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New German Museum Focuses on Artists Persecuted by Nazis and Communists
Chances are you've never heard of Milly Steger.
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New Site Lets You Report Facebook and Other Networks When They Censor Art
Nudity in art has been around for thousands of years, but Facebook still can't take it.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Banksy unveiled new works at a refugee camp in France, the Rijksmuseum began removing offensive and racially charged terms from its digitized collection, and the National Parks Service is looking to hire a full-time photographer for a salary of up to $99,296 a year.
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University of Kentucky Covers Up a Racially Charged Depression-Era Mural Amid Community Debate
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Universities across the country are having productive conversations about race and representation, but what happens when campus public art is caught in the crossfire between a desire to preserve history and cultural sensitivity?
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South Korean Art Community Demands Institutional Reform Following Controversial Museum Appointment
The appointment of a new director to South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art last week has extenuated the concerns of the country's art community over issues of government and institutional censorship.
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University of Southern California BFA Students Speak Out and Burn Work in Solidarity with #USC7
LOS ANGELES — Since the entire first year MFA class at USC Roski School of Art and Design dropped out in May, the turbulence surrounding the program has been well documented, but little attention has been paid to the undergraduates.
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Inside the Skeleton of Rem Koolhaas's Under-Construction Miami Beach Forum
MIAMI BEACH — A new cultural center designed by Rem Koolhaas with OMA is aiming to give Miami Beach a year-round multidisciplinary arts hub.
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Artists and Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” in Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests at the Louvre
PARIS — As leaders from around the world met here for a tenth day of climate change policy negotiations, more than a hundred activists and members of several art collectives gathered at the Louvre this afternoon to highlight the institution’s ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Ukrainian militias flood the market with stolen paintings, a museum security guard is sacked for on-the-job vandalism, and a British art forger does it for love.
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Photographer Discovers ISIS Has Stolen His Artwork
Many artists have suffered the indignity of having their work ripped off by one big company or other. But few have experienced the particular pain, as Brian McCarty has, of having their art illegally appropriated by ISIS.
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Woman Stabbed at Art Basel Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH — There has been a stabbing in the Nova section of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the Art Miami fair was flooded following torrential rain, forger Shaun Greenhalgh claimed to have created a work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, and artist Stefan Glerum designed two 60-foot stained glass facades for a new housing project in Amsterdam.