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Two Prints Go Missing at the Boston Public Library
When an employee at the Boston Public Library couldn't find a Rembrandt etching in its Special Collections archive on April 8, it probably didn't seem like too big a deal.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: German police catch up with Hitler's bronze horses, falling tourist takes Greek vase with her, and Swiss squatters brick up museum entrances.
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Yemeni War Leads to Massive Destruction of Cultural Heritage
It's not just Yemen's future that's at risk in the country's current civil war, but also its past.
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Does Adding Filters Make Your Photos More or Less Popular?
Filters, those in-camera photo editing presets that turn your so-so iPhone snapshots into Cartier-Bresson-esque encapsulations of the human spirit, have a direct impact on the popularity of the images shared on social media.
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The Most Inspiring Cities for Young Artists Ranked
The educational website WorldWideLearn recently culled data from the American Community Survey and the Local Arts Index to rank the 15 most creatively inspiring cities in the United States for aspiring young artists and art students.
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Uffizi Gallery Opens Exhibition Inside Mafia Boss's Former House
Next month, the doors of an Italian mob boss's former home will open to the public, thanks in part to the Uffizi Gallery.
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Cartoonist Goes on Trial After Being Tortured by Iranian Authorities
The inhumane conditions that 28-year-old artist Atena Farghadani has been subjected to over the past nine months in Iran are horrifying to consider.
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USC Roski Dean Denies the MFA Program Problems Claimed by #USC7
LOS ANGELES — Hyperallergic has received a new letter sent from Dean Muhl to the USC Roski community, and a "fact sheet" from the USC7.
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Artist Tania Bruguera Temporarily Detained During the Havana Biennial
Artist Tania Bruguera was detained by Cuban police yesterday in her Havana home after concluding the final reading of her project, the Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism.
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Historian Cracks a Code and Discovers a Possible Portrait of Shakespeare
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows," William Shakespeare wrote in a stanza from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: A mural was unveiled to coincide with Ireland's same-sex marriage referendum, New York's City Council passed a bill that requires open hearings on public art projects, and the FBI published a (heavily redacted) selection of its files on Buckminster Fuller.
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New French Report Zooms In on Field of Photography
Anecdotally, most people would probably agree that photography has changed more dramatically over the last 15 years than any other sector of visual art.