Bizarre New Tina Turner Statue Gets Roasted Online 

A sculpture of Tina Turner was unveiled last week in Brownsville, Tennessee. (photo courtesy PLA Media) She’s simply the best. Better than all the rest. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the public sculpture made in her honor. Unveiled at the end of last month in her...

Outgoing MoMA Director Glenn Lowry to Advise Saudi-Backed Biennial 

Glenn Lowry, the outgoing director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, will work as an advisor to the Islamic Arts Biennale in Saudi Arabia, he revealed in an interview this week. Lowry, who announced his decision to leave MoMA last September, will be...

Trump Fires Majority of Federal Humanities Council 

The White House has fired the majority of the National Council on the Humanities, which reviews and recommends grant proposals and advises the chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Of the approximately 21 members appointed by various...

Artists Threaten to Boycott Venice Biennale Over Israeli Pavilion

Artists, curators, and cultural workers are threatening a boycott of the 61st Venice Biennale, slated to open on May 9, 2026, over its “complicit invitation” of Israel. In an open letter sent to Biennale organizers today, October 2, the anonymous activist...

How Will the US Government Shutdown Impact Museums?

The United States government has shut down, leaving many federal agencies and government programs in limbo as congressional Democrats and Republicans struggle to reach an agreement on funding. Federally funded arts and cultural institutions and monuments, including...

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art 

COSTA MESA — Just three years after it reopened in a brand-new $98 million facility, the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) has become part of the University of California, Irvine. In a statement released on Monday, September 29, the university announced that it had...

Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

Historians, librarians, and hundreds of volunteers are documenting objects and signs displayed throughout the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and at sites managed by the National Park Service, fearing that the Trump administration’s recent mandates are imperiling...

Philip Guston Painting Sparks Dialogue in a Local Museum

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Philip Guston’s “Cigar” (1969), now hanging in the McMeen Gallery of the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), presents a disconcerting image. One of 33 paintings first shown in Guston’s landmark 1970 New York exhibition, it depicts a...

BRIC and Bronx Children’s Museum Join Cultural Institutions Group

Five New York arts nonprofits — BRIC in Brooklyn, the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, the Bronx Children’s Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection on Staten Island, and the Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater — have joined the city’s Cultural Institutions...

Activists Condemn Arrest of NYC Protest Photographer Alexa Wilkinson

Protest photographer Alexa Wilkinson has been charged with a felony hate crime for allegedly sharing social media posts criticizing New York Times staff and for documenting activists who vandalized the media company’s headquarters in protest of its coverage of...