LOS ANGELES — Last Thursday, September 4, the Holocaust Museum LA posted a message on Instagram that was widely interpreted as a denunciation of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, which has been characterized as such by human rights organizations around the world. The...
Two days after police arrested almost 900 people at a demonstration in support of Palestinian activists in London, a new Banksy mural depicting a court judge violently striking a protester has appeared in the heart of the city. The famed elusive street artist shared...
Robert Grosvenor, whose work resisted artistic classification for more than six decades, died in Long Island, New York, on Wednesday, September 3, at the age of 88. His death was announced by Paula Cooper Gallery, which has represented the artist since the gallery...
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the White House presented last month as it attempts to assert control over the institution. Bunch’s direct response to the White House comes more than...
Historian and curator Kim Sajet, who recently left her longtime post as director at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after President Donald Trump claimed he had fired her, will be the next director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), the institution announced...
Polymathic artist Rosalyn Drexler — Pop Art icon, Emmy-winning screenwriter, and one-time wrestler — passed away at her home in New York yesterday, September 3, at age 98. Her death was confirmed by Garth Greenan Gallery, which represented her for a decade. ...
Over a month after painter Amy Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), citing concerns over possible censorship, the artist has found a new home for the next stop of her touring exhibition. American Sublime, which was on view at the...
Left to right: Tempestt Hazel, American Meredith, Jessica Lynne, Nicole Martinez, Paul Chaat Smith, Eva Recinos, Brandy McDonnell, and J Worham (photo by Kevin J. Miyazak, courtesy Rabkin Foundation) The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation named eight arts writers as...
A view of the 508-534 West 26th Street building complex in West Chelsea, Manhattan (photo Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) An esteemed nonprofit wants to turn a West Chelsea arts building on the market into an artist residency program while keeping longtime tenants in their...
A man was sentenced to six months in prison for trafficking nearly 600 Egyptian antiquities through John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), including a relief with a Ptolemaic-era cartouche, a complete gold funerary amulet set, and wooden sculptures dating back...
Months after 21-year-old Norwegian tourist Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry into the United States after border officials discovered a JD Vance meme on his phone, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) claimed they have “no...
Giuseppe Ghislandi, “Portrait of a Lady” (image courtesy the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) Authorities in Argentina have reportedly placed the daughter of a former Nazi official and her spouse under house arrest after a painting seized by...