Politics The Toledo Museum of Art Walks Back Its ‘Nonpartisan’ Statement on the George Floyd Killing After Protests Erupt at Its Door The museum "does not have a political stance,” the director originally wrote. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2020
Politics 7 Photographers on What It’s Like to Be on the Ground Capturing the Black Lives Matter Protests Across the US, From Boston to Oakland Photographers have played a crucial role in activist movements throughout history. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2020
Politics Ousted Whitney Trustee Warren Kanders Is Selling Off the Parts of His Company That Manufacture Tear Gas and Other ‘Crowd-Control Solutions’ Kanders and his company Safariland have come under renewed scrutiny. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 9, 2020
Art and Law A Court Has Temporarily Blocked Virginia’s Governor From Removing Its Notorious Robert E. Lee Monument The governor wants to remove the statue “as soon as possible.” But a descendant of an old Virginia family has other ideas. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 9, 2020
Politics Cities Across the US Are Painting Massive Black Lives Matter Slogans on Their Streets, Following in the Footsteps of Washington, DC Block-spanning text paintings appeared in Oakland, Sacramento, and Raleigh over the weekend. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 8, 2020
People ‘History Doesn’t Move in a Straight Line’: Photographer An-My Lê on How Pictures Can Help Us Keep Up With a Rapidly Changing World The photographer's first career survey is on view now at the Carnegie Museum of Art. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 8, 2020
Politics The Mayor of Washington, DC, Just Had ‘Black Lives Matter’ Painted in 35-Foot-Wide Letters on the Protest Route Leading to the White House The mural abuts Lafayette Park, where Trump ordered the National Guard to forcefully remove protesters earlier this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 5, 2020
Politics The Confederate Memorials in the Center of Richmond, Virginia, Including a 130-Year-Old Statue of Robert E. Lee, Are Coming Down "That statue has been there for a long time,” said Virginia’s governor. “It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. So we're taking it down.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 4, 2020
Politics Artist Titus Kaphar Painted a Black Mother With the Silhouette of a Child for the Cover of TIME Magazine’s Protest Issue The harrowing image is the second by Kaphar to be used as a cover for the magazine. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 4, 2020
Politics The Controversial Philadelphia Statue of Frank Rizzo, a Former Police Chief and Segregationist Mayor, Has Been Taken Down by the City "This is the beginning of the healing process in our city,” said the city's current mayor. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 3, 2020
Art and Law An Ex-Staffer Is Suing the Akron Art Museum and Its Former Director, Claiming She Was Fired for Complaining About the Work Environment The museum's director resigned in May following allegations from numerous staffers. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 1, 2020
Politics Artist Carrie Mae Weems Is Planning an Ambitious Campaign to Alert the World About How the Coronavirus Has Hurt Communities of Color Weems will launch the project in Syracuse, New York. By Taylor Dafoe, May 28, 2020
Art and Law Steve Bannon’s School for Far-Right Populists Can’t Be Evicted From an 800-Year-Old Italian Monastery, a Court Rules The Italian Ministry of Culture plans to appeal the verdict, and is pushing for Bannon’s organization to be slapped with criminal charges. By Taylor Dafoe, May 27, 2020
People Richard Anuszkiewicz, an Op-Art Pioneer Who Pushed Geometric Abstraction to Illusory Ends, Has Died at 89 The American artist was one of Op-Art’s most dedicated practitioners. By Taylor Dafoe, May 26, 2020
Art World The Nonprofit Eyebeam Is Handing Out Tens of Thousands of Dollars to Artists to Develop New Tools to Fight Digital Inequality In the first phase of the project, the organization will give $5,000 grants to 27 artists. By Taylor Dafoe, May 26, 2020
