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Last night five members of the Cooper Union's board of trustees resigned: real estate mogul Mark Epstein (the board's former chairman), Vassar College president Catharine Bond Hill, architects Daniel Libeskind and Francois de Menil (the board's vice chairman), and investment banker Monica Vachher.
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Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we'd written in the notorious naïveté of youth were read by strangers.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: cops catch Dale Chihuly employee stealing glass en masse, Nebraska teen lights sculpture on fire, and a Florida man's tin-foil-wrapped house is not a hit with neighbors.
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This weekend artist Tania Bruguera was arrested once again in Cuba, along with dozens of other activists, and was manhandled by the police.
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You might say that Boston was to John Singer Sargent what Florence was to Michelangelo.
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Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has said the country needs about $2 billion for reconstruction and has expressed the hope that all buildings — homes, businesses, and historic sites — will be back up in two years.
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PARIS — Feminism has happily challenged the given of the privileged male in relationship to the female model and forced a re-evaluation of a visual culture that viewed the world from a white heterosexual male perspective.
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Sometime this morning, a painting went missing from English Kills Art Gallery.
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A demonstration on Tuesday by workers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) did little to advance negotiations between a union representing over 200 employees at the institution and museum administrators, who are maintaining their call for a cut to employee healthcare coverage.
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The National Center for Historical Memory has announced an international competition to design a National Museum of Memory to commemorate the victims of the fighting in Colombia.
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This week in art news: Art Spiegelman withdrew his cover for the New Statesman, the Frick Collection abandoned its expansion plans, and Glenn Lowry's $2.1 million salary was scrutinized in the wake of MoMA's staff protests.
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This week, Pakistani high schools are distributing comic books that authorities hope will dissuade at-risk teenagers from joining militant organizations like the Taliban.