Colorado Town Settles With Native Artist Who Brought Free Speech Lawsuit

Aug 26, 2025

Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta painter Danielle SeeWalker has settled a civil rights lawsuit with the town of Vail, Colorado, more than a year after the municipality cancelled her artist residency over a pro-Palestine artwork. Brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)...

Lawsuit Condemns Pro-Slavery Message in North Carolina Monument 

Aug 22, 2025

As the Trump administration sets its sights on reinstalling Confederate monuments toppled at the height of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, a lawsuit over one statue at a North Carolina courthouse quietly advances in federal court. Outside the Tyrrell County...

Mickalene Thomas Accused of Harassment and Nonpayment by Ex-Fiancée

Aug 20, 2025

Mickalene Thomas’s former fiancée and business partner has accused the contemporary artist of sexual harassment, nonpayment, and workplace retaliation in a lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court on August 8. Racquel Chevremont is seeking at least $10...

Court Sides With Peter Doig in Bizarre Authorship Lawsuit

Aug 11, 2025

A federal judge in Illinois sided with Scottish artist Peter Doig last month in an outlandish decades-long legal dispute over a desert landscape the painter denies creating. On July 29, the court upheld an earlier ruling that a Chicago art dealer, the disputed...