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On January 1, Bushwick gallery Fuchs Projects announced its plans to share a list of the "200 most influential people in Bushwick in 2016" — news met with fierce outcry from members of the community troubled by what many regarded as an exclusive project ignorant of the effects of gentrification.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: an art analysis assignment gets a teacher suspended, new reality TV show allegedly glorifies 'grave-robbing,' and Justin Bieber climbs a Mayan ruin and pulls his pants down.
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This week in art news: Joel Goodman's photograph of British New Year's revelers went viral, a representative of Beyoncé denied that the singer is planning to star in a biopic on Saartjie Baartman, and 30 museums in Southern California will offer free admission on January 30.
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Two years ago, French artist Orlan sued pop star Lady Gaga in French court for plagiarism over the singer's cover art for her 2011 album Born this Way and the eponymous, award-winning music video.
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A carving of a phallus in a rock would probably seem like the handiwork of a bored youth today, but such imagery was especially common in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol of good luck rather than a sexual reference.
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A new lawsuit greets Richard Prince in the new year. Following the appropriation artist's unauthorized use in 2014 of a picture of a Rastafarian smoking, its photographer, Donald Graham, is now suing Prince.
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The trope of the tortured artist is a persistent one, dating back at least to Aristotle’s time.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: vandals attack Jackie Chan's sculptures in Taiwan, Abe Lincoln's hand goes missing from Illinois museum, and an advertising student claims an agency ripped off his poster design.
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A team of archaeologists in Egypt has discovered six rock cut statues inside two adjoining shrines, previously believed to be completely destroyed by an earthquake that shook the region centuries ago.
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After days in detention, leading members of the arts community in Turkey, and members of the peace initiative “Barış İçin Yürüyorum (I Am Walking For Peace),” were released following their December 31 arrest in Sur, Turkey.
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This week in art news: Egyptian authorities raided a nonprofit gallery in Cairo, Ai Weiwei visited migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, and preservationists criticized the Smithsonian for placing bright new signs on the façade of one of its historical buildings.
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This week in art news: Egyptian authorities raided a nonprofit gallery in Cairo, Ai Weiwei visited migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, and preservationists criticized the Smithsonian for placing bright new signs on the façade of one of its historical buildings.