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Biennial in Southeast Turkey Faces Backlash on Opening Weekend
Critics accuse the Mardin Biennial of exoticizing the city’s multilayered cultural heritage and ignoring the local context.
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Such Sad! Kabosu, Dog Who Inspired Doge Meme, Dies at 18
The beloved canine was honored with her very own bronze sculpture in Japan last year.
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A Quarter of Wyoming's Rock Art Has Been Vandalized, Report Finds
The state is home to hundreds of Indigenous petroglyphs and pictographs dating back centuries.
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New Kate Middleton Portrait Gets Dragged by the Internet
It’s tough times out there for royal portraitists, and this less-realistic visage of the new People’s Princess stood no chance of being well-received.
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Have Pro-Palestine Artworks Been Censored in Your State?
An online map by the National Coalition Against Censorship tracks artists who have faced professional consequences for “invoking Israel or Palestine.”
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Hundreds of Artists Rally for Increased Culture Funding in Montreal
Artists and cultural laborers live in "unsustainable precariousness," according to advocates pushing Quebec’s Minister of Culture for more support.
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Flemish Renaissance Painting of Virgin and Child Kissing Heads to Auction
The restoration of Quinten Massys’s “Madonna of the Cherries” reveals exquisite details of an endearing (and maaaybe a little creepy) family moment.
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Native Artist’s Residency Canceled Over Painting Referencing Palestine
Danielle SeeWalker says she feels "tokenized" by the Town of Vail in Colorado, which took issue with her artwork “G is for Genocide.”
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Walker Art Museum Sued After Prohibiting Woman From Breastfeeding
Megan Mzenga “felt a deep sense that she was not welcome” after a museum staffer tried to remove her from the galleries for breastfeeding.
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Artist Kehinde Wiley Accused of Sexual Assault
Joseph Awuah-Darko claims the portrait painter assaulted him on two occasions at a dinner in Ghana in 2021, allegations Wiley denies.
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Hundreds Attend Historic "Counter-Commencement" for Columbia Students at NYC Cathedral
The ceremony was organized by members of the university faculty in a repudiation of leadership’s decision to send police to arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators.
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Striking Parsons Students Withdraw Artwork From Thesis Exhibition
A dozen students are staging an alternative BFA show in Brooklyn amid Students for Justice in Palestine’s ongoing strike against the New School.