Israel Says It Will Hand Over Hebron Mosque to Settlers 

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...

Trump Gifted Epstein a Lewd Drawing on His Birthday, Report Says

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...

Yale Art Gallery Withdraws Federal Grant Requests After Trump DEI Ban

The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has withdrawn two federal grant requests for a forthcoming Southeast African art exhibition in the wake of Trump’s bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming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...

Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan Banana Invests $100M in Trump Crypto

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...

Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way 

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...

Bayeux Tapestry to Return to UK After Nearly 1,000 Years 

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...

Shamim M. Momin Is the Bronx Museum’s New Director

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...

Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway 

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...

What Were Federal Agents Doing at a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?

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...