Three Workers at New York’s Noguchi Museum Fired after Wearing Keffiyehs on...
Three employees at the Noguchi Museum in New York were fired for violating an internal policy that banned keffiyehs, a garment symbolic of Palestinian culture. A fourth employee, the director of...
View ArticleOwners of Only Realized Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper Spark Outcry for...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines WRIGHT TO SELL? The owners of Frank Lloyd Wright’s only realized skyscraper in...
View ArticleActivists Cover Picasso’s ‘Motherhood’ Painting with Image of Gazan Mother...
This morning, two activists pasted a photograph of a Palestinian mother and child over the protective glass of Pablo Picasso’s 1901 painting Motherhood (La Maternité) at the National Gallery in...
View ArticleBrooklyn Arts Studio Apologizes for Removing Work of Palestinian-American...
UrbanGlass, an arts space and glass-making studio in Brooklyn, has issued a public apology for excluding the work of a Palestinian-American employee from a staff exhibition in March. Sixteen members...
View ArticleThree Charged With Hate Crimes and Conspiracy for Vandalizing Brooklyn Museum...
Three people have been charged with 25 counts, including making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, graffiti, and conspiracy, in connection with the vandalism of the home of Brooklyn Museum director...
View ArticlePro-Palestine Activists Call for MoMA to Sever Ties with Honorary Chairman...
Last night, pro-Palestine protestors gathered outside the Museum of Modern Art in New York as it hosted the annual assembly for the World Jewish Congress, an influential organization led by honorary...
View ArticleCongress Passes Bill That Gives Trump the Power to Designate Art Nonprofits...
On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or H.R. 9495, a bill that grants the Secretary of Treasury the power to...
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The Ramallah Art Fair Returns with a Theme of Resilience
Zawyeh Art Gallery, the organizer and sole venue of the Ramallah Art Fair, wants it known that the name of the event is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, the works in its newly opened fourth edition are for...
View ArticleThe Year in Conflict: The World’s Heritage Sites Faced Destruction in the...
World heritage is rarely exempt from war, as 2024 proved in the cases of Israel and its enemies in the Middle East, and Ukraine and Russia. Amid each clash, monuments, religious landmarks, and ancient...
View ArticleThe Year in Censorship: An Irreparable Art World Schism Over Israel’s War in...
Before 2024 even began, and arguably even before October 7, 2023, the art world was split on Israel and Palestine. But this year, the schism widened even further, until there was no room for nuanced...
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