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Obama's Presidential Library May Gobble Up Historic Chicago Parkland
Is it wrong to commandeer space intended for public enjoyment to bolster a political legacy?
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Syrian Video Artists Risk Their Lives to Laugh at ISIS
A bearded man wearing sunglasses and a flak jacket sits on the ground beside a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as a pro-Assad song plays on the radio. He lifts up the lid of a cooking pot, and a genie emerges.
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As Professor Is Denied Entry, NYU Abu Dhabi Faces New Pressure to Evolve
ABU DHABI, UAE — This week the New York Times reported that New York University (NYU) professor Andrew Ross was denied permission to visit the United Arab Emirates after publishing numerous articles critical of the labor conditions in the region.
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Gunmen Attack Tunisian Museum, Killing 19 and Taking Hostages
On Wednesday gunmen stormed the Bardo Museum in Tunis, a popular tourist destination located next to Tunisian parliament, killing more than a dozen tourists and taking others hostage inside the museum.
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Part-Time Faculty Protest Conditions at the New School
On Monday protesters gathered outside the New School (TNS), a university in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to demand better conditions for the school's part-time faculty.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: Uncanny canine sculpture goes for a walk, German art dealer gets six years, and Navy veteran accused of improper flag use in baby photo shoot.
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Kenneth Goldsmith Remixes Michael Brown Autopsy Report as Poetry
This past weekend, at a conference called Interrupt 3 at Brown University, poet Kenneth Goldsmith read Michael Brown's St. Louis County autopsy report as a poem.
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A Folk Art Desk Mourns the US Civil War's Bloodiest Day
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, announced this week the acquisition of a curious memorial from the US Civil War that stands eight feet tall and is embedded with bone.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: One of the world's smallest artworks smashed, a $40 million lawsuit against the Keith Haring Foundation dismissed, and another major museum bans selfie sticks.
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Public Art for a Desert City with No Inhabitants
Does a city with no residents need public art? Absolutely, according to University of New Mexico (UNM) adjunct professor Sherri Brueggemann, who first heard about the Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation (CITE) plan last year.
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Mysterious Engravings Question Authorship of Shakespeare's Works
William Shakespeare was a commoner who wrote witty plays attended by Queen Elizabeth. Sir Francis Bacon was a noble who served as her Attorney General. Right?
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Looking for Leonardo in van Gogh's "Cafe Terrace at Night"
Did Vincent van Gogh hide an homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” in one of his most famous paintings?