Artists and Writers Condemn Cancellation of Award Ceremony for Palestinian...
Visual artists, writers, and publishers have released statements of solidarity with Palestinian author Adania Shibli, who was until this week set to receive an award at the Frankfurt Book Fair. On...
View ArticleKara Walker, Nan Goldin, Tilda Swinton Among 2,000 Cultural Leaders to Demand...
Nan Goldin, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Tilda Swinton, Barbara Kruger, and Kara Walker are among the more than 2,000 visual artists, writers, and actors demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in an open...
View ArticleHistoric Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza Damaged in Deadly Air Strike
The historic Church of St. Porphyrius in Gaza, one of the world’s oldest churches, was damaged Thursday night in an air strike that killed at least 16 Palestinians sheltered inside. The blast was...
View ArticleIsraeli Art Community Responds to 2,000 Cultural Leaders Demanding Ceasefire...
Amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East, an open letter demanding an immediate ceasefire circulated online earlier this week, receiving signatures from more than 2,000 visual artists, writers, and...
View ArticleGerman Museum Shutters Curator’s Contribution Over Pro-Palestine Instagram...
The Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, has closed a portion of a planned group show in response to a curator’s engagement with pro-Palestine content on social media, igniting accusations of...
View ArticleMalta Biennale Names 72 Artists for Inaugural ‘Insulaphilia’ Edition
Organizers of a new art biennale set to take place in the southern Mediterranean Island of Malta have named 72 artists from an estimated 30 countries that will participate in its inaugural edition,...
View ArticleMore Than 1,000 Artists Boycott Bristol’s Arnolfini Center Amid Palestine...
More than 1,000 artists across the cultural field—including Ben Rivers, Brian Eno, Adham Faramawy, and Tai Shani—have signed a new open letter that accuses Bristol’s Arnolfini International Centre for...
View ArticleUTA Accused of Forbidding CalArts Graduates from Addressing Palestine
Seven recent MFA graduates at the California Institute of Arts have dropped out of an exhibition at Los Angeles’s UTA Artist Space, accusing the venue of having kept them from addressing Gaza and...
View ArticleActivists Stage Pro-Palestine Demonstration at Pace Gallery Opening for...
An opening at Pace Gallery for the Israeli artist Michal Rovner on March 7 was disrupted by protestors calling for an end to the killing of Palestinians in Gaza by the IDF. Around 30 protestors...
View ArticleProtestor Spray Paints, Slashes Cambridge Portrait of Lord Balfour, Who...
A painting of Lord Balfour, whose eponymous doctrine is considered the catalyst for the 1948 establishment of Israel and the subsequent Nakba, the Palestinian term referring to the displacement of...
View ArticleArtists Pull Works from Barbican Show to Protest ‘Censorship’ of Writer’s...
A group of artists have joined two collectors in their protest of the Barbican Centre in London, which canceled a talk centered on Palestine and Israel by Indian writer Pankaj Mishra. The...
View ArticlePolice Will Investigate Pro-Palestine Activists’ Defacement of Arthur Balfour...
Police are investigating an incident of vandalism at Cambridge University in which pro-Palestine demonstrators defaced a portrait of the late British politician Arthur Balfour, who in his lifetime...
View ArticleActivists Protest at London Science Museum Over New Sponsor Adani
More than 150 people protested at London’s Science Museum recently in response to a new gallery sponsored by Adani, an Indian company with ties to coal mining and weapon production. The gallery is...
View ArticleDutch Royal Academy of Art Severs Ties with Israeli Art School Following...
The Dutch Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands, has agreed to cut ties with Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design following a months-long campaign by the school’s student union. The...
View ArticleIn a Polarized Art World, This New Index Is Mapping Incidents of Censorship...
As more and more artists claim they have been censored after speaking out on Palestine and Israel, a new online tool—called the Art Censorship Index, and released earlier this week—aims to track and...
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Pro-Gaza Protestors Stage Action at Brooklyn Museum, Calling for Divestment...
As afternoon dimmed into evening Friday, the Brooklyn Museum became the stage of one the most fervent Gaza solidarity actions yet to descend on a New York City art institution. Starting at 4:30 p.m....
View ArticleBrooklyn Museum Director’s Home Vandalized with Anti-Zionist Graffiti
The home of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak was vandalized overnight in an apparent protest of her institution’s ties to Israel. Red paint was splashed across the front door and windows of...
View ArticleSt. Louis Art Center Shutters Pro-Palestine Exhibition After Accusations of...
A St. Louis art center is facing criticism for closing an exhibition after deeming several pro-Palestinian works on display were antisemitic. The works were by artists Dani Collette and Allora...
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Palestinian Painter Samia Halaby’s Retrospective Triumphs in Michigan After...
Some 60 years ago, during her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University (MSU), Samia Halaby’s interest in abstract painting began to take shape. Now, at 87, the influential Palestinian...
View ArticleIsrael Approves Bill to Expand Presence of Antiquities Authority in West Bank
Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs approved a bill on Sunday that aims to expand the powers of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in Palestine’s occupied West Bank, according...
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