Art and Society

hyperallergic - Since 1962, the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has received official commissioned portraits of the nation’s presidents. The museum works directly with White House staff to pu...

The New York Times - Arizona has allowed its museums to remain open despite a deadly outbreak, while in cities and states with far fewer cases, the doors have been closed. - read more ...

DW - A pink human-like shape lies on the floor; something that looks like a bear's claw juts from a rock-like sculpture; a kind of half-pipe and large marble blocks offer glimpses of their insides. - read more...

art daily - By the late 1990s, most of the Nazi art experts who helped loot European Jews were either dead or living quiet lives under the radar. Not so Bruno Lohse, who served as the art agent to Reichsmarscha...

CUENCA, Spain — He was once described by Vanity Fair as “a Gatsby for the Reagan era,” but, until recently, life has been quieter for the Cuban-American art collector Roberto Polo. Polo, a financier whose ro...

National  Geographic - For years, the head of a queen sat in storage in a building in Berlin. Her face is smooth, but her head is intricately engraved and topped with a crown befitting a lyoba—a matriarch figur...

artnet news - When the US government established the CIA in 1947, it included a division known as the Propaganda Assets Inventory, a branch of psychological warfare intended to boost pro-American messaging duri...

artsy - Yowshien Kuo’s paintings are filled with rattlesnakes, gallon hats, and other yeehaw imagery, but there are no white cowboys here. Instead, we see Asian men: shooting guns with their tongues out; wrangl...

Hyperallergic - Tom Gores owns a telecom company that “rakes in more than $700 million per year charging egregious rates for phone calls from prisons, jails, and immigrant detention centers.” - read more ...

NY Times -  Just weeks away from reopening to the public on Oct. 3, the Guggenheim Museum has announced an 11 percent reduction of its staff. On Wednesday, the museum laid off two dozen employees with another e...