Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE

Sep 12, 2025

Jorge Cruz selling his “antojitos del mar” at the Hammer Museum in July 2023 (all photos courtesy Ruben Ochoa unless noted) LOS ANGELES — A beloved street vendor who has provided food to hungry crowds at LA art events over the past two years is at risk of...

The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s “Artistic Freedom”

Sep 11, 2025

S-21 is the name of a former high school in Phnom Penh that Pol Pot turned into a secret torture center and extermination camp. Between 1975 and 1979, 14,200 people were executed there. For the sake of the regime’s bureaucracy, every man, woman, and child was...

Arts Community Rallies Behind Brooklyn Artist Displaced by Blaze

Sep 11, 2025

Members of New York City’s art community are fundraising to support performance artist and professor Ayana Evans and her partner after a fire tore through the top floor of their six-story Brooklyn apartment on Monday afternoon, September 8.  The blaze destroyed...

Major French Museums Close Amid Labor Strikes

Sep 11, 2025

Art museums and cultural monuments in France, including the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Arc de Triomphe, are partially or fully closed to the public today, September 10, in response to a country-wide labor strike over proposed government spending cuts....

Historic Singha Durbar Palace Destroyed as Nepal Protests Turn Deadly

Sep 11, 2025

Following similar unrest in Bangladesh and Indonesia, Nepal’s youth poured into the streets on Monday, September 8, to denounce alleged government corruption and a newly imposed social media ban with peaceful protests. As they spread across the country, the...