California Voters Say Yes to Art Education
Hyperallergic - The state approved Proposition 28, which will provide around $1 billion annually to fund art and music education in schools. - read more ...
Klimt Gets Splashed With “Oil” in Latest Climate Protest
Hyperallergic - This morning, November 15, the climate emergency activism group Letzte Generation’s Austrian branch took to the Leopold Museum in Vienna for another demonstration in the recent wave of substance...
Energy crisis’ long night told by the photos of Berlin in the dark
DOMUS - It may not be The City That Never Sleeps or the Ville Lumière, but Berlin is still the largest, best-known, best-loved and most imitated city in Germany (itself the largest economy in Europe), and seei...
After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment
NY TIMES - An art taboo is falling, from the Whitney Museum to the Armory Show to blue-chip galleries. Yet artists acknowledge self-censorship on the topic. - read more ...
Scammers Hack Beeple’s Twitter and Steal Over $400K in Crypto
Hyperallergic - Phishers reportedly hacked into the Twitter account of digital artist Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the artist name Beeple and who skyrocketed to fame after selling a non-fungible token (NFT) for...
Art Dealer Sentenced to 7 Years in $86 Million Fraud Scheme
NY Times - Inigo Philbrick pleaded guilty to fraud in deals involving works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher Wool and others. Prosecutors said he took advantage of the art market’s opacity. - read more ...
As Big Shows of Russian Art End in Europe, Some Wonder What’s Next
NY Times - Museums in London and Paris are grappling with questions about how to get art back to Russia, and whether the works will ever be seen again in Europe. - read more
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Why some German church windows depict Hitler
DW - Weil der Stadt is a town of about 20,000 people in southwestern Germany, west of Stuttgart. At the Catholic church of St. Peter and Paul, pastor Anton Gruber has been welcoming his congregation as well as ...
Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removal Begins at Museum of Natural History
NY TIMES - It was past midnight when a crane descended on the imposing bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, lifting his upper body from the pedestal where it has presided at the American Museum of Natural Hist...
Ten half-buried houses hidden from the outside world
de zeen - Located on an avocado field sloping down to a forest in a rural lake town about two hours from Mexico City, this sunken home is accessed via an exterior staircase. -read more ...