Art and Society

artnet news - Amid increased scrutiny from political groups, criminal investigators, and media outlets, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a slate of new initiatives to review its holdings for objects...

Domus -  “Due to public strikes, the Musée du Louvre is not able to be open for now. We thank you for your understanding,” Paris’ best-known museum wrote on Twitter last Monday. - read more ...

The NY Times  -  In an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum, conceptual Chinese photographers of the tumultuous ’90s use the human body to document their pain. - read more ...

art news -  Some six decades after Andy Warhol offered his laconic critique of consumerist culture via his silkscreens of Coke bottle after Coke bottle—“A Coke is a Coke,” he explained—Coca-Cola is delivering a...

Hyperallergic - A hand darkened with soot struggles to grab falling lead ingots in Richard Serra’s three-minute film “Catching Lead” (1969). Sometimes the hand is victorious in capturing the commodity, but ofte...

Hyperallergic -   Though it has been 25 years since her untimely demise, Diana, Princess of Wales, remains a venerated figure within the contemporary British monarchy. Among her many iconic attributes, Princess...

Hyperallergic -  The grotesquely large phallus belongs to the fertility god Priapus, a tragic figure in Roman mythology. - read more ...