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6.6-Magnitude Earthquake in Central Italy Destroys Historic Buildings
On Sunday morning, central Italy was hit by the country's most violent earthquake since 1980.
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Cairo International Film Festival Drops Acclaimed Egyptian Movie, Sparking Anger
After announcing the inclusion of Tamer El Said's film In the Last Days of the City in its next edition, the Cairo International Film Festival abruptly removed it from its program, allegedly for screening in too many other festivals.
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Express Your Feelings with Emoji Characters from Old Master Paintings
If you can't say it with words, you can now say it with expressions from Old Masters paintings.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: London’s mayor announced plans to help artists secure long-term studio spaces, restorers discovered a previously unknown work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the Städel Museum, and Pussy Riot released a new track titled “Straight Outta Vagina."
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Students March on Art Institute of Chicago to Protest Trustee’s Ties to Public Education Cuts
In the thick of the city’s rush hour, a row of protesters blockaded the stretch of Michigan Avenue to call out a museum trustee for his complicity in cuts to higher education in Illinois.
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Museum of Modern Art Adds the Original Emoji Set to Its Permanent Collection ?
The 176 pixellated pictograms created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 "are the humble masterpieces of the digital world," according to MoMA curator Paola Antonelli.
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Artists and Gallerists Grapple with Ways to Slow Gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown
During the panel discussion "Chinatown Is Not For Sale," members of the Chinatown Art Brigade presented an eight-point pledge of resistance for artists and gallery owners.
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Tennessee Commission Rejects City's Request to Remove Monument to First Grand Wizard of KKK
Erected in 1905, the towering statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest pays tribute to the Ku Klux Klan's first Grand Wizard.
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World's Oldest Continuously Operating Library Begins a New Chapter
Established in 859 CE, Morocco's al-Qarawiyyin Library will soon reopen to the public with architectural details for the 21st century.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: French prosecutors sought a four-year prison sentence and €250-million fine for art dealer Guy Wildenstein, another lawsuit over a Knoedler Gallery forgery was settled, and David Nahmad claimed ownership of a Monet seized by the US Department of Justice.
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102 Latin American Works Gifted to the Museum of Modern Art
In addition to the historic gift, the museum will establish a center for the study of modern art from Latin America.
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A Lost 1920s Robot Is Reconstructed in London
The UK's first robot, Eric, disappeared after his debut, but the Science Museum has created a working replica.