The Head of South Africa’s New Contemporary Art Museum Resigns Amid Investigation Into ‘Professional Conduct’
When the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art opened in Cape Town last September, it was hailed as “Africa’s answer to…
Short-term property-rental: How Airbnb lobbies Brussels
The short-term property-rental platforms have seen the potential for influence over those EU bodies which are supposed to regulate them,…
The Met 3-D Scanned Three Suits of Armor for an Icelandic Artist’s Public Art Show at the Cloisters
Visitors to New York’s Cloisters just might meet their knight in shining armor this summer. A new public art installation from…
Slowing Global Warming Could Save a Majority of Earthâs Species
WIKIMEDIA, HARALD ZIMMERIf global warming is kept in check, with only a 1.5 °C increase in temperatures by the end…
MoMA Is Suing MoMaCha Teashop Over Its Name—and the Cafe Thinks It’s ‘Absurd’
MoMaCha, a new tea shop and art gallery on New York’s Lower East Side, is battling back against the Museum…
FDA Approves Drug to Ease Symptoms of Opioid Withdrawal
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first non-opioid drug for treatment of the symptoms of opioid…
Chief Academic Officer Accused in Ongoing Research Scandal at UCL
WIKIMEDIA, DILIFF Prominent geneticist David Latchman, the chief academic and administrative officer of Birkbeck, University of London, has been accused…
‘He Copies Me Much More Than I Copy Him’: Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham on 35 Years of Creative Cohabitation
Husband-and-wife artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham first met in 1977. When they married six years later, they formed the…
Lizardsâ Green Blood Evolved Four Times
Prasinohaema prehensicauda, a green-blooded skinkCHRISTOPHER AUSTINSeveral species of New Guinea skinks, a type of lizard, are just as colorful inside…
Climate Change Will Force Hundreds of Marine Species to Move
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Sweden Cancels Agreement With Elsevier Over Open Access
WIKIMEDIA, MARCUS HANSSONA collection of Swedish universities and research institutions will not renew its current contract with Elsevier that expires…
Once Overlooked, Impressionist Painter Berthe Morisot Is About to Be Everywhere—Here’s Why
The French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot has long been overshadowed in art history by male contemporaries such as Claude Monet, Edgar…
Huge Gender Disparity in Cancer Research Funding in U.K.
ISTOCK, TSVIBRAVBetween 2000 and 2013, women received just 31 percent of the number of cancer research grants awarded in the…
A Guantánamo Prisoner Will Not Be Allowed to Show His Art, Military Judges Rule
Ammar al Baluchi, a prisoner held at Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay dentition facility, will not be allowed to show his artwork.…