media hashtag #DayofFacts.
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An Online Catalogue for All 25,000 of William Henry Fox Talbot's Photographs
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford launched the first complete, digital catalogue for 19th-century photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Paris will build a wall of bullet-proof glass around the Eiffel Tower, Israel's culture minister shut down a nonprofit gallery for hosting an anti-occupation group, and the UK placed an export bar on a Parmigianino recently purchased by the Getty.
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A Metal Prefab House from the 1930s Finds a Home in Palm Springs
This week, the 1931 metal Aluminaire House arrived in Palm Springs, where it will finally be reassembled after years in storage.
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A Newly Discovered Photograph of Harriet Tubman Heads to Auction
A new photograph of Harriet Tubman adds to the visual record of this renowned African American.
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In Protest of Trump's Travel Ban, Davis Museum Will Remove All Art Made or Donated by Immigrants
From tomorrow until Presidents' Day, the Davis Museum at Wellesley is deinstalling or shrouding all of its art by immigrants as a statement against Trump's travel ban.
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Right-wing Cartoonist Inserts Betsy DeVos into Iconic Civil Rights Painting
Glenn McCoy appropriated Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With," replacing the six-year-old black girl who desegregated a public school with the billionaire Secretary of Education.
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Controversial Assassination Picture Wins 2017 World Press Photo Award [UPDATED]
This year's World Press Photo winners were selected from 80,408 images submitted by 5,034 photographers from 125 countries
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Restoring a 1920s Theater to Revitalize Flint's Downtown
Closed for almost two decades, the historic Capitol Theatre in Flint, Michigan, is being restored and reopened as a cultural hub.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: anti-immigration protesters demonstrated at the unveiling of Manaf Halbouni's monument to the people of Aleppo, Sotheby's sued a dealer and a collector over an allegedly forged Frans Hals, and the Louvre reopened 24 hours after a man attacked a French soldier with a machete ne