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Discover NYC's Over 1,000 Public Artworks with a New Interactive Map
New York City has over 1,000 monuments across the five boroughs, and the new NYC Public Art Map and Guide plots them on an interactive map
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More Than 40 Artists and Designers Accuse Zara of Plagiarism
A week ago, Los Angeles-based artist Tuesday Bassen posted a photo on Instagram contrasting her original designs for pins and patches with alleged ripoffs sold by Zara, the international clothing brand.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the European Court of Human Rights threw out a lawsuit calling for the return of the Elgin Marbles, BP slashed its cultural funding by £2.5 million, and a digital artwork commissioned by the Hammer Museum was mistaken for advertising.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Launches Initiative to Deepen Collection of African American Art
Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired “Bird” (1990), a striking sculpture by David Hammons.
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Anti-Gentrification Coalition Calls for Galleries to Leave LA's Boyle Heights
LOS ANGELES — The latest development in the debate over art and gentrification in Boyle Heights took place earlier this month, when a public forum was held at the Pico Gardens complex, part of the largest public housing bloc west of the Mississippi.
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Study of 500 Years of Still Lifes Confirms We've Long Had an Appetite for Exotic Foods
The Dutch loved painting lemons; Italians, oranges and pears. Meanwhile, artists from the US and France were the most likely to incorporate the humble cracker into their canvases.
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Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images
In December, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website.
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Jersey City Censors a Public Artwork It Commissioned
Jersey City officials have painted over a contentious artwork that the city's public arts program commissioned, prompting calls to tighten what critics view as a highly ambiguous, if not essentially nonexistent, citywide public arts policy.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a punk rocker righted the gender imbalance in an exhibition on the genre's history, two Monets were seized from a Malaysian businessman accused of fraud, and a court ordered artist Orlan to pay Lady Gaga $22,000.
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A Corpse Flower Is About to Bloom in the Bronx, Unleashing Its Sensational Stench
Something rotten is preparing to bloom in the Bronx: one of the world's largest flowers that smells like death.
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"Trump Huts" May Crop Up Around US as Luxury Protest Tents
For the first three days of the Republican National Convention, a super-sized version of Donald Trump's signature coiffure swept its way across Cleveland, inviting anyone to enter its gleaming, golden locks.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Gagosian Gallery agreed to pay $4.28 million in back taxes to the state of New York, Jeff Koons laid off 15 studio workers who were attempting to unionize, and Florentijn Hofman unveiled a giant bear sculpture made of conifer tree branches.