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Voters Rescue Detroit Institute of Arts
The proposed millage to help keep the Detroit Institute of Arts afloat passed all three counties yesterday — woohoo!
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Occupy Wall Street Launches Pop-Up Art School
Hyperallergic devotees may remember that the Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture Working Group camped out at our headquarters for a two-month residency earlier this year. Now Occupy with Art, an affiliate of the working group, is taking up residence for three months at Bat Haus, a new coworking space
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LA MOCA to Deitch: “No, You Can’t Do Everything”
In a fairly abrupt turnaround, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art announced yesterday that it will hire a new chief curator, after the controversial resignation at the end of June of Paul Schimmel, who held the chief curator position for 22 years. Originally, MOCA had announced that it would
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Influential Art Critic Robert Hughes, 74, Dies
Australian-born New York art critic Robert Hughes passed away today at the Calvary Hospital in the Bronx after a long battle with illness.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Fights for Survival with a Local Tax
This coming Tuesday, August 7, voters in the Metro Detroit area will be deciding not just the outcome of the usual political races, but also the future of the area's beloved art museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts. The DIA, which has been struggling financially for years, has proposed a 10-year mi
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Christo Announces Indefinite Delay in Colorado
The artist Christo appeared in Cañon City, Colorado, yesterday to announce the postponement of his controversial "Over the River" project. The 77-year-old artist did not give a new date for the project, saying only that the current legal issues need to be resolved before the work can go forward.
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Syrian Sculptor, Wael Kaston, Is Reported to Have Been Tortured and Killed
The stories of tragedy continue to roll out of Syria, though some have been disproven or highly doubted as Western propaganda, many are certainly true and now we learn of the death of the Syrian sculptor, Wael Kaston, 46, who was killed earlier this week in Homs, Syria, under what is believed to be
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Your Essential Guide to MOCApocalypse 2012
A lot has happened in the week and half since we last gave you an update on the situation at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art. Oh wait, except ... nothing's actually happened.
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NYPD Can't Take Criticism, Censors Legal Mural
Proving that art does still have the power to be controversial, and that the New York Police Department pretty much does whatever it wants, the NYPD dispatched two officers on Tuesday to paint over a mural that it didn't like.
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The Asia Art Archive's Collections Go Online
LOS ANGELES — As the Asian art market grows, so does the need for archiving the growing bodies of work being exhibited across the continent and beyond. Last month, I received word that the Asian Art Archive (AAA), the leading organization working on just that goal, has launched its collection online
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Painter Denyse Thomasos, 47, Dies Unexpectedly
Artist Denyse Thomasos, whose semi-abstract paintings evoke an architecture of floating cities, died suddenly yesterday. The cause was an allergic reaction during a diagnostic medical procedure.
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Are UK Police Cracking Down on Graffiti Artists Ahead of Olympics?
The British blogs and media are buzzing with reports that UK police are visiting the homes of graffiti writers in what appears to be an attempt to scare artists from leaving their mark during the city's Olympic spotlight.