No Other Land Contributor Killed by Israeli Settler

Awdah Hathaleen, a beloved Palestinian activist and teacher who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land (2024), was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday in Umm al-Khair, in the Occupied West Bank. Yuval Abaraham, an Israeli investigative...

Fire on Miccosukee Reservation Engulfs Homes and Artifacts 

Photos of the blaze captured by Khadijah Cypress and her siblings Trent, Courtney, and Zack (all photos courtesy Khadijah Cypress, unless noted otherwise) A three-alarm fire tore through parts of the Miccosukee Reservation in the Florida Everglades on Sunday night,...

Met Museum Trustee Among Victims of Midtown Manhattan Shooting

Wesley LePatner (image courtesy Blackstone) Wesley LePatner, an elective trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Blackstone executive, was among the four individuals killed after a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building yesterday evening, July...

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Lays Off 12 Workers

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), the umbrella institution overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums in the city, laid off 12 workers, citing a 20% drop in museum visitors since the pandemic and “increased operational costs.” The...

Andres Serrano Proposes Trump Altar for the Venice Biennale

New York City-born artist and provocateur Andres Serrano wants the United States Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale to showcase his apparently uncritical display of more than a thousand Trump memorabilia items, including a flattering, warm-hued portrait of the...

Trump Withdraws US From UNESCO, Again

President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the second time in the government’s latest blow to global cultural heritage preservation. In a brief statement posted to the...

Met Museum Announces Highest Attendance Numbers Since 2019 

Amid rollbacks in federal arts funding and sweeping layoffs at cultural institutions across the United States, visitor attendance appears to remain on a steady incline at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Manhattan museum announced yesterday, July 21, that more than...

Visa Denials Create Hurdles for Artist Residencies 

Every year, two dozen artists from around the world travel to the United States to participate in a month-long summer residency at the nonprofit arts center Art Omi. The highly competitive program is held at the organization’s 120-acre campus in Ghent, New York, where...

New Zealand Wants to Be the “Best Place to Have Herpes”

These days, everyone is trying to go viral, but when it comes to herpes, there’s still a lot of associated shame and depression. A recent ad campaign by the New Zealand Herpes Foundation (NZHF) is calling for the destigmatization of the condition with a clever and...