Art and Society

Hyperallergic - Recent national headlines have focused on Indiana University’s refusal to remove a Thomas Hart Benton mural depicting members of the Ku Klux Klan before a burning cross. The decision became a to...

Hyperallergic - On Wednesday, Banksy organized an “apologetic” tea party for Palestinians outside his West Bank hotel to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour declaration, a statement of British government ...

Hyperallergic - Anonymous artist Hogre wasn’t expecting to be arrested while checking their email at an internet café in Rome. Neither were they anticipating being charged under an archaic Italian law that puni...

NY Times - Benjamin Genocchio, a prominent and influential figure in the art world, has been replaced as executive director of the Armory Show, a top international art fair, after five women who have worked wit...

CNN - Michael Xufu Huang is hard to miss. In March of this year, the Chinese art collector turned heads at a Guggenheim party by showing up in a white leather jumpsuit. A week later, he swept through the VIP op...

The Art Newspaper - Pablo Picasso was 85 when he gave the monumental untitled sculpture now famously known as The Chicago Picasso to the city in 1967. The work precipitated an aesthetic shift in civic and urban...

The Art Newspaper -The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and Garage Magazine founder Dasha Zhukova—one of the contemporary art scene’s biggest power couples—have split. In a statement released to the media o...

Artnet - A long-running argument between the founder of Zurich’s iconic Le Corbusier museum is heading to court. Heidi Weber, a close collaborator, confidant, and friend of the legendary architect is suing the ...

Hyperallergic - For a brief moment this weekend, the “Fearless Girl” statue on Wall Street became a pee post, her dignity denigrated by the addition of a tiny sculpted pug lifting its leg over her left foot.  -...

The Art Newspaper -  France's cultural sector has breathed a sigh of relief after centrist Emmanuel Macron became elected president of France on Sunday, making the 39-year-old the youngest president in French h...