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MoMA Latest Museum to Acquire Christian Marclay's "Clock"
We already knew New York is a 24-hr city, but with the acquisition of Christian Marclay's "The Clock" by MoMA, art lovers will have something to watch during every friggin' minute of it.
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Chinese Art Lovers Scratching Heads Over Student Claim
"…Chinese press…reported that that a painting, ‘Put Down Your Whip’ by Xu Beihong…which sold last year at auction in Beijing for 14 million dollars, is claimed to have been painted by an art student in the 1980s.Ten former students signed an open letter…stating that the painting had been ‘a class ex
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Rare Egyptian Book of the Dead Goes on View at Brooklyn Museum Tomorrow, Sept 28
Following a three year conservation project, the final section of the rare, Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose (c. 1539-1292 BCE) will go on long-term view at the Brooklyn Museum on September 28.
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Washington Monument Closed Indefinitely
"The National Park Service said Monday that the Washington Monument will be closed indefinitely and that the 5.8 magnitude earthquake in August had done more damage to the monument than had been previously disclosed." [WashPo [http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washington-monuments-elevator-damaged
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Cancelled Palestinian Kids' Art Show Finds New Venue in Oakland
The Palestinian children's art show that was slated to be exhibited at the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland, California before it was canceled under pressure from right-wing Jewish groups has found a new home nearby. [Mercury News [http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18971538?IADID]]
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Wackiest News of the Day: UFO at New Museum?
What the hell is that diamond-shaped object floating in the sky? A photographer shot this unidentified object from the New Museum's Sky Room Terrace, according to his testimony on a UFO site.
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Tension and Theater in the Picket Lines of #OccupyWallStreet
Today I walked the picket line with members of Occupy Wall Street who are in their seventh day of protest against big banks and corporations. As rain clouds darkened, a group of protesters began to assemble and lead the way out of Liberty Plaza, with several cops bringing up the line. Things remaine
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#OccupyWallStreet Invades Sotheby's Auction in Solidarity with Locked-Out Art Handlers
Occupy Wall Street and Sotheby's art handlers have joined forces under the banner of fighting for worker's rights and protesting corporate greed. Yesterday, members of Occupy Wall Street disrupted a Sotheby's art auction to show their solidarity with the union art handlers of Teamsters Local 814 who
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A Report from #OccupyWallStreet: Signs & Inspirations
"Today is day 5," read a sign in the midst of thousands of people camping out at Liberty Plaza yesterday, steps away from Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange. It's been a week since the Occupy Wall Street protests have gotten underway, and the protesters are not backing down, pledging to con
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Seaport's 19th C Print Shop Expected to Reopen
"The new managers of the struggling Seaport Museum New York have committed to reopen the 19th-century print shop Bowne & Co. Stationers, advocates said this week … at a closed-door meeting on Tuesday, the leaders of the Museum of the City of New York, which is taking over the Seaport Museum, promise
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Protester Says More Artists Required at #OccupyWallStreet
Today marks the fifth consecutive day of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a grassroots protests of over 2,000 people from all walks of life who have descended on Wall Street to speak out against corporate America's plundering of the lower and middle classes. In addition to organized demonstrations a
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Early Keith Haring Show Coming to Brooklyn
Keith Haring: 1978-1982, the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-loved American artists of last century will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 13 through August 5, 2012.