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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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A Mark Rothko painting at the Tate Modern in London has been defaced by a vandal.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Last Thursday, the Chinese government rejected artist Ai Weiwei's appeal of a $2.4 million fine levied against his FAKE design studio company for tax evasion, a charge that most regard as trumped up to justify the artist's arrest last year. Ai says there's no way he'll pay.
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The Brooklyn Museum's GO Brooklyn event netted an estimated 147,000 studio visits to 1,708 artists over the weekend of September 8 and 9. Over the art-packed weekend (which we documented here), studio explorers nominated their favorite artists, and now we have the top 10 nominees. Surprisingly, none