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A history of vandalism in one of the world's most famous monuments has been analyzed, revealing long-lost art. In a paper published this week in the quarterly review Antiquity, researchers used imaging technology to uncover the hidden paintings of Angkor Wat.
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Five alumni and admitted students have filed suit against Cooper Union's board of trustees, alleging that their behavior leading up to the historic end of free tuition violated duties prescribed by the school's charter, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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You might say it was bound to happen. And perhaps it was. But now it has happened: the legendary Hotel Chelsea has become a brand. Capitalism spares none.
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A former public school on 99th Street in Harlem redeveloped into artist housing under the auspices of El Barrio's Operation Fight Back has recently begun accepting tenant applications.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco’s oldest alternative arts space, has suspended curatorial programs and halved its staff, KQED reported last week.
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For better or for worse, museums tend to be behind the times, arbitrating culture from some kind of temporal remove. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is attempting to minimize that gap with a newly announced initiative called Rapid Response Collecting.
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Finnish street artist Sampsa and Egyptian street artist Ganzeer are being labeled as "terrorists" by various Egyptian media outlets, but why?
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Last night's protest action at New York's Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group's fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.
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A blaze erupted around noon GMT at the Glasgow School of Art's historic Mackintosh Building completed in 1909, the Scotsman reported.
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FBI confirms Gardner heist sightings, China museum full of fakes, Bill Viola goes on permanent display at St. Paul's, and more from the week in art news.
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If you needed another reason to wonder why Walmart might be one of the world's most evil companies, then the recent story pitting the retail giant against a family of photographers may fit the bill.
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McNally Jackson, one of New York City's marquee independent bookstores, is venturing into art with a new shop devoted to prints, editions, posters, art and artists' books.