The New Documentary ‘Copyright Infringement’ Unpacks the Art and Action Behind Artist Cj Hendry’s Beloved Scavenger Hunt
What would you do to get your hands on a free, limited-edition Cj Hendry t-shirt? If you are one of…
After 15 Years on Governors Island, Artist-Run Fair Portal Was Rejected From the Site This Year, as Demand for Exhibition Space Grows
Portal: Governors Island, formerly known as the Governors Island Art Fair, has been booted from its namesake location off the…
After Five Years of Renovations—and Months of Labor Negotiations With Staff—New York’s Hispanic Society Finally Reopens
For over five-and-a-half years, the galleries at New York’s Hispanic Society Museum and Library have been closed for renovations, its…
You Can Get Your Tarot Cards Read by an Art Witch Channeling the Ghost of Hilma af Klint at the Armory Show
Visitors to New York’s Armory Show, which opened to VIPs today, can catch a glimpse of what the future may…
Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again
On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest…
The American Artist Chuck Close, Who Created Larger-Than-Life Photorealist Portraits, Has Died at 81
Chuck Close, whose distinctive, monumental portraits and self-portraits toyed with viewers’ perception, has died of complications from a long illness…
As Afghanistan falls, what does it mean for the Middle East?
In the 19th century, the phrase “The Great Game” was used to describe competition for power and influence in Afghanistan,…
As the Taliban returns, 20 years of progress for women looks set to disappear overnight
As the Taliban takes control of the country, Afghanistan has again become an extremely dangerous place to be a woman.…
The Art World Remembers the Late Painter Hung Liu, Who Valorized Everyday Immigrants in Monumental Portraits
On the eve of her first museum retrospective, Oakland-based painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to find success…
#FreeBritney has many of us wondering: do we have conservatorships in Australia?
News Britney Spears’ father has agreed to step down from her conservatorship might have you wondering how equivalent laws work…
Cruel, costly and ineffective: Australia’s offshore processing asylum seeker policy turns 9
This week marks nine years since Australia re-introduced a policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers arriving by boat. Nine…
Brad Hazzard is wrong about multicultural western Sydney: new research shows refugees do trust institutions
With COVID numbers surging in Sydney’s multicultural western suburbs, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard speculated that migrant and refugee communities…
The Beetaloo drilling program brings potential health and social issues for Aboriginal communities in remote NT
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been repeatedly harmed by policies and decisions that drive systematic dispossession, disempowerment, overincarceration…
Increased incarceration of First Nations women is interwoven with the experience of violence and trauma
There is a national incarceration crisis impacting First Nations women in Australia. First Nations women are the fastest-growing prison population,…