Law & Politics Activists Banned From Protesting in London After Throwing Soup on a Van Gogh Three members from Just Stop Oil received the ban just as the environmental group launched a new series of peaceful demonstrations targeting public sculptures around the U.K. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 29, 2024
Museums & Institutions These New York Museums Have Opened Their Doors for Early Voting Your polling place could be a museum! By Sarah Cascone, Oct 28, 2024
Market Frieze Art Fairs May Be Put Up For Sale—And More Art Industry News Plus, Maurizio Cattelan's infamous banana heads to auction with a $1-million price tag. By Annie Armstrong, Oct 28, 2024
Art & Tech What Art Gets Your Heart Racing? The Art Gallery of Ontario Is Putting It to the Test The experiment profiles users to reveal their "art persona". By Verity Babbs, Oct 26, 2024
People Smithsonian Awards Art Medal to Trailblazing Artists Senga Nengudi and Richard Tuttle Ann Philbin, the outgoing director of L.A.'s Hammer Museum, will be recognized for her contributions to art history. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 24, 2024
Art & Exhibitions Tim Burton, Known Purveyor of Gothic Horror, Thinks A.I. Is ‘Scary’ A sprawling exhibition chronicles the famed director's 50-year creative journey at London's Design Museum has led to record-breaking ticket sales ahead of Halloween. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 24, 2024
Museums & Institutions Are You Under 25? Admission to the Whitney Museum Will Soon Be Free for You Artist Julie Mehretu and another board member, Susan Hess, will foot the bill for the younglings. By Brian Boucher, Oct 23, 2024
On View Frances McDormand Helps Bring Shaker Culture Back Into the Spotlight Two new museum shows take the viewer deep inside the fascinating Shaker community in the U.S. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 22, 2024
Museums & Institutions Guggenheim Expansion Plan Sparks Fury: Will a New Museum Destroy a Protected Wildlife Preserve? The site was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO four decades ago. By Brian Boucher, Oct 22, 2024
Art & Exhibitions Hew Locke on the Little Objects That Reveal a Big, Messy History at the British Museum In "what have we here?," the Guyanese-British artist turns his probing eye toward the museum's own collection and the story it tells. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 21, 2024
Pop Culture Orangerie’s Monet Sets the Stage for Caroline Polachek’s Haunting Radiohead Cover It was the celebrated musician’s first time seeing the paintings IRL. By Brian Boucher, Oct 21, 2024
Studio Visit How Edmund de Waal Is ‘Playing With Fire’ in a New Museum Show The artist is both a creator and a curator in a new show in Norway that pays homage to ceramicist master Axel Salto. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 18, 2024
Museums & Institutions In a Rare Move, Boston’s Gardner Museum Snaps Up a Neighboring Apartment Building The museum paid $22.8 million to acquire the property. By Brian Boucher, Oct 18, 2024
Museums & Institutions London’s National Gallery Restricts Liquids and Big Bags Amid Climate Protests A Van Gogh painting at the museum was most recently targeted by activists. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 17, 2024
Museums & Institutions Darren Walker Named First Black President of the National Gallery of Art Currently president of the Ford Foundation, he has also served on the National Gallery's board since 2019. By Brian Boucher, Oct 17, 2024
