Jul 21, 2025
Israeli authorities in the Occupied West Bank are reportedly planning to seize control of the Ibrahimi Mosque, stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron Municipality of administrative responsibilities over the historic holy site. On Tuesday, July 15, the newspaper Israel...
Jul 19, 2025
A crude sketch of a naked woman allegedly hand-drawn by President Donald Trump was in a salacious 50th birthday album gifted to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Wall Street Journal report published yesterday, July 17. Trump has denied...
Jul 17, 2025
The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has withdrawn two federal grant requests for a forthcoming Southeast African art exhibition in the wake of Trump’s bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming and initiatives. To cover the $200,000 funding...
Jul 17, 2025
Crypto mogul Justin Sun is — unsurprisingly — making another controversial investment decision, and this time, we wish it were just an overpriced fruit duct-taped to a wall. Last Wednesday, July 9, the notorious buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s...
Jul 17, 2025
Flowing with rhythm and cadence, the current installation of murals at Underhill Walls is a delightful salute to music and musicians. The frenzied “Muppet Show” featured above was painted by veteran artist Phetus 88. Several more images from the most...
Jul 15, 2025
Nearly 150 artists, curators, and other cultural figures signed an open letter denouncing the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s decision to abruptly call off an exhibition centering on contemporary Franco-Creole, Caribbean French, and Guyanese art. The cancellation, which was...
Jul 14, 2025
The sky has been a source of inspiration for artists since time immemorial. But our collective understanding of just how far into the past artistic representations of this expanse may reach — and how faithfully they reflect actual cosmology — is an ever-changing...
Jul 14, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron met with the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on July 8 for the first visit of its kind since Brexit. The leaders discussed a laundry list of affairs, including migration through the English Channel, the war...
Jul 12, 2025
The Buffalo News published a cartoon about the Texas floods that sparked outrage from some audiences. (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic via @adamzyglis on Instagram) An event that spotlighted the work of a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Buffalo History...
Jul 12, 2025
Shamim M. Momin will begin her tenure as director and chief curator of the Bronx Museum. (photo by Sue de Beer, courtesy Bronx Museum) Shamim M. Momin, cofounder of the public art nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), will lead the Bronx Museum beginning this...
Jul 12, 2025
One of the best parts about aging, as an artist and a woman, is finding untapped confidence and reaching the absolute heights of your technical abilities and means of expression. Unless you are photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose recent Vogue cover shoot with actor...
Jul 11, 2025
Federal agents paid an unexpected visit to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (NMPRAC) in Chicago earlier this week in what the museum has described as a “targeted” attempt to intimidate staff and visitors ahead of a lineup of Latine cultural...