Art and Culture

Hyperallergic - World War II ended more than 70 years ago, but the horrors of the Holocaust (or Shoah, in Hebrew) have not receded from historical memory. Yet for some reason, there’s a disconnect when it comes...

The Art Newspaper - Tate Modern is to devote a major exhibition to a single “pivotal” year in Picasso’s prolific career. Perhaps surprisingly, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy (8 March-9 September 2018) will b...

NPR - Breaking news is everywhere, 24 hours a day. And now, it's made its way into an art gallery as well — in an exhibit called "Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media." In Los Angeles, a Getty Museum s...

Hyperallergic -ISIS militants have reputedly wrecked two additional sites in Palmyra, in acts of cultural oppression that began just weeks after the terror group regained control of the ancient city from Syrian...

Hyperallergic - Miami resident and confessed art thief Marcus Sanford Patmon was arrested on Wednesday after driving a stolen car some 1,000 miles to Arlington, Virginia, where “he was looking to be pardoned by...

Hyperallergic - For the past five months, those crossing London’s Trafalgar Square received a massive thumbs up courtesy of David Shrigley, whose sculpture “Really Good” sat atop the Fourth Plinth. The towering...

EI - The 56-year-old former agricultural trader, now unemployed, was looking at the transformation of the ruins of his house in Khan Younis in the south of the occupied Gaza Strip. It is a third incarnation in ...

BBC  - The photographs he would go on to take coincided with Warhol's emergence as a prominent artist and would capture the vibrant creativity of the New York art scene in the late 1960s.The young photographer ...

BBC - How many came to mock these ‘degenerate’ artworks, and how many came to admire them? It’s impossible to tell (in Hitler’s Germany, dissenters ended up in concentration camps) but, either way, ‘degenerate’...

Art in America- ONE NIGHT IN Rome, in the summer of 1632, an expat French painter named Valentin de Boulogne stumbled home after a night of drinking. The evening was warm despite the hour, and Valentin decided ...