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The West's Empty Fetish for Ruins
Bloomington, IN. — If you live in Indianapolis and have a family, you’re probably familiar with Holliday Park, located among the elaborate homes of a wealthy north side neighborhood of the city.
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From Tiny Stairs to Taxidermy Earrings, 200,000 Objects from Cooper Hewitt Go Online
Home to drawings, textiles, jewelry, furniture, and thousands of other design objects, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is taking increased advantage of the internet's digital real estate.
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Artist-in-Residence Stranded at Sea on Bankrupt Container Ship
An artist residency hosted on a freighter crossing the Pacific Ocean has turned into a bizarre existential art piece in itself.
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Security Footage Shows 60-Foot Kenny Scharf Mural Being Stolen, Again
A 60-foot-long mural by street artist Kenny Scharf has been stolen from the East River Esplanade in Harlem for the second time — but at least this time the heist was captured on camera.
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US Judge Approves Warrant for Acoma Shield Listed for Sale by Paris Auction House
An Acoma shield that was removed from a May auction in Paris that included human remains and indigenous sacred objects has yet to be returned.
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A $2.5 Million Statue Casts a Long Shadow on the Bronx Museum’s Cuban Initiatives
Sometime early next year, a monumental sculpture of the Cuban writer and national hero José Martí is expected to rise on Havana's busy Paseo del Prado.
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In Wake of Protests, Pacific Northwest College of Art Suspends a Master’s Program
Six days before the start of the fall semester at Pacific Northwest College of Art, a group of Master's candidates and professors received an email from the dean of students informing them that their program was suspended and they would not be teaching or studying as planned.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Italy lobbied to have Venice excluded from UNESCO's list of endangered heritage sites, a makeup artist and model sued Richard Prince for copyright infringement, and the Portland Art Museum revealed plans to repatriate an 18th-century painting to Korea.
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Group Calls for Greater Latinx Participation in the College Art Association Conference
The U.S. Latina/o Art Forum has just put out a call to action for all its members, urging them to “increase the representation of Latinx art at the 2017 Annual [College Art Association] Conference by submitting a proposal to present a paper.”
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: the makers of a Millennium Falcon–shaped shed struck back, a thief attempted to hold a sculpture ransom, and a painting of a nude man with a teapot set local prudes boiling.
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Pumping New Life into the Gleaming, Victorian-Era Relic that Rid London of Cholera
Although once charged with the incredibly unglamorous task of eliminating sewage from London, the Crossness Pumping Station boasts a stunningly ornate interior.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a former Malian rebel leader pleaded guilty to cultural destruction at the International Criminal Court, Italy will give all teenage residents €500 to spend on culture for their 18th birthdays, and Banksy's "Spy Booth" mural was removed and possibly destroyed.