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In what can only be described as the most unbelievable turn of events around the Beast Jesus debacle, Techdirt says the woman at the center of the global sensation is claiming copyright and wants a cut of the tourist money bonanza that has hit the small Spanish church.
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Rome's Cinecittà Studios have provided the sets for some of the most famous movies in Western cinema: William Wyler's Ben-Hur, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part III, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient, Roberto Benini's Life Is Beautiful, and Martin Sco
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Edvard Munch’s iconic "The Scream" (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24.
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The Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) is forcing students to buy an art history book for $180 — which wouldn’t be unheard of, but the catch is that the publishers of this book didn’t get any of the image rights for the artwork it includes. To reiterate, that’s an art history survey without an
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We've written before about the plague of unpaid internships in the art world, so we were super excited to see that Arts Council England is launching a £15 million ($24 million) program to help pay arts and culture interns across the UK. Called the Creative Employment Programme, the project will supp
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In keeping with Christo's announcement last month that his planned Colorado project, "Over the River," would be indefinitely postponed, federal judge John Kane has ruled that the artist cannot move ahead with the project until a lawsuit attempting to stop it is resolved.
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The economic argument is being used increasingly by arts institutions as they assert their role as economic engines, and New York's Metropolitan Museum is at the forefront of trumpeting its power in the realm of tourism.
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It looks like pressure from directors, actors, and high-profile members of the film community around the world has worked: Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia, who went missing a few weeks ago, has been freed.
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After 110 years hidden in a tin at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, researchers have discovered what are believed to be the world's oldest color films. Created by cinematic pioneer Edward Raymond Turner, the films date to 1902 and depict the inventor's children, a girl on a swing, and sold
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement, the protest that popularized the now-ubiquitous term "99 percent, began last year on September 17. The events in Zuccotti Park kicked off an international storm of activism, and though the movement has been less visible as of late, the one-year anniversary is quickly
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Today we take it for granted that we have photographs of pretty much everyone: famous or not, smartphone-owning or not, Instagram-using or not. It's hard to imagine anyone becoming famous without an attendant cache of images to identify them.
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In the latest story of the Syrian government cracking down on artists, independent filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia has gone missing, presumably detained by Syrian authorities.