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One Pussy Riot Member Released, Others Still Behind Bars
Yekaterina Samutsevich, the oldest member of the Russian art-punk band Pussy Riot, was released from prison today, though the other two younger members remain behind bars.
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26-Year-Old Wlodzimierz Umanets Arrested For Defacing Tate Rothko (UPDATE 7)
The Metropolitan Police have just announced via Twitter that a man has been apprehended for the Rothko incident at the Tate Modern.
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Dancing Outlawed at the Brooklyn Museum
Museums all want to be popular with their local audiences, courting art fans with lectures, events, and activities. But what happens when a museum gets a little too popular? The Brooklyn Museum has been forced to alter its Target-sponsored free First Saturdays because the monthly parties are getting
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CONFIRMED: Rothko Defaced at Tate Modern (UPDATE 14: Rothko Family Speaks)
A Mark Rothko painting at the Tate Modern in London has been defaced by a vandal.
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2012 ArtPrize Winners Announced, $200K to Adonne Khare, $100K to Design 99
Over 47,000 voters and a handful of art critics cast their ballots for ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the winners of this year's competition have been announced.
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Museum Union Battle Ends in San Francisco
After a year of tense negotiations, a breakdown in negotiations, protests and actions and then more negotiations, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 have settled their dispute! It's a happy day for art news.
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Frank Lloyd Wright House Escapes Demolition for Now
A few days ago, we asked whether the New York Times could save a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix from demolition. The answer, it appears, is yes — at least for now.
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Trading Public Art for Social Services?
England has been facing austerity measures and budget cuts for the past few years, particularly in the arts, but this particular case seems to present a poignant illustration of the conflict between economic hardship and visual art. A Henry Moore sculpture first installed in a public housing develop
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Will The NY Times Be Able to Save a Frank Lloyd Wright House?
A stunning spiral house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Phoenix, Arizona, faces potential demolition as soon as tomorrow. Wright built the house in 1952 for his son David, but the property is currently owned by a developer called 8081 Meridian, which is threatening to destroy it.
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Smithsonian's Art of Video Games to Tour Across the U.S.
If there was ever any doubt that video games are one of our era's strongest forms of art (I'm looking at you, Roger Ebert), the Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibition The Art of Video Games should have erased them. The mammoth exhibition featured over 80 games, with playable consoles, concept
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Cinecittà Workers Suspend Strike
The 200 workers who went on strike beginning in July to protest the potential fate of Italy's beloved film studios, Cinecittà, have returned to their jobs — at least temporarily.
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ArtLeaks Plans Gazette to Talk About Art-World Corruption
The art world is a notoriously secretive place. Even though it's pretty much universally agreed upon that the system and its attendant economics are royally screwed up, people are still hesitant to talk openly about the problems. In the past year, thankfully, this has been shifting a bit, due in par