On May 6, in a thousand-year-old ceremony, the last coronation rite of the Western world will take place in London. Charles III will sit on the Stone of Destiny, on …
Arts
The strike at the Hispanic Society of New York enters its sixth week, with no “movement” in the negotiations
Workers at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood have been on strike since late March. Strike began after a year of fruitless negotiations between …
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts becomes the “nexus for the study of Islamic art”
Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the United States, while Texas has the fifth largest Muslim community of any state in the country. To reflect this culture, …
Actor (2019), a sculptural intervention by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan that consists of a banana taped to the gallery wall, has lost none of its a-peel. On April 27, …
New York, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Linz… Which city has the best digital art?
You are more likely to have heard of the Fotomuseum Winterthur than the one you visited. Located in the Swiss countryside outside Zurich, it is – like the Photographer’s Gallery …
Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy reach for the sky with Chicago airport sculpture
A sculpture the size of an airliner landed at Chicago’s main air travel hub, O’Hare International Airport, Courtesy of Contemporary Artists Hank WillisThomas and Coby Kennedy. Fresh off of high-profile …
On October 14, 2022, after 19 days of picketing in rain and sun, my colleagues at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) ended our historic strike. The union contract we …
A low-key storefront in Manhattan’s popular Nolita neighborhood now houses the Museum of broken windowsan ephemeral space whose main exhibition asks the following question: how else could New Yorkers spend …
Van Gogh Montmartre scene with sunflowers is coming to Sotheby’s and could fetch $30 million
Garden in front of Ferme Debray (July-August 1887) will be offered at Sotheby’s, New York on May 16, with an estimate of $20-30 million. It was painted a few minutes …
Florida educator ousted for showing students Michelangelo’s David visiting sculpture in Florence
In the final chapter of Tallahassee Classical School’s unlikely turn in the spotlight of world newsHope Carrasquilla, the former Florida Christian school principal who was ousted after parents complained about …