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Art World Rallies Around Bank-Robbing Filmmaker
It was intended as a provocative video performance. Late last year, Joseph Gibbons walked into banks in New York and Rhode Island and videotaped himself robbing them.
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USC Art Alumni Issue Letter in Support of #USC7
LOS ANGELES — In response to the recent decision of the entire first-year USC MFA class to collectively withdraw from their program, a group of over 70 alumni of the Roski School of Art and Design has issued an open letter of support.
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Director of Frankfurt's Ethnographic Museum Fired Without Explanation
Last month the city of Frankfurt fired Clémentine Deliss, the director of its museum of non-Western art, the Weltkulturen Museum, preemptively ending a contract that was due to run through March 31, 2018.
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As Contract Deadline Looms, MoMA Workers Deliver Letter to Director Glenn Lowry
This morning about 100 Museum of Modern Art employees who are members of the United Autoworkers' Local 2110 delivered an open letter to museum director Glenn Lowry in his office.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Brigitte Bardot goes after artist for using her image, tourists snap naked group photo on sacred Malaysian mountain, and Russia crucifies trash Jesus.
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NY State Senate Passes Bill Protecting Art Authenticators from Bogus Lawsuits
Art authenticators can finally breathe a sigh of relief: on Monday, the New York State Senate passed much-anticipated legislation that protects them against frivolous libel lawsuits.
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Could Emoji Replace Pin Numbers?
Emoji have been widely praised for the way they can foster better communication. But what if they could also make it easier to remember things — for instance, the password to your bank account?
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The Demolished Buddhas of Bamiyan Are Reborn as 3D Projections
This month the two sixth-century Buddhas of Bamiyan demolished in Afghanistan were temporarily returned to their towering places in the Bamiyan cliffs through 3D projection.
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Liberate Tate Annotates Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 25-Hour Guerrilla Protest
Activist art collective Liberate Tate completed a 25-hour unsanctioned performance inside Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall on Sunday, urging the institution to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, one of the world's largest oil companies.
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Protesters Demand Smithsonian Kick David Koch Off National Museum of Natural History Board,
WASHINGTON, DC — Chanting "kick Koch off the board" and lifting signs with slogans like, “climate deniers out of science museums,” a crowd of protesters picketed in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) just after 12:30pm.
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Graffiti Artists Sue 5Pointz Developer for Whitewashing Their Murals
Nine artists are suing Jerry Wolkoff, the owner of the 5Pointz site in Long Island City, Queens, for destroying their murals when his company G&M Realty had the building whitewashed in November 2013.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: CBC News host Evan Solomon was fired for secretly brokering art sales, MCA Australia cancelled its Marina Abramović retrospective, and the world's earliest known cello went on display at the Met Museum.