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Peekaboo, the NYPD Is Watching You!
The New York Police Department (NYPD) wants to regain the trust of the New Yorkers it alienated with recent controversies like “Stop-and-Frisk” and the killing of Eric Garner.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the FBI revealed that the suspects in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist are dead, the Knoedler Gallery settled three of the 10 lawsuits stemming from its forgery fiasco, and Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids will become a television series.
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Three Years After Sandy, South Street Seaport Gets $10.4 Million from FEMA
This week the South Street Seaport got an essential boost.
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Historic Chapel in Mexico Mysteriously Torn Down
Did a small town in Mexico bulldoze a historically protected chapel at the heart of its community last month?
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Artists Launch "Letter for Palestine" Campaign at Venice Biennale
On Sunday, artists participating in and attending the 2015 Venice Biennale launched a campaign titled "Artists' Letter for Palestine."
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Anish Kapoor Threatens to Sue Over Chinese “Cloud Gate” Copy
Yesterday we noticed that a copy of Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" in Chicago is in the works in Karamay, China, promoted as a giant, stainless steel drop of oil.
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Billionaire Must Pay Sculptor for Unauthorized Copies, but He Gets to Keep Them
Last week a federal judge ordered Russian-born, Florida-based billionaire Igor Olenicoff to pay sculptor John Raimondi $640,000 for having unauthorized copies of his work made in China and installed at his development sites.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: banana sculpture slips away, graffiti artist sues designer over Katy Perry's dress, and art signs disappear from New York City streets.
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Staffers Start Indefinite Strike at London’s National Gallery
Today, members of the UK's Public and Commercial Services Union commenced "indefinite strike action" at London's National Gallery in a protest against the museum's ongoing privatization plans.
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Photographer Kiripi Katembo, Master of Reflection, Dies at 36
The Congolese photographer, painter, and film producer Kiripi Katembo has died at age 36 of cerebral malaria.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the FBI released security footage of the night before the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, a seven-year-old boy got stuck in a work of public art, and the Ashmolean Museum acquired a trove of illustrated correspondence between Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Helen Mary Gaskel
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Instagram Deletes Activist Account After #KKKorGOP Posts
Last night, the activist group Dream Defenders contributed to the first GOP debate through Instagram, posting on its account collaged images of Republican candidates and members of the KKK, tagged #KKKorGOP.