Aug 16, 2023 | Art, Donations, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is donating $2 million to the Smithsonian American At Museum, to endow a new fellowship there. Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract impressionist painter who rose to prominence in the 1950s and painted into the early 2000s. From...
Jul 26, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending, Organizations
A Chicago museum is building a new program to teach art, promoting artists of color at the same time. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is working with Romi Crawford to built an intensive semester-long art course, an alternative to traditional models of art...
Jul 10, 2023 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Organizations
The Real Unreal will open soon in Grapevine Mills, Texas, the latest of Meow Wolf’s surrealist immersion experiments. The Real Unreal is the home of a fictional, multigenerational family, and the various rooms and spaces of it take visitors through the stories...
May 8, 2023 | Art, Film, News & Trending, Organizations
A Hollywood strike is underway, the first in 15 years, as the Writers Guild of America leave their desks for the picket lines. According to the 11,500 members of the WGA, the streaming boom has hit their industry hard. Pay has not kept up with profits, and networks...
Mar 13, 2023 | Art, Culture, News & Trending, Organizations
Ontario police have arrested eight people in connection with the forgery of thousands of artworks by a popular indigenous artist. Norval Morrisseau was a painter from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation in Ontario, Canada. Known as the “Picasso of the...
Oct 31, 2022 | Art, News & Trending, Organizations
Monet painting “Meules” (“Haystacks”) wasn’t damaged, in the latest food-based activist protest stunt. The climate activist group Letzter Generation (Last Generation) visited the Museum Barberini, just outside Berlin. Once inside, they put on workvests, and...
