Incarcerated women serve as guides to the show, which reflects Pope Francis’ longtime commitment to society’s marginalized people.
Tag: Art
Monday Briefing
The implications of Israel’s attack on Iran.
A Reverse Art Heist? Museum Finds Employee’s Painting on Its Wall
The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich said it had fired a worker for hanging one of his own pieces in its modern art collection.
Da Vinci’s Been Dead for 500 Years. Who Gets to Profit from His Work?
Italian officials and a German puzzle maker are battling over a 1,000-piece puzzle bearing the image of the artist’s “Vitruvian Man.”
Protests Over Gaza Intensify at American Art Museums
A protest at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco led to the resignation of its leader and to a monthlong closure of its galleries.
Teacher Secretly Sold His Students’ Art on Mugs and Shirts, Lawsuit Says
Parents of a dozen students at a school near Montreal accused an art teacher in a lawsuit of reproducing portraits from a class assignment and putting them on items that he offered for sale online.
The Music That Made Us
What happens when we re-encounter cultural artifacts that were deeply important to us and they’ve changed, or we have, or both?
MONA Ladies Lounge Accused of Discriminating by Gender
Gender-based discrimination is central to the women-only art installation, in Australia, but one visitor claims it is also illegal.
Activists Deface Portrait of Balfour, Who Supported Jewish Homeland
A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of the author of the Balfour Declaration at the University of Cambridge in England.
‘Decolonizing’ Ukrainian Art, One Name-and-Shame Post at a Time
Oksana Semenik’s social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists — and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian.