November 24, 2021

Nearly half of Americans think the biggest problem among the country’s cultural organizations is racism, according to a new Culture Track survey. Of the 78,000 people that weighed in for the report, called “Culture and Community in a Time of Transformation,” 42 percent said cultural organizations need to address systemic racial injustices—the most common choice

In 2009 or 2010, three looted sculptures were taken from the ancient city of Palmyra. Several years later, customs officers in Switzerland seized them at a Geneva freeport. At last, they’re heading home to Syria, the Art Newspaper reports. The three sculptures date back to the second and third centuries B.C.E., when Palmyra was still

Gallerist Nicole Calderòn has parted company with her controversial business partner, Michael Ruiz, having dropped his name from their joint gallery in New York, Calderòn Ruiz, now called simply Calderòn. “[We will] continue the gallery’s mission to diligently foster the careers of Latinx artists,” Nicole Calderon said in a statement to Hyperallergic, which first reported the

STRANGE THAT IT’S BEEN years since I last saw live performance. But everyone was exclaiming this now-familiar platitude as they busily embraced on the sidewalk at the intersection of Rivington and

Fifty years after the 1971 film adaptation of Things Fall Apart was first screened in Bonn, Germany, Nigerian-born, Berlin-based photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi and Gisela Kayser, the artistic director