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175 Workers Face Lockout at Canada's National Gallery
The National Gallery of Canada may lock out 175 of its employees next month if negotiations between the museum and the union that represents the workers are not successful.
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Matchbox Artwork Sparks Censorship Calls at Madrid Museum
International museum associations have come to the defense of Spain's Reina Sofia museum after a provocative artwork drew fire from church groups.
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An Archive of Artists' Zines Takes Root in Philly
Philadelphia's Temple University is adding about 360 self-published art books and magazines to its library's special collections thanks to the artist and zine-maker Beth Heinly.
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50,000 of Norman Rockwell's Photographs Digitized
Norman Rockwell may be best known for his Saturday Evening Post cover illustrations and homey paintings of idealized Anytown, USA scenes, but in terms of sheer numbers he was primarily a photographer.
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Downtown Manhattan Museum Migration Gathers Momentum
Collector and publisher Peter Brant — whose Brant Publications Inc. publishes Art in America, Interview, and Antiques — is joining the influx of museums to downtown Manhattan.
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The First Shrine of Its Kind in Iraq Is Destroyed
Nearly a thousand years old — the 'first of its kind in Iraq', according to Archnet, and one of the last six standing, according to Iraq Heritage — the distinctive muqarnas-domed mausoleum is now a statistic.
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Occupy-Themed Light Projection Removed from Montreal Biennale
A politically charged video projection by the artist Isabelle Hayeur has been pulled from the Biennale de Montréal, after the owner of the building on whose exterior it was being shown complained.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: A wax house is melting in London, Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to three years in prison, and da Vinci's "Portrait of a Man in red chalk" (c.1512) is to go on public display in Turin.
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A Town Is Not a Museum, Appeals Court Rules
In settling the dispute of where one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century is buried, a ruling last week declared that a town can't be treated like a museum.
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Getty Unveils Unpublished Cache of Joseph Cornell's Letters
Joseph Cornell's curious admirers now have something to get excited about, thanks to the Getty Research Institute’s announcement yesterday that it has acquired a cache of 33 previously unpublished letters between Cornell and one of his first assistants, Susanna De Maria Wilson.
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Cultural Workers in Turkey Prepare for Hunger Strike over Underemployment
Cultural workers in Turkey are set to go on hunger strike in protest of their unemployment and its endangerment of the country's vulnerable cultural resources.
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750-Year-Old City Founded by Genghis Khan's Grandson Is Unearthed
It's hard to imagine a time when present-day Russia didn't exist. But along the banks of the Volga River in modern-day Saratov, a reminder is being unearthed.