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LA Googie Landmark Saved from Demolition, for Now
LOS ANGELES — At a hearing earlier today, Los Angeles’ Culture Heritage Commission voted to consider granting Historic-Cultural Monument status to Norms Coffee Shop on La Cienega.
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Who Are the (Potential) Art Winners Among the 2015 Oscar Nominees?
The nominees for the 2015 Academy Awards are out today, and from Mr. Turner to Finding Vivian Maier, there's a fair chance of some visual art films taking home gold-plated statuettes and adding Oscar medallions to their DVD cases.
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California Governor's Proposed Budget Would Halve Arts Funding
After a landmark year in California's state funding for the arts that saw support for the California Arts Council's boosted by $5 million, Governor Jerry Brown's proposed state budget for 2015–16 allocates just $1.1 million to the organization.
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Art Spiegelman Criticizes US Press for Not Publishing ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cartoons
In an interview published by the AFP on Sunday, the American comic artist Art Spiegelman lambasted the US press for not republishing the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoons.
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New FAA Regulations Could Shoot Down Artists' Drone-Based Projects
Regulations being proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) could clip the wings of artists who use drones in their practice.
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US Arts Attendance on a Downward Trend, NEA Studies Find
New studies released today by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and based on surveys carried out in 2012 claim that arts attendance in the US has continued to drop over the past two decades, but both struggle to incorporate digital activities into their findings.
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Strange Realities: US Culture Industry Has Fewer Jobs but More Money
Arts and culture matter much more to the economy than previously known, according to a new report issued by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The Belvedere Torso is to travel to the UK for the first time, a London college is offering the world's first-ever course on selfies, and a punk band recovered a stolen George Rodrigue "Blue Dog" painting.
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Hood Museum Digitizing 4,000 Indigenous Artifacts
By this summer, Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art plans to have over 4,000 Native American art objects digitized.
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Private Giving Sustains Art Museums, Study Finds
The average museumgoer in the US, Canada, and Mexico spends $7.93 during her visit (the average museumgoer must not be in New York City), while the museum spends $53.17 on her, according to the Association of Art Museum Directors.
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France Reduces Tax on Artworks Sold by Their Makers
France just made it a little easier for artists to sell their work directly to collectors.
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Visual Tributes to the Victims of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Artists and designers around the world are offering their visual tributes to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and we've collected some of the most poignant.