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Three people who were protesting outside the Asia Society headquarters in Manhattan’s Upper East Side were arrested on Friday, September 23. The demonstrators were there to express their outrage at the event transpiring beyond its…
A group of 10 visual artists can proceed with copyright claims against four companies using text-to-image generative AI, a California judge ruled Monday, August 12. The artists filed a class-action lawsuit against Stability, Midjourney, DeviantArt,…
Director Lou Ye, a member of the sixth generation of Chinese cinema, a movement of filmmakers creating subversive, unvarnished depictions of urban life in post-Tiananmen China, returns five years after Saturday Fiction (2019) with An Unfinished Film (2024), a docudrama…
A sobering celebration unfolded in London’s Trafalgar Square on Wednesday, September 18, when the latest Fourth Plinth commission by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles was unveiled. Comprised of plaster face casts, “Mil Veces un Instante (A…
Isra Irfan sat gracefully on a plush carpet in her New Jersey living room, the soft afternoon sunlight casting a warm glow over the space as her young son played nearby. Her focus was unwavering…
Poised atop a column of Egyptian granite, the bronze “Lion of Venice” looks out on the sprawling Piazzetta San Marco. The massive statue has been a symbol of the Italian city since at least 1293…
The second of two bodies buried in lead sarcophagi recovered from beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has almost certainly been identified two years after its discovery. Discovered during a preparatory dig to repair the fire-damaged church’s…
More than 30 years ago, thieves pulled off the single largest property heist in history at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Of the 13 works stolen in the early hours of March 18, 1990, six…
Carlos and Fernando Estrada-Lopez are social workers in Los Angeles, but in Gabriel García Román’s Queer Icons, they are a pair of haloed saints locked in an embrace, surrounded by floating messages in mixed Spanish and…
The J. Paul Getty Museum kicked off its PST ART: Art & Science Collide event series last Sunday, September 15, with a fiery collaboration with Chinese pyrotechnics artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Falling debris…