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Oregon Brings Home the Bacon (Triptych)
Everyone's favorite triptych will be taking a trip to Portland, Oregon, the New York Times has reported.
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First Ever Woman Wins American Institute of Architects Prize … Posthumously
The American Institute of Architects has announced the winner of its 2014 AIA Gold Medal, and for the first time in over a century, the recipient will be a woman: Julia Morgan. It just so happens that Morgan died in 1957, but you know what they say: better late than never!
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Santa's Con: Protestors Challenge Serpentine Gallery on Unpaid Labor
Over the weekend, an activist group calling itself Future Interns descended upon the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park. Their objection, the Guardian reports, was to yet another instance of the art economy's exploitative labor model: uncompensated, administrative work under the guise of inter
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One Nation Under Satan: Religious Sculpture on State Property Rankles in Oklahoma
One only has to stumble over the last lines of the Pledge of Allegiance or look at the back of a dollar bill to see how monotheistic religion is cemented in the United States.
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Copyright Laws Are a-Changin' (Maybe) in the US and EU
The arena of copyright is a global morass of collaboration, appropriation, and theft. Rights management is a nightmare for artists and a cash machine for the legal profession, but two recent developments, one in the United States and the other in the European Union, aim, respectively, to expand the
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Art Movements
Hopi masks bought but will be returned, legal battle over Nazi-stolen Pissarro revived, Damien Hirst plans a town, Tenement Museum expanding, giant rubber duck explodes, and more.
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Two Long-Lost Peter Sellers Films Discovered in a Trash Can
Today's "holy crap!" story is the discovery of two long-lost Peter Sellers films that were salvaged from a trash can.
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Google Opens Its Online Exhibition Interface to All
Today, Google launched Google Open Gallery, which opens its online exhibition tools to any artist, museum, archive, or gallery.
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Where's the Money? US Arts and Culture Economy By the Numbers
An unprecedented survey of the role of the arts in the larger economy, last week's breakdown of the GDP contribution of America's creative industries in 2011 is illuminating and depressing, if not entirely surprising in its conclusions.
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Today Is #MuseumMascot Day!
Today is International Museum Mascot Day, and the animals, mummies, random curios, and other collection creatures that represent their respective museums are celebrating on on Twitter with the #MuseumMascot hashtag.
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Art Movements
Barnes Foundation president resigns, Ai Weiwei to take over Alcatraz, an illustrated tribute to Nelson Mandela, convictions in the Bolshoi acid attack, and more.
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Vatican and Oxford Launch Ambitious Digital Archive of Ancient Texts
The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library have some of the richest collections of ancient biblical texts, but most of them are inaccessible to the general public. Now, through a collaborative project, 1.5 million manuscript pages are being digitized for public access o