Jul 31, 2025
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...
Jul 30, 2025
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,...
Jul 30, 2025
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...
Jul 29, 2025
Robert Rauschenberg’s 32-foot-long (~9.7-meter-long) silkscreen painting “Barge” (1962–63) will be among over a dozen works exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan this fall, part of a global celebration of the late American artist’s...
Jul 26, 2025
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...
Jul 26, 2025
For our ongoing series of unsanctioned public art, we are back to Manhattan. Featured above are the prolific Qzar, Zwon and EXR. What follows are several more images of illicit artworks captured on the streets of Manhattan. The ever-active Wombat and ICBM Crew...
Jul 25, 2025
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...
Jul 25, 2025
A visitor with Amy Sherald’s painting “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024) at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) The painter Amy Sherald has rescinded her upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National...
Jul 23, 2025
President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the second time in the government’s latest blow to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...
Jul 23, 2025
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...
Jul 21, 2025
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...
Jul 21, 2025
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...