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A Harlem Alliance Creates New Initiative for Public Art
The Marcus Garvey Park Alliance has ambitious plans for a new program of public art to commence in 2016 with works primarily situated in four historic Harlem parks.
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Protesters Demand Metropolitan Museum Remove 19 Renoir Paintings
The fight against Renoir's paintings and their established presence in museums is far, far from over.
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Gowanus Rallies to Support Artists Losing Affordable Workspaces
Arts Gowanus gathered its community on the morning of Saturday, October 18, for a rally to support artists who are being pushed out of a block-long group of buildings on 9th Street in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood.
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Workers Fighting to Unionize Claim B&H Photo Threatened "Termination en Masse"
Just four days after B&H Photo Video employees announced their intention to form a union, describing hazardous working conditions and discriminatory practices at the photo and video retailer's two Brooklyn warehouses, company representatives allegedly threatened them "with termination en masse."
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Lawrence Weiner installed a series of works in an 18th-century British palace, a museum researcher defended his decision to kill a rare bird for scientific study, and Playboy decided to cease publishing images of nude women.
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Street Artists Hack 'Homeland' With Arabic Grafitti
Viewers able to read Arabic who caught last Sunday's US airing of the award-winning television show Homeland may have noticed something bizarre about the graffiti lining the walls of the Syrian refugee camp.
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Employees Protest Conditions, Move to Unionize, at Independent Photo Retailer B&H
Workers for B&H Photo Video, the largest independent photo and video product store in the United States, are moving to unionize, demanding that the New York–based institution improve dangerous working conditions and cease acts of discrimination in its Brooklyn warehouses.
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Allegedly Fake Joan Mirós Trigger Trials in Turkey
On November 20, 2013, an exhibition titled Miró in Istanbul opened at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University’s Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, but its two-month run was cut short when the objects on view were denounced as fake and it closed on December 20.
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1930s Slave Murals in Alabama Could Be Removed After Petition Gains Steam
Imagine walking into a courthouse for jury duty and finding yourself surrounded by scenes depicting your enslaved ancestors. That’s what many black people in Jefferson County, Alabama, have been experiencing for the past eight decades.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Elizabeth Hurley sets off alarms at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Florida man's giant chair sculpture angers neighbors, and Egyptian museum project under investigation for embezzlement.
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Beijing Biennial Censors Art in Armenian Pavilion
Following the attempts of three Azerbaijani officials to remove photographs from the Armenian Pavilion at the 6th Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB) last month, the special exhibit, Dreamscapes, now stands edited from its original presentation by its curator and the biennale's organizers, who
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a rare Tintin drawing sold for $1.25 million, the UK's first glow-in-the-dark skate park was unveiled, and a rude portrait was found on the back of a Picasso painting.