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China's destruction of some 6.1 tons of seized ivory earlier this month may have seemed like a small dent in a country where around 70% of the illegal trade is concentrated, but it was an encouraging sway in the right direction.
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The National Endowment for the Arts is slated to receive a budget of $146.02 million per the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill released by Congress late yesterday. The figure is down from the Obama administration's proposed $154.47 million and roughly on par with 2013's allocation of $146.26 million.
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All is not well in Albion, where the business of art is apparently getting ever more lugubrious.
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On January 11, marking the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, activists from the group Witness Against Torture commandeered the lobby of the National Museum of American History.
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Nearly 300 houses were destroyed in a major fire that destroyed about two thirds of Dukezong in Shangri-La county on Saturday, January 11. The 1,300-year-old city is a popular tourist destination in the southwest Yunnan province is renowned for its ancient Tibetan town of mostly wooden houses with c
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In an unprecedented move, nine local and national foundations have pledged $330 million to help the city of Detroit settle its bankruptcy, the Detroit Free Press reported.
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Computer scientists at Stony Brook University have developed an algorithm that predicts, with an accuracy reaching 84%, the "success" of a novel.
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In an email to the Cooper Union community sent a little after 8pm EST, board of trustees chairman Richard S. Lincer conceded that "tuition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future."
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Renderings released for the MoMA expansion, Castro makes an arts appearance, illegal ivory destroyed in China, groundhogs infest the Crystal Bridges green roof, and more from the week in art news.
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Sometimes museums and archives don't know the treasures they already have, collecting dust on some forlorn shelf or hidden away in a forgotten box. Through mislabeling or earlier disorganization, great works of art and history are sometimes lost for years before being "discovered" right inside the m
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is proceeding with its controversial plans to bulldoze the American Folk Art Museum building, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
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Arsonists torched a historic and beloved library in Tripoli, while the Canadian government has gutted its science libraries.