This Felix Gonzalez-Torres Artwork Is Currently Installed at 1,000 Sites...
A worldwide exhibition of Felix Gonzalez-Torres' 'Untitled (Fortune Cookie Corner)' encourages questions about what it means to experience art in isolation, and how human connections can still be formed.
View ArticleMuseum of Fine Arts Houston Provides an Example for Art Institutions...
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has found itself in a position of setting an example for other institutions as the first major US museum to reopen amid easing COVID-19 restrictions.
View ArticleChristo’s Early Artistic Inspiration Came From Working in the Fields of Bulgaria
During his youth in Bulgaria, Christo was sent as a youth-brigade worker to make farmland and fields seem more aesthetically pleasing. The artist fled the country in 1957.
View ArticleIncarcerated Artists are Expressing the Urgency of Clemency During COVID-19
The infection rate of COVID-19 at local New York City jails has been more than seven times higher than the city's average infection rate, and 87 times higher than the country at large.
View ArticleOnline Art Viewing Is Finally Being Embraced—But Does That Make It More...
There may be more ways than ever to view art via your smartphone, but that doesn't mean the barriers to accessing art have been broken down.
View ArticleMet Opera’s Huge Chagall Murals Are Being Used to Reassure the Company’s...
Since the pandemic has forced the company to shut down, the Met has found itself in dire financial trouble.
View ArticleArtist Jammie Holmes Flies Banners Across the Sky to Remember George Floyd’s...
'The use of sky media to recount Floyd’s final words presents a contrast to the noise of digital media,' Holmes wrote in a statement.
View ArticleViral YouTube Video Uses Ad Revenue to Raise Money for Black Lives Matter...
Zoe Amira's hourlong video featuring the work of black musicians, poets and artists has reached 5 million views and counting.
View ArticleGraffiti Is Important to the Tradition of American Dissent
As protests concerning police brutality have continued, demonstrators have left graffiti behind to make sure their voices are heard.
View ArticleWalker Art Center Terminates Its Relationship With Minneapolis Police
'Enough is enough. George Floyd should still be alive. Black lives matter,' the Walker stated via the museum's Instagram account.
View ArticleTitus Kaphar Paints a Grieving Black Mother for the Cover of ‘Time’ Magazine
'In her expression, I see the Black mothers who are unseen, and rendered helpless in this fury against their babies,' Kaphar writes.
View ArticleThe Guggenheim’s First Black Curator Is Denouncing the Museum’s Treatment of Her
Chaédria LaBouvier's 2019 Basquiat exhibition should have been a triumph, but instead, she says, it was a professional nightmare.
View ArticleIncarcerated Art Dealer Mary Boone Has Been Released From Prison Early
Boone may be able to serve at least part of the rest of her sentence in home confinement.
View ArticleNYC’s Tiniest Museum Releases a Jumbo Catalog of 2020 Exhibitions That Won’t...
'I have always felt that a museum in a city is like a book on a bookshelf,' says Mmuseumm cofounder Alex Kalman. With the tiny institution currently closed, a book is exactly what they decided to create.
View ArticleProtesters All Over the World Are Tearing Down Racist Monuments
Over the weekend, demonstrators in Bristol tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and tossed it into the harbor.
View ArticleBanksy Is No Stranger to Using the American Flag as a Symbol Within His Work
In a painting made in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, Banksy depicts the American flag burning.
View ArticleMicrosoft Asks Artist Shantell Martin to Paint a Protest Mural While It’s...
Artist Shantell Martin shared an email received from McCann asking her to paint a mural for Microsoft's 5th Avenue store, 'while the protests are still relevant...no later than this coming Sunday.'
View ArticleNew on the Block: Rare Rembrandt Self-Portrait From Private Collection Goes...
The self-portrait, which has rarely been seen as it's been held in a private collection, is expected to sell for at least $15 million.
View ArticleFormer Whitney Board Member Warren Kanders Says His Business Will No Longer...
Kanders stepped down from the board of the Whitney in 2019 after protests objecting to his profiting off of the sale of tear gas.
View ArticleBRIC President Kristina Newman-Scott Wants to Help Artists Become Leaders
'There’s all of these organizations that are predominantly white-led that are creating programs that are focused on the Black community, but the leadership structure never changes.'
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