Politics Kyrgyzstan Censored a Feminist Art Show at the National Museum of Fine Arts. Now Its Director Has Resigned The ministry of culture decried the nudity in the "scandalous" show. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 4, 2019
Art World As a ‘Statement of Solidarity,’ the 2019 Turner Prize Is Awarded to All Four Nominees at Once At their request, the prize will be split evenly by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, and Tai Shani. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 3, 2019
Politics The Texas Senate Just Formed a Committee to Decide If It Should Keep a Painting of Confederate President Jefferson Davis In Its Chambers Skeptics think the gesture is meant to diffuse recent controversies rather than create change. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 3, 2019
Art World Miami’s New Graffiti Museum Is Making the Case That the Outlaw Art Form Deserves a Respectable Home The for-profit museum commissioned 11 murals for its facade. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 2, 2019
Politics Budapest’s Green Mayor Halts Construction on the City’s $277 Million National Gallery Due to Environmental Concerns The proposed museum stands at the center of a major cultural development plan in Budapest’s City Park. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 2, 2019
Art World Turning 80, Photographer William Eggleston Is Launching a Foundation to Preserve His Life’s Work and Promote Scholarly Research The foundation will oversee Eggleston’s archives in Memphis. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 22, 2019
People A French Museum Says It Has Found Michel de Montaigne, Famed Humanist Philosopher of the Renaissance, in Its Basement It's probably his body, the museum's director says. "We need to check." By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 21, 2019
Exhibitions William Arnett Helped Bring Self-Taught Artists Into Elite Museums. Now, He’s Presenting His Own Collection at a Gallery for the First Time Artworks by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Mary T. Smith are included the show at Marlborough in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 21, 2019
Politics Beijing Censors Have Forbidden the Ullens Center From Staging a Survey on the Chinese-American Artist Hung Liu The show was scheduled to open in December. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 20, 2019
Art and Law Police Raids Across Europe Have Led to the Discovery of 10,000 Stolen Artworks and the Arrests of 23 Suspects Agents from five countries took part in the complex operation. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 19, 2019
People Peer Inside the Otherworldly Studio of Andra Ursuţa, a Sculptor Who Transforms Horror-Movie Props Into Eerie Totems "The throwaway, cheap props that the culture uses to express its fear—I love to use those kinds of things," Ursuta says. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 18, 2019
Art World George Soros’s Foundation Is Launching a $15 Million Initiative to Repatriate Cultural Objects to African Nations The project will support African organizations campaigning for the return of artifacts taken during the colonial era. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 15, 2019
Art World Think You’d Make a Great Museum Director? A New Sims-Like Video Game Lets You to Build, Staff, and Run Your Very Own Museum The game, which will be released next year, tasks players with building and curating their own institutions. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 15, 2019
Exhibitions Were the Mexican Muralists America’s Greatest Street Artists? A New Whitney Show Will Examine Their Too-Long-Ignored Legacy The exhibition is a major statement from a museum devoted to the history of American art. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 14, 2019
Politics China’s President Pledges His Support to Greece in Its Effort to Recover the Parthenon Marbles From the British Museum Greece has campaigned for three decades for the British Museum to repatriate the marbles. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 13, 2019
