Politics Pussy Riot Members Get 15 Days in Jail and a 3-Year Ban From Sporting Events After Protesting at the World Cup Final The group has also released a new music video about Russian police. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 17, 2018
Politics An Upstart UK News Organization Is Running an Anti-Trump Art Contest. The Winning Work Goes to a DC Museum As the US president arrives in the UK, the Rapid Response Unit is looking for creative contributions to the debate. By Naomi Rea, Jul 12, 2018
Politics Politicians Blasted Josephine Meckseper’s Stained American Flag as ‘Beyond Disrespectful.’ So a Kansas University Took It Down The altered flag was part of Creative Time's nationwide "Pledges of Allegiance" project. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 12, 2018
Politics The UK Gets a New Culture Secretary in Theresa May’s Emergency Cabinet Reshuffle Jeremy Wright is the third culture secretary to be appointed under the current prime minister. By Naomi Rea, Jul 10, 2018
Politics Protesters Get the Green Light to Fly a Giant ‘Trump Baby’ Blimp Over UK Parliament During the President’s Visit London Mayor Sadiq Khan approved the balloon after protesters gathered 10,000 signatures of support. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 6, 2018
Politics ‘We Make Kids Disappear’? Wielding Paint Rollers, an Art Collective Scaled a Bay Area Billboard to Protest Trump’s Immigration Policy A billboard bashing Trump's child separation policy for asylum-seeking immigrants greeted commuters in the San Francisco area yesterday morning. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 22, 2018
Politics The MTA Removed These Museum of Sex Ads After the Bus Drivers Complained of Harassment The Museum of Sex calls it a "First Amendment case." By Sarah Cascone, Jun 19, 2018
Politics 3 Stedelijk Board Members Resign After a Study Clears Former Museum Director Beatrix Ruf of Wrongdoing The German curator expresses her gratitude to the investigation's researchers, while board members step down "to end the turmoil" in Amsterdam. By Kate Brown, Jun 13, 2018
Politics Embattled Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf Was Wrongly Accused, Says a New Report But she also could have been more forthcoming about her outside income. By Kate Brown, Jun 12, 2018
Politics The Big Move to Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Has Begun, as Pressure for Restitution of Colonial-Era Objects Grows The German Lost Art Foundation's expertise in researching Nazi-era loot will expand as demands for colonial-era restitution grows at home and abroad. By Kate Brown, Jun 11, 2018
Politics Nearly 50 Confederate Monuments Have Been Removed Since 2015, Says a New Report But another 772 remain, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 5, 2018
Politics Coming to a Billboard Near You: An Artist-Led Political Group Is Organizing the Largest Public Art Collaboration in US History For Freedoms is teaming the Kickstarter to make a splash in all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 4, 2018
Politics Okwui Enwezor Steps Down as Director of Munich’s Haus Der Kunst, Citing Health Reasons The star curator had an ambitious but turbulent tenure. By Henri Neuendorf, Jun 4, 2018
Politics The UK’s Labour Party Leader Pledges to Return the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece Jeremy Corbyn has said he will engage in “constructive talks” regarding the embattled sculptures if he is elected Prime Minister of the UK. By Naomi Rea, Jun 4, 2018
Politics Jon Stewart, Michael Arad, and Others Talk About the Meaning of the Newly Unveiled Design for the 9/11 Memorial Glade The addition of six stone slabs to the existing 9/11 memorial honors first responders and recovery workers. By Sarah Cascone, May 31, 2018