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This past December, Uganda's Parliament passed an Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would extend criminalization of homosexuality to life in prison and up to seven years for advocacy work. Nkoyooyo Brian decided to respond with an anthem for the country's LGBTQ community.
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Photography was rare in the early days of California urban development, but some pioneer practitioners did get out to the burgeoning bustle of Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Now one collector's passionate focus on photography of 19th-to-mid-20th-century California has culminated in 4,600 images being
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UNESCO pledges support for Cairo museum, George Bellows painting leaves Virginia for London, major Islamic art loan at the Dallas Museum, missing Empire State Building art, and more from the week in art news.
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The huge news story out of Japan today is that renowned classical music composer composer Mamoru Samuragochi is a fraud. It turns out Samuragochi, who's been hailed as a genius and, because he was deaf, a contemporary Japanese Beethoven, had been hiring someone else to write his compositions for him
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In response to a public outcry, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, has canceled an exhibition of Polaroid photographs taken by the French-Polish artist Balthus, The Art Newspaper reported.
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Can and should a government sell art to help pay off its debts? That's been the question driving ongoing discussions about Detroit, but it's also being raised across the Atlantic, where 85 works by Joan Miró were withdrawn from a Christie's auction this week.
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In a motion disposed on the 31st of January, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick summarily dismissed all but one of six charges brought against international gallerist Larry Gagosian by the financier Ronald Perelman, Businessweek reported.
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In a statement released earlier this evening, the Gulf Labor advocacy group has responded to a report on labor conditions at Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island cultural development produced by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) consultancy.
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Major online archives of accessible images have become regular news out of museums, and part of the reason is stories like this: elementary school kids in the South Bronx have used a photograph from one of those archives to bring about historic recognition for a long-forgotten slave burial ground.
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An organization called ArtsHub has conducted an arts jobs survey in the UK, and the results make clear just how difficult and unsustainable it is to work in the arts.
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Visual art professionals are not making use of fair use, a new report issued by the College Art Association (CAA) says, in large part because they're concerned about the repercussions of not obtaining copyright permissions.
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The oldest-known landscape painting might have been created in modern-day central Turkey, according to a new study.