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How Sketchy Is the V&A's "No Sketching" Policy?
People are up in arms about signs at the Victoria and Albert Museum banning not just photography but also sketching in its latest temporary exhibition, Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear.
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France Lost Track of 23,000 State-Owned Artworks and Historic Objects
Nearly 23,000 works of state-owned art are missing in France and its overseas territories, lost over time from museums, town halls, and major institutions largely due to poor documentation and even theft.
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Treatment of Adjuncts Spurs Protests at Pacific Northwest College of Art
Students and teachers at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, protested on campus this week, demanding that adjunct professors be rehired with contracts after some of the college's most influential educators were unceremoniously left out of next semester's class schedule.
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British Library Digitizes One of the World’s Oldest Qur'an Manuscripts
One of the world's oldest Qur'an manuscripts is now online, digitized in full by the British Library. The text dates from the 8th century — making it the oldest of its kind in the institution's collection.
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The Donald Threatens to Sue Artist Over Her Trump Micropenis Portrait
The artist who gave the world a drawing of a nude Donald Trump with a small penis is facing a potential lawsuit from Trump's legal team if the painting sells.
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Artists Protest Collector's Takeover of Indian Museum
BENGALURU, India — In July of last year, an agreement was signed to turn control of one of the oldest public art galleries in this city of 11.5 million over to a private foundation.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: police took down a noose art installation, the leader of a Chinese antiquities looting ring was sentenced to death, and someone stole a public sculpture of a porcupine.
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Guggenheim Breaks Off Negotiations with Gulf Labor Over Migrant Rights
On April 13, the Guggenheim Board of Trustees informed the Gulf Labor Coalition that it will no longer negotiate with the group regarding the living and working conditions of the workers who are and will be building its museum in Abu Dhabi.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Long Island City's iconic Pepsi-Cola sign was designated a landmark, the US Senate passed a bill to ban imports of Syrian antiquities, and an underwater robot discovered the sunken Loch Ness Monster model built for Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
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Century-Old Glass Photographic Plate Reveals Earliest Evidence of an Exoplanet
The Carnegie Institution for Science announced this week that one researcher's dive into a collection of glass photographic plates turned up an unexpected image from 1917 that indicates the presence of an exoplanetary system.
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Report Finds Huge Gender Gap in Polish Art Schools
A new report by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation investigates a stark disparity in Poland’s art academies: women constitute 77% of students but only 22% of professors.
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New Database Connects Contemporary Iraqi Artists to the Rest of the World
Nearly 400 portfolios of contemporary Iraqi artists are now available for you to explore, courtesy of a new and publicly accessible online database — the first of its kind.