News
Protesters Demand “Where Is Ana Mendieta?” in Tate Modern Expansion
LONDON — Posters all around London advertising Tate Modern’s new building proudly proclaim: “Art Changes. We Change.”
Protest
News
Greenpeace Activists Climb the British Museum to Protest BP Sponsorship
Today, the British Museum received a guerrilla re-branding from activists urging it to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, an agreement now in talks for possible renewal next year.
News
Treatment of Adjuncts Spurs Protests at Pacific Northwest College of Art
Students and teachers at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, protested on campus this week, demanding that adjunct professors be rehired with contracts after some of the college's most influential educators were unceremoniously left out of next semester's class schedule.
News
Paris's Art Models Protest for Job Security and Better Wages
PARIS — On Saturday afternoon, people trickled across the large plaza in front of the Hôtel de Ville.
News
Guards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Protest Changes They Fear Could Endanger Collection
BOSTON — Last weekend, gallery guards of the Museum of Fine Arts were standing outside the institution’s main entrance on Huntington Avenue holding signs, passing out leaflets, and singing as part of their ongoing protest.
News
Artists and Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” in Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests at the Louvre
PARIS — As leaders from around the world met here for a tenth day of climate change policy negotiations, more than a hundred activists and members of several art collectives gathered at the Louvre this afternoon to highlight the institution’s ties to the fossil fuel industry.
Art
Photography and Foreboding in 1970s Japan
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979 offers an ambitious social and art history of a decade ignited by protest, shaped by global power dynamics, and visualized through new art forms.
News
Decrying Real Estate Summit, Artists Stage Demonstration Outside Brooklyn Museum
"Gentrification in progress," read the tape, its black type printed on yellow strips as all good warnings are.
News
Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Real Estate Summit at Brooklyn Museum
More than 100 activists and artists affiliated with community groups from throughout the city gathered at the Brooklyn Museum this morning to protest its hosting of the 2015 Brooklyn Real Estate Summit.
![G.U.L.F. Occupies Israeli Pavilion in Venice, Calls for Cultural Boycott [UPDATED]](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/size/w600/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/08/occupation-second-floor_home.jpg)
News
G.U.L.F. Occupies Israeli Pavilion in Venice, Calls for Cultural Boycott [UPDATED]
Yesterday the Gulf Labor Coalition, which is an official participant of the central exhibition of the 2015 Venice Biennale, and the G.U.L.F. (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction) group staged a variety of protest actions at the international exhibition.
In Brief
Will Christians Crash Satanic Statue Unveiling in Detroit?
Last month, Oklahoma's Supreme Court ruled that officials must remove a nearly six-foot-tall statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state's capitol, thwarting the Satanic Temple's plans to install its own statue of Baphomet to challenge government endorsement of religious symbols.
In Brief
Debt in Venice: German Pavilion Artists Show Support for Greece
In response to the German government's insistence on imposing austerity measures on Greece, the artists representing Germany at this year's Venice Biennale have made a simple but powerful statement in support of the debt-ridden nation.