Politics After Rebuking Statue Toppling, President Trump Signs an Executive Order to Create a National Garden of Monuments to ‘American Heroes’ The monuments must be “lifelike or realistic” and not “abstract or modernist.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 6, 2020
Politics New York City’s 2021 Budget Slashes Already Modest Funding for Public-School Arts Education by 70 Percent The 2021 budget also includes an 11 percent reduction to the Department of Cultural Affairs. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 1, 2020
Politics Donald Trump Signs an Executive Order Calling to Prosecute Anyone Who Damages Federal Monuments ‘to the Fullest Extent Possible’ The new executive order signed Friday reinforces the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 29, 2020
Politics The Trump Administration Has Deployed the National Guard to Protect Monuments in Washington, DC The president also promised a "very strong executive" order punishing monument vandals this week. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 25, 2020
Politics How a Mysterious Figure Known Only as ‘American Artist’ Is Exposing Hidden Histories of Social Control in Surveillance and Policing American Artist has been sounding the alarm about the police's lethal relationship with Silicon Valley for years. It's past time we listened. By Tim Schneider, Jun 24, 2020
Politics In a Morning Raid, Russian Police Arrested Pussy Riot Member Peter Verzilov for His Alleged Role in Last Summer’s Anti-Corruption Riots Russian authorities are cracking down on the protest group yet again. By Naomi Rea, Jun 22, 2020
Politics How Have Artists Shaped Previous Protest Movements? 7 Historians on How the Past Can Help Us Understand the Present We asked historians to weigh in on the role that artists have played in past instances of social, economic, and cultural unrest. By Artnet News, Jun 16, 2020
Politics Boris Johnson Says He Will Defend Winston Churchill’s Statue ‘With Every Breath in My Body’ as the Battle Over the UK’s Memorials Intensifies The British Prime Minister also called for more monuments celebrating Black Britons. By Naomi Rea, Jun 15, 2020
Politics Five Activists Were Arrested After Trying to Seize a 19th-Century Artifact From Paris’s Quai Branly Museum and Return It to Africa The activists, who filmed a video of their foiled heist, are out of jail but face charges for attempted theft. By Kate Brown, Jun 15, 2020
Politics The Troubling Stories Behind Five Monuments Around the World That Came Down in Recent Days—and Why Their Removal Was Long Overdue Monuments from Boston to Bristol have been targeted by protestors demanding a change. By Katie White, Jun 12, 2020
Politics London Boards Up Its Monuments as Tensions Run High Over the Fight to Topple Controversial Historical Statues Groups opposing Black Lives Matter have threatened to defend monuments from protesters, and a bust of a Black poet was attacked in Bristol. By Naomi Rea, Jun 12, 2020
Politics ‘It’s a Symbol in the Community That Can’t Be Ignored’: Why a Teacher Organized a George Floyd Tribute Wall in Harlem The Harlem community is filling the wall with artworks, flowers, and other mementos. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 12, 2020
Politics With Monuments Falling All Over Europe, We Asked Historians and Artists to Weigh in on How They Should Be Replaced Experts say there are no easy answers. By Naomi Rea, Jun 11, 2020
Politics Protesters Beheaded a Christopher Columbus Statue in Boston. Another, in Richmond, Was Tossed Into a Lake A momentous day of activism was capped by Native American protesters toppling a Columbus statue in Minnesota. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 10, 2020
Politics Microsoft’s Ad Agency Asked Artist Shantell Martin to Paint a Black Lives Matter Mural While It Was ‘Still Relevant.’ Her Response Shook the Internet Artist Shantell Martin says the incident is an example of "performative allyship." By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 10, 2020
