News
Bushwick's Bogart Salon Recalibrating, Not Closing
Earlier this week, Bushwick Daily reported some sad and surprising news: the Bogart Salon gallery would be closing on October 29. Only it turns out — happily! — this isn't true.
News
News
Nada Art Fair Threatens Galleries over Competing Fairs
The Nada Art Fair has sent a letter to the galleries included in its 2012 Miami fair, threatening that those who have also signed up to participate in the new, competing Untitled Miami fair will not be asked to return to Nada next year, Christian Viveros-Faune, writing at The Art Newspaper, reports.
News
A Roy Lichtenstein, Missing for 42 Years, Is Found
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's "Electric Cord" (1961), which mysteriously disappeared in January 1970, has been found.
News
French Government Backs Away from Taxing Art as Wealth
A proposal for an amendment that would tax art worth over $65,175 ran into immediate controversy in France from museums and cultural officials. The government is now backing far away from the change in the tax code, which has the potential to discourage donations of art to institutions, the Sun Dail
News
Picasso, Matisse and Monet Among 7 Masterpieces Stolen from Dutch Museum
According to a brief that BNO News translated from the Dutch police, seven works of art were stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam in Holland this morning. The massive art heist includes pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, and Lucian Freud, among others.
News
East Village Gets a New Historic District
This week New York's East Village went from having only two tiny historic districts (about a block long each) and a short list of individually landmarked sites to a much larger, newly approved historic district that covers a lot of ground, from the Bowery to Avenue A and from St. Mark's Place down t
News
New York's Best Kept Caribbean Secret Moves Uptown
An abandoned firehouse on the east end of 125th Street will be renovated and transformed into the new home of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute.
![Artists Cancel Creative Time Summit Appearances Over Israeli "Partnership" [UPDATE 7]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/10/rebel-diaz-ctsummit-home.jpg)
News
Artists Cancel Creative Time Summit Appearances Over Israeli "Partnership" [UPDATE 7]
Hip hop duo Rebel Diaz, artist Narcenio Hall and Cairo-based art collective Mosireen are boycotting the two-day 2012 Creative Time Summit in Manhattan because of what they are calling a partnership with an Israeli organization that is funded by the Israeli government.
News
Met Museum Makes Hundreds of Catalogues Available Online for Free
Bibliophiles rejoice! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has published 643 books about art and art history online, including the full contents of 368 out-of-print titles from 1964 to the present.
News
A Ukrainian Catholic Church Declares Taras Polataiko's Sleeping Beauty Project "Lesbian Propaganda"
CHICAGO — Fairytales are make-believe until a country's Catholic Church decides to protest them. Ukranian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko's experimental performance artwork "Sleeping Beauty," a modern-day retelling of the titular fairytale restaged at the National Museum of Art Ukraine from August 2
News
Divisive Funding Crisis Shuts Down National Museum of Bosnia
The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina shut its doors last Thursday because of a severe lack of funding. The museum had operated continuously for the last 124 years, even through the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, but a longstanding and infuriating political quagmire have made keeping it ope
News
Corcoran Students Install Giant "4 SALE" Signs to Protest Potential Sale
A series of photos posted on Tumblr a few hours ago show a creative protest against the Corcoran's plan to sell its Beaux-Arts palazzo building across from the White House in exchange for a new center in the DC suburbs. In the guerrilla installation, signs attached to the building spell out "4 SALE.