The New College of Florida (NCF), which has undergone a right-wing transformation led by Governor Ron DeSantis in recent years, said it will commission a statue honoring Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was killed by a gunshot at Utah Valley University two...
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the National Endowment for the Arts’s (NEA) application of the Trump administration’s ban on “gender ideology” to its grant review process violates the First Amendment. William Smith, a judge for the United...
A 61-year-old man was killed on the National Mall in Washington, DC, last week while delivery crews were unloading a racecar painted by Andy Warhol. Emergency personnel responded to a call east of the Washington Monument at 14th Street and Jefferson Drive shortly...
Karen Leader (front) was placed on “administrative leave” after right-wing social media accounts targeted her comments on Charlie Kirk. (all images courtesy Karen Leader) Karen Leader, a tenured associate professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic...
Clio Art Fair has been able to stay small after more than a decade in operation, but when you walk into the Chelsea art show, it doesn’t feel that way. The self-styled “anti-fair,” which returned this week for the second of its two consecutive New York City fall...
Clio Art Fair has been able to stay small after more than a decade in operation, but when you walk into the Chelsea art show, it doesn’t feel that way. The self-styled “anti-fair,” which returned this week for the second of its two consecutive New York City fall...
LOS ANGELES — For over a decade, Superchief Gallery has been a cornerstone of LA’s underground scene, showcasing street art, photography, and work made on the cultural fringes. Despite its role as an experimental hub, mounting financial challenges in recent years have...
Agnes “Aggie” Gund, an influential philanthropist who saw the arts as a powerful way to combat social injustice and education inequity, died yesterday evening, September 19, at the age of 87 in her home in Manhattan. Her daughter, Catherine Gund, confirmed her death...
One of Brooklyn’s most iconic artist studio buildings is in a precarious state after a five-alarm fire ravaged the 155-year-old warehouse in Red Hook late Wednesday night into Thursday morning. Smoke filled the third floor of 481 Van Brunt Street at 11:35pm on...
Adjacent to an unfolding mass inside Manhattan’s formidable St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a gaggle of reporters arranged themselves in front of an empty podium awaiting Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan on Thursday, September 18. Amid a profusion of anti-immigrant...
A Moscow court has sentenced five members of the exiled feminist art collective Pussy Riot to prison in absentia on charges relating to anti-war protest and performances critical of Vladimir Putin’s regime. The jail terms delivered by Judge Evgeniya Nikolaeva of...
At least four activists were arrested outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City on Wednesday morning, September 17, while forming a blockade in protest of two tenants they say are profiteering from Israel’s violence against Palestinians. Tucked in the...