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This week in art news: Trevor Paglen unveiled a new sculpture of radiated glass, the Basquiat estate demanded a website take down nude photos of the artist, and two cases related to the Knoedler Gallery's alleged sale of forgeries will go to trial.
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If you’re an artist who’s complained about the oil industry and the way fossil fuel extraction is damaging the environment, you now have a chance to put your money where your mouth is.
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With ISIS targeting and destroying ancient cultural sites in Syria and Iraq, reducing some to just rubble, it may be that views of these historic structures will survive only in photographs.
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It’s two weeks before Gowanus Open Studios, an annual celebration of the artistic community in one of Brooklyn's foremost industrial neighborhoods. But instead of putting the finishing touches on paintings, many artists with Gowanus studios are busy scouring real estate listings.
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Two prominent US artists, Nicole Eisenman and LaToya Ruby Frazier, are among the 24 winners of this year's John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships, often referred to as "genius grants."
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A Wes Anderson-inspired crochet mural that appeared on a residential wall bordering the Bushwick Flea — and was hastily removed last week after sparking controversy — has come to represent "the systemic brutality of gentrification," according to Brooklyn anarchists.
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LOS ANGELES — The new Broad Museum has received criticism for exhibiting a safe, market-friendly collection of familiar names, but the protest held in front of the museum on opening day had nothing to do with art.
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This week in art news: the Musée d’Orsay couldn't open on the first day of its Images of Prostitution exhibition due to a union strike, Zaha Hadid walked out of an interview with BBC Radio 4, and a mysterious new emoji perplexed Apple users.
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Over 150 prints believed to be originals by M.C. Escher, on permanent display at the Hague's Escher in het Paleis (Escher in the Palace), are actually replicas, the museum's founder has revealed.
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It's the 21st century, and monkeys take selfies. But do they own the copyrights to those images? PETA says yes.
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A 15-foot-tall crocheted mural that appeared, unauthorized, on the side of a private Bushwick residence and has since stirred debate about gentrification and street art is coming down today.
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On this week's art crime blotter: vandals tag a Munich museum with swastikas, hunters venture onto Texan museum's grounds, and a public sculpture is mysteriously beheaded.