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Conflict Kitchen's Palestinian Programming Under Siege
Conflict Kitchen, the social practice eatery in Pittsburgh, has come under fire from the Israel advocacy organization B'nai B'rith International over its current programming on Palestine.
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Brooklyn Art Center Uses Airbnb to Fund Its Programming
We've all heard — perhaps even grown tired of hearing — of art organizations raising money on Kickstarter, but what about fundraising on Airbnb?
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Activists Picket Guggenheim Gala over Labor Abuses
Amid a phalanx of black-clad attendants, security, and ushers, the Guggenheim Museum welcomed guests to its annual International Gala. But not all who landed at the November 6 event were invited.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Selected artifacts from the British Museum are available to print in 3D, North Korea's UK embassy opened its first-ever art exhibition, and a rehearing on the California Resale Royalty Act is to be held on December 15.
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Judge Approves Historic Detroit Bankruptcy Plan, Protecting Its Museum
Judge Steven Rhodes approved Detroit's bankruptcy plan today, allowing the city to move out of insolvency in the coming weeks and slowly towards financial independence. Rhodes called the plan "fair and feasible," the Detroit Free Press reports, "providing the legal authority for the city to slash mo
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St. Louis Museum Scores Slam Dunk with $50M Art Gift
The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) has received a gift of 225 artworks, worth upward of $50 million, from the collection of the late Edith Spink and Charles Claude Johnson Spink, who died in 2011 and 1992, respectively.
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Protesters Unfurl Three-Story Banner in Guggenheim Museum
A thirty-nine-foot banner was unfurled in the rotunda of a sparsely-attended Guggenheim Museum this evening, the latest action carried out by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Front (G.U.L.F.) activist group.
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New Bushwick Gallery Hub Takes Shape on Willoughby Ave
A new gallery hub is emerging in Bushwick. The low, two-story industrial building at 1329 Willoughby Avenue is already home to Microscope Gallery, and in January 2015 two more galleries will open up there.
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5Pointz Developer Wants to Trademark "5Pointz"
The owner of 5Pointz, the former artists' studio complex and graffiti center in Queens that is currently being demolished, is trying to trademark the name "5Pointz" in order to market the apartments that will be built on the lot.
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Assessing the Destruction of Yezidi Shrines
Between (the lack of) access, confusion, fear, and propaganda, it can be very difficult to know if something is happening, or what is happening, to historic Yezidi shrines at the hands of the Islamic State.
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800,000 Pages of Patient Art and Mental Health Archives Are Going Online
A few weeks ago, the Wellcome Library announced a new initiative to digitize more than 800,000 pages of material from British psychiatric hospitals. Dating between the 18th and 20th centuries, the trove includes examples of patient artwork and writing, as well as patient-produced publications.
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Turkish and Kurdish Sites Burned in Nights of Unrest
When Turkey held its armed forces — and its citizen volunteers — back from intervening in the Islamic State's assault on the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria in early October, protests erupted.