People Remembering Amos Badertscher, a Self-Taught Photographer Who Chronicled Baltimore’s Street Heroes Badertscher died this week at age 86. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2023
Law President Biden Has Established a New Monument Dedicated to Emmett Till and His Mother Mamie Till-Mobley The monument covers three sites connected to Emmett Till’s death in Mississippi. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 27, 2023
Shows & Exhibitions A New Kind of World’s Fair Is Coming to Queens. Its Message? Give Back All Indigenous Land ‘The World’s UnFair,’ as the event is called, was conceived by New Red Order and put on by Creative Time. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 25, 2023
Law A Judge Green-lit a Virginia Museum’s Plans to Melt Down a Confederate Monument, Dismissing a Lawsuit Attempting to Save It Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue was the site of the deadly “Unite the Right” rallies in 2017. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 20, 2023
Art World A Proposed Monument to Shirley Chisholm, the First Black Woman Elected to Congress, Has Finally Been Approved in New York Announced in 2018, the planned statue was delayed by the pandemic and a change in mayoral administrations. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 20, 2023
Crime A Michigan Photography Dealer Has Pled Guilty to Defrauding Multiple Collectors Out of an Estimated $1.5 Million Wendy Halstead Beard faked health conditions and invented employees to dodge clients. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 18, 2023
Museums A Belgian Magazine Is Threatening to Sue the Newly Rebranded Hermitage Amsterdam Museum for Cribbing Its Brand Identity The logo for the H’ART Museum, as the institution will soon be called, looks suspiciously similar to that of HART magazine. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 17, 2023
Art World Famed Art Dealer Massimo De Carlo Has Revealed Plans for a Monumental Private Art Foundation in Italy. Here’s What We Know The center has been “dream in the making for many years.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 17, 2023
Politics France Has Adopted a New Bill That Will Fast-Track the Return of Artworks Looted During World War II The law is the first of three new proposed amendments to French restitution laws expected to be introduced this year. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 14, 2023
Politics Jailed Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Has Penned an Op-Ed Calling for Support in the ‘Just’ Fight Against the Cuban Government Otero Alcántara is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for using “insulting symbols of the homeland” in his work. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 12, 2023
On View For Their First U.S. Museum Show, Artist Wynnie Mynerva Has Reimagined the Creation Myth as an Act of Rebellion Against the Patriarchy On view at the New Museum is a 65-foot-long painting and the artist’s own surgically removed rib. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 10, 2023
Museums Australia Has ‘Paused’ Its Prominent Public Art Program, Scrapping Sculptor Alex Seton’s Commission for Hyde Park Barracks Seton was 18 months into work on the program’s next commission when his project was canceled. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 10, 2023
Museums LGBTQ+ Communities Are Calling Out London’s V&A Museum for Removing Trans-Affirming Material from Its New Children’s Center Museum director Tristram Hunt removed two books and a poster that read “Some people are Trans. Get over it!” By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 7, 2023
Politics A Group Led by Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan Is Analyzing an Audio Recording of a French Teen’s Fatal Encounter With Police The group, Earshot, has unearthed new details about the incident by enhancing the audio from a witness's video. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 6, 2023
People Photographer Paolo Di Paolo, Who Captured Silver Screen Stars and Postwar Italy, Has Died at Age 98 For decades, the artist’s archives sat in basement boxes until his daughter discovered them by chance. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 6, 2023