When Casino Developers Use Museums to Sweeten the Deal 

History museums and blackjack tables might not seem to cater to the same audience. But two developers bet that including cultural institutions in their proposals to open new casinos in New York City would entice community leaders to approve their bids. SL Green...

AI Company Says It Has Outsmarted Caravaggio Experts

An artificial intelligence company claims to have outsmarted decades of research by expert art historians using only a photograph. The Swiss AI research company Art Recognition says a painting long believed to be a copy of a work by Caravaggio is in fact an original...

Artists Are Projecting Satirical Anti-Trump Images Around LA 

On Monday, September 22, a projection of FBI Director Kash Patel looking back and forth with widened eyes appeared on a building on 2nd Street and Beaudry Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. Other digital projections parodying Trump and his allies have been popping up...

See Photos From the Massive Protest Against Netanyahu in NYC

Thousands of demonstrators calling for an end to Israel’s mass killings of Palestinians gathered in New York City’s Times Square on Friday morning, September 26, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the podium to address the United Nations...

Lisa Phillips to Depart as Director of New Museum

After 26 years as director of the New Museum, Lisa Phillips will step down from her role in April 2026, the Lower Manhattan institution announced yesterday, September 25. The news, shared in a press release stating that Phillips will “retire from the Museum” at the...

A New Digital Map Charts Queens’s Arts and Culture Landscape 

Limited visibility and geographic isolation are common hurdles for many artists residing in the New York City borough of Queens, in part due to the prevalence of transit deserts — areas with insufficient public transportation — which hinders inter-community...

A New Digital Map Charts Queens’s Arts and Culture Landscape 

Limited visibility and geographic isolation are common hurdles for many artists residing in the New York City borough of Queens, in part due to the prevalence of transit deserts — areas with insufficient public transportation — which hinders inter-community...

New Reports Expose the Global Toll of Censorship

When surveillance and censorship abound in the name of security, the arts tend to serve as the proverbial “canary in the coal mine,” signaling the suffocating effects of repression as it takes hold. The latest data, then, should be cause for alarm: 70% of the world’s...

London’s National Gallery to Open New Wing

London’s National Gallery, home of Western masterpieces from the 13th to early 20th centuries, will build a new wing to accommodate an “expanded collection” with an infusion of £375 million (~$500 million) in private donations. The project marks the most...

Israeli Artists Urge Judy Chicago to Withdraw Tel Aviv Exhibition

Over 50 artists and performers have signed a letter calling on Judy Chicago to withdraw her exhibition on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as defined by a United Nations committee this month. “Presenting art that speaks...

Hand-Holding Trump and Epstein Statue Appears on National Mall

A statue of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein holding hands mysteriously appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC, this morning, September 23. The anonymous monument, billed as a cheeky tribute to the pair’s chummy alliance...

This Frida Kahlo Painting Could Shatter Auction Records

It took less than two minutes for Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait “Diego and I” (1949) to crush auction records in a 2021 Sotheby’s auction. Fetching a price of $34,883,000 with fees, Kahlo’s painting became the most expensive work by a Latin...