MoMA PS1 Receives $1 M. Gift from Teiger Foundation
MoMA PS1 has received a $1 million donation toward the funding of future exhibitions from the Teiger Foundation. A dedicate fund known as the Teiger...
Newsmakers: Jonathan Lethem Discusses His Abstract and Novelistic Book About Art
Jonathan Lethem’s Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture is not a conventional collection of writings about art. Lethem is most famous for writing novels...
Billionaire Rapper and Top 200 Collector Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter Slams Rape Allegations as ‘Cynical and Calculated’ Extortion
Jay-Z, the billionaire rapper and cultural icon, has been named alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in a lawsuit alleging the rape of a minor at a 2000...
Metropolitan Museum Reveals Designs for Long-Awaited Modern and Contemporary Art Wing
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has finally revealed its designs for a five-story wing dedicated to modern and contemporary art, an addition that has been...
Notre-Dame de Paris Rises Like a Phoenix from the Ashes
In April 2019, Parisians saw Notre-Dame de Paris, one of their most emblematic monuments and one of the world’s most elaborate examples of Gothic architecture,...
Warsaw Non-Profit Opens First Museum of Queer History in Poland
On Friday, Poland inaugurated its first museum dedicated to LGBTQ history, a milestone in a country where legal recognition for gay rights remains limited. Located...
Dorothy’s Red Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz Movie Sell for a Whopping $28 M. at Auction
A pair of red ruby slippers worn by the actress Judy Garland while playing Dorothy in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz sold...
Activists Stage Protest Calling on Attendees to Boycott Art Basel Until Miami Divests from Israel
A coalition of Miami-based advocacy groups staged a protest outside of the Miami Beach Convention Center on the second public day of Art Basel, calling...
West Palm Beach Black History Museum Project Receives $500,000 Grant
A $500,000 investment from the Quantum Foundation, a Florida-based non-profit, is boosting plans for Palm Beach County to build a Black history museum and research...
Seattle Art Museum Workers Allege Union Busting Amid Ongoing Strike
The Seattle Art Museum‘s union remains on strike one week after the workers began their stoppage. In a statement, the union claimed that the institution...
After Alleging Censorship, Nan Goldin Adds Message About Gaza and Israel to Work in Berlin
Following a widely discussed interview in which she alleged censorship, Nan Goldin has added a message about the people killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and the...
Top Berlin Museums Denounce Slashed Arts Budget: ‘Cuts Weaken Democracy’
Four high-profile contemporary art institutions in Berlin bitterly denounced plans by the city’s Senate to dramatically slash the budget next year for arts funding, a...
Senate Passes Bill Paving Way for Weitzman Jewish Museum to Join Smithsonian
The US Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would develop a plan to transfer the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia...
Paintings and Sculptures Confiscated from the Mafia by Italian Police Are Being Exhibited in Milan
When mafiosas aren’t drug trafficking or money laundering, it turns out some of them are busy collecting (stealing) valuable artwork. Eighty works, confiscated by the...