In 2007, the British street artist Banksy painted a rat with a slingshot in the West Bank, ostensibly to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He spray-painted the work on the concrete wall of an abandoned Israeli military outpost near the towering “apartheid wall” that Israel built around the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Now, the work…
Artists in Canada might soon join artists in more than 90 countries who enjoy a resale royalty right, giving them a cut of the profits when their work rises in value. Canadian ministers François-Philippe Champagne and Pablo Rodriguez are currently drafting reforms of copyright law to afford artists royalties when their works appreciate in the secondary market.…
Two Manhattan-based artists claim that law enforcement officers from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation forced them out of Christopher Street Pier for exhibiting their work. Michael Alan Alien and Jadda Cat — life partners whose Living Installation project combines performance and mixed-media collage — were painting at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park on Tuesday, August 16,…
It’s important, as we casually stroll into climate change apocalypse, to take time to see the sights — for example, some stunning ancient Buddhist statues revealed by the receding waters of the Yangtze River during a dramatic drought affecting southwestern China. A once-submerged island off the city of Chongqing has appeared in the dwindling river,…
Sculpture Space, a residency program for sculptors in Utica, New York, was ransacked and severely damaged by vandals in the early hours of Sunday, August 28. The Utica Police Department told Hyperallergic that an investigation is ongoing. The motive for the attack remains unclear. Several donated pieces of artwork for an upcoming charity auction were…
The city of Pompeii was buried in virtually an instant and has taken centuries to excavate, lending itself to an enduring fascination with a moment in history that continues to yield new insights. Most recently, a small complex of furnished rooms has been opened in a structure within Regio V, one of the largest districts within…
Today, September 7, the White House unveiled a second set of official Obama portraits in an event hosted by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden and attended by the Obamas. In keeping with tradition, the former president and first lady chose the artists who would paint them — Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung,…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has declined the Noguchi Museum’s 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award in a gesture of support for former workers at the institution who were fired for wearing keffiyehs, headscarves popular in many Arab countries and symbolic of Palestinian heritage and solidarity. “Jhumpa Lahiri has chosen to withdraw her acceptance of the 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award…
Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of the pyramids at Giza — a massive monument complex built some 4,500 years ago, and one of the seven wonders of the ancient world — is the way they rise from the surrounding landscape of barren desert. The logistics of building such an edifice would be staggering under any…
Wisconsin civil rights activist and politician Vel Phillips had a reputation for making historic breakthroughs during her lengthy career in public service. After becoming both the first Black person and the first woman on the Milwaukee Common Council in 1956, she went on to win a position in Wisconsin’s state committee, becoming the first Black woman elected…