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Artists Try to Light US Map on Fire, Burns Gallery … or Something
Today, in bizarre art news: a San Francisco gallery nearly went up in flames after an artwork that was purposefully set on fire burned a little too intensely.
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Cooper Union Art Faculty Rejects Proposal for Tuition
It's been two months since the Cooper 11 students ended their clock tower occupation, but the battle at the Cooper Union over the question of tuition is far from over. The latest news is that the faculty of the School of Art has taken a public stand against the idea of charging tuition.
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Woman Vandalizes Iconic Delacroix Painting at the Louvre
What is it with art vandalism these days? First there was the Picasso at the Menil Collection last summer, then the Rothko at the Tate Modern. Now a woman has defaced Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" at an outpost of the Louvre. Is this some kind of weird, terrible trend?
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Other Half of Courbet's Infamous "Origin of the World" Discovered in Paris #NSFW
Gustave Courbet's infamous "The Origins of the World," an intimate portrait of a female model's nether regions, has been shocking pretty much since it was painted in 1866. Even more shocking, though, is the fact that the painting has an upper half, which has been discovered by an amateur collector a
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Michigan Is Finding That the Arts Is a Growth Industry, Even During the Recession
Last summer, we reported that ArtsServe Michigan had releases statistics that suggest every $1 invested in the arts in the Great Lakes State yields $51 for the state's economy. If that didn't impress you then perhaps you will be surprised to hear that even during the recent recession the arts has be
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NASA Beams the Mona Lisa into Space
What do art mavens and NASA nerds have in common? Maybe not much. But late last month, the two were artfully brought together when the Mona Lisa was projected into outer space on laser pulses.
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An Istanbul Museum Is Auctioning Off its Art Collection
Today, Istanbul's art world is in shock over the news that works of art from the collection of the recently closed Santralistanbul Museum of Contemporary Art were set to hit the auction block in an upcoming sale.
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20x200 Suspends Operations, Is Art Still For Everyone?
The much beloved 20x200 affordable art retailer is "temporarily suspending operations," according to an email sent by company founder and CEO Jen Bekman last night to a number of contacts.
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What's Happening to Culture in Europe?
The latest news from Europe this week is that everything is falling apart — at least in terms of arts and culture. And it's depressing.
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Who Says LA Doesn't Read? Inaugural LA Art Book Fair Opens Today
AA Bronson, the internationally recognized artist and former president of New York's Printed Matter artist-book store, is currently in LA to launch the first ever LA Art Book Fair at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary space in downtown LA. Bronson, who is also the director of the NY Art Book Fair, says he's
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Library Discovers Hundreds of Hidden William Blake Engravings in Its Collection
Last week, a library in Manchester announced an incredible find: the institution holds hundreds of engravings by poet and artist William Blake that it didn't know it had.
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The Majority of Timbuktu's Medieval Manuscripts Are Safe
On Monday, Hyperallergic reported that Islamist rebels set fire to two historic libraries in the Malian city of Timbuktu (a UNESCO world heritage site), just as French forces and the Malian army pushed them out. The rebels may have destroyed 2,000 of the Ahmed Baba Institute's volumes of medieval-er