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“Love is the Message, The Message is Death” by Arthur Jafa will be livestreamed for 48 hours straight this weekend
In 2016, off the heels of Donald Trump winning the US presidential election, artist Arthur Jafa debuted Love is the Message, The Message is Death, a video installation that compiles […]
Art World Roundup: a long-lost statue found in a river, resources for supporting Black-led galleries, the Van Gogh Foundation buys saucy letter, and more
This week’s Art World Roundup offers resources for supporting Black-owned and operated galleries in the US. We also look at how the Smithsonian and other museums are documenting history now, […]
Major US museums slow to respond to the murder of George Floyd highlight systematic injustice in the art world
Museums across the US faced backlash from their communities when in the face of police brutality that resulted in the murder of George Floyd, they stayed silent or were slow […]
Artist Relief offers $10 million in grants to US artists during the time of COVID-19
Navigating COVID-19 is stressful, no matter how you cut it. A main worry for many is how to stay afloat, financially, during such an uncertain time, and for artists, the […]
Art World Roundup: more COVID-19 news, an update on the boy thrown from the Tate, and #MuseumBouquet
In this week’s Art World Roundup, we cover more side effects of COVID-19, some more uplifting than others. We also have an update on the health of the boy who […]
Caroline Baumann, former director of Cooper Hewitt, calls report behind resignation a ‘sham’
For the first time since her abrupt resignation as the director of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum on February 7th, Caroline Baumann has now spoken out. In a statement […]
The Obama portraits, by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, to tour five US cities
Getting to meet the president of the United States is an honour that many people won’t see in their lifetime. Usually, the closest you get is visiting Washington DC, the […]
Conservators give the lamb in the Ghent Altarpiece a facelift, now, everyone is freaking out
When restorationists took to cleaning and conserving the Ghent Altarpiece, no one could have expected the reaction the internet was going to have. Without a doubt, the project, which has […]
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang signs Donald Glover as campaign creative consultant
Amidst the whirlwind of US politics, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has announced that Donald Glover, the actor and rapper who also goes by Childish Gambino, is now the creative […]
You’ve heard of the Monuments Men, but now, US military are looking to safeguard artworks with new initiative
Between 1943 and 1951, a special group of militaries called the Monuments Men reclaimed four million of the estimated five million paintings, artworks, books, manuscripts, and various other valuable that […]
