A German Artists’ Group Is Demanding A Prize-Winning Artist Apologize
The Iranian-German photographer called Israel a “Zionist apartheid state” and said “Free Palestine” in her minute-long award acceptance speech. - Hyperallergic
When A Museum Is Closed For Years, How Does It Keep Up Engagement And...
Digital programming, online classes, offline pop-ups, and construction tours keep museums that are undergoing renovations in the eyes, and lives, of the easily distracted...
Publishers Using Print On Demand Is Flooding The Book Market With Off-Brand, Low-Quality Paperbacks
“Convenience has led us to a place where publishers are willing to charge more for an inferior product.” This is, truly, not good at...
As Somebody, Somewhere Ends, It’s Leaving A Gap In TV
The show, dubbed “nicecore” had a lot of potential to be snarky - and sometimes its main character certainly is. But “the show is...
Why Have A Poster On Your Dorm Wall When You Can Just Hang A...
At the University of Chicago, “students have about one week to peruse the collection and identify their favorites among the color lithographs by luminaries...
We Finally Have An Opening Date For LACMA
That’s April, 2026. “LACMA has likened Zumthor‘s design to a kind of living organism. Indeed, the raw concrete is already showing signs of...
Maybe Having Billionaire Newspaper Owners Isn’t Great For Democracy?
The LA Times and Washington Post didn’t endorse a candidate, and it seems like their executives are "hoping to hedge their bets in advance...
The Indie Filmmaker Trying To Change Our Narrative On The American Dream
Sean Baker’s Anora and his other films are “raw, intimate portraits of Americans who are often misrepresented or overlooked in pop culture, particularly sex...
Will The Repaired, Reopened Notre Dame Charge An Entrance Fee?
The reopening is barreling toward its reopening date, and “while visitors to the most notable cathedrals in neighbouring countries, including Spain, Italy and Britain,...
An All-AI Bot Radio Station Hits The Airwaves
"Weeks after letting its journalists go, OFF Radio Krakow relaunched this week, with what it said was 'the first experiment in Poland in which...
Why Is The Art World Focusing On Photography Just As AI Images Are Becoming...
Many of the largest and most powerful art dealers are dedicating significant attention and real estate to photography. It is part of a broader...
Call Of Duty? The Long And Symbiotic Relationship Between The Video Game Industry And...
"In fact, when the modern gaming industry was coming online, the Department of Defense already had skin in the game. … And Call of...
Is Cultural Tourism Growing Up?
While in the past, we may have been cynical that cultural tourism was just a watered-down ‘sell-y’ option parcelled up by cruises or tour...
Study: How Arts Agencies Helped Local Arts Communities Through The Pandemic
External and Internal advocacy work solidified support for the sector and gave funding agencies “seats at the table” within local government funding deliberations that...
The Case Against The Idea That Computers Will Ever Be Able To Think
It is one thing to appreciate the ways we make and remake ourselves through the cultural transformation of our worlds via tool use and...
There’s A Whole New Wave Of Contemporary Dance In Museums And Galleries
It's nothing new for visual art institutions to host new and experimental dance works, but there's been a real uptick in recent years. Why?...
Warsaw’s New Museum Of Modern Art Tries To Transcend Poland’s Communist Legacy
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw sits like a bright white box on a major city street. Inside, a monumental staircase with geometric...
Critic Gary Indiana, 74
Although he was widely known as an art critic for the Village Voice during the mid-1980s, and even though he has continued to write literature and...
Grandparents Organizing To Fight Book Bans
“I want to make sure my grandchildren grow up in a world where they can read and form opinions based on knowledge, not on...
Artists And Performers In Republic Of Georgia Wonder If They’ll Have To Leave The...
"Two new laws — cracking down on organizations that receive international funding and what the government calls L.G.B.T. propaganda — and the violent response...
Stepping Inside A Painting (And Into History)
The Night Revels blasts through that flimsy structure of history to show us a work of detailed authentication that is nearly 1200 years old. This...
Is This The Reason Some Of The Books We Buy Now Are Of Terrible...
Many consumers likely don’t know the difference between a print-on-demand book and a traditionally produced paperback, at least not at first. But once you...
How America’s Poet Laureate Collaborated With NASA On Its Mission To Jupiter
It isn’t the first poem to slip the surly bonds of Earth and it won’t be the last. But its origin story is a reminder of...
Ten Years After An Aborted Shutdown, San Diego Opera Announces Ambitious Five-Year Expansion Plan
"How ambitious? It will require raising an additional $10.5 million over the next five years to fund the expansion of live performances; the re-establishment...
That Banana-Duct-Taped-To-The-Wall Artwork Seems To Have Been A Very Good Investment
One of three "editions" of the piece, titled Comedian, by prankster conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan (he of the gold toilet titled America) sold five...
