Art and Society

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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   ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

domus - The Institut Catholique of Paris wants to make Notre-Dame a religious space capable of welcoming visitors from outside the Christian culture, but the idea has not received universal praise. - read more ...

Durer - Thought to be a 20th-century reproduction, the drawing by German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer was bought at a house clearance sale. - read more ...

Hyperallergic - While peeling away layers of plaster as part of routine preparations for a building repair project, a team of restorers in England made “the discovery of a lifetime.”  - read more...