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Last week, performance artist Michele Pred handed out small pocket knives passengers arriving at San Francisco's International Airport to replace those that have been confiscated since the passage of the Patriot Act 15 years ago.
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On Sunday morning, central Italy was hit by the country's most violent earthquake since 1980.
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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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If you can't say it with words, you can now say it with expressions from Old Masters paintings.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In addition to the historic gift, the museum will establish a center for the study of modern art from Latin America.