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New Orleans Ranked Best City for Creative Workers
According to a new study from the personal finance website SmartAsset, New Orleans has the best affordability-to-culture ratio out of the 187 largest cities in the United States.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The Rijksmuseum acquired a rare medieval chain, the UK wavered over issuing a visa for Ai Weiwei, and Peter Brant sold his ownership of Art in America.
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LA Times Drops Political Cartoonist After Blog Post About Police
LOS ANGELES — Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times terminated its relationship with political cartoonist Ted Rall based on “serious questions about the accuracy” of a May 11 blog post by him
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Surprise, Women's History Museum Actually Devoted to Jack the Ripper!
The founder of the controversial, soon-to-open Jack the Ripper Museum — initially presented as a museum that celebrates women in London's East End — is defending his vision of it as a site to explore local women's history and stories.
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Australian Politician Steals Obama "Hope" Poster Design for Garish Graphic
Australian senator Jacqui Lambi recently produced her own portrait that riffs off the famous Obama poster, but with the words "TRUST" instead of "HOPE."
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: terrifying golden head sculptures stolen from a British festival, an alleged thief blames museum's flimsy security for his thievery, and ancient ivory penis carvings turn up missing from an antiques store.
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Real Estate Developers Sue Oakland Over New Public Art Ordinance
Real estate developers are suing the city of Oakland over a new law that requires them to set aside funds to commission and install public art in new residential and commercial buildings.
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Swiss City Grooms for First Nude Public Performance Art Festival
On August 21, the world's first official, naked public performance art festival will occur in the streets of Biel, Switzerland, featuring projects from 18 international artists.
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Wells Fargo Moves to Sell Nonprofit Art Space’s Home Out from Under It
After supporting and promoting local artists' work for over 54 years, a nonprofit contemporary art center in a converted Elizabethan-style home in New Haven, Connecticut, will likely shut down this week.
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Sleek New Short by the FBI Warns of Chinese Espionage
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.
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Soviet Symbols Going Up and Coming Down
It’s been nearly a quarter century since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but the physical reminders of Central and Eastern Europe’s communist past are still provoking controversy.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: an Irma Stern painting that was being used as a noticeboard is found in a London flat, Rome's Trevi Fountain is crawling with rats, and Chinese authorities issued Ai Weiwei a new passport.