Panel Talk in New York Tackles Power and Politics in Art -ARTnews
“How Soon Is Now: Art, Activism, and Accountability” at the Vera List Center at The New School in New York. JORDAN RATHKOPF Against a backdrop of protest and activism surrounding…
Anne Imhof’s Arduous, Mesmerizing Latest Work Touches Down in Chicago -ARTnews
Eliza Douglas in rehearsal for Anne Imhof, Sex, 2019. NADINE FRACZOWSKI/COURTESY GALERIE BUCHHOLZ, BERLIN, COLOGNE, AND NEW YORK To enter a performance by Anne Imhof is to part ways with…
Artists and Curators Address Brooklyn Museum’s History with African-American Art -ARTnews
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Big Rabbit, Little Rabbit, 2017. COURTESY BROOKLYN MUSEUM When Linda Goode Bryant was planning to open Just Above Midtown, her storied gallery, in 1974, the artist Romare…
Khloe Kardashian attends high school prom with super fan
A Khloé Kardashian fan had a prom night to remember with the glam reality star as his date. Narbeh, a superfan who has an Instagram account dedicated to the famous…
Black Pennsylvania man charged with alleged racially motivated train station attack
Willie Hayes, 46, has been charged with ethnic intimidation, attempted homicide and aggravated assault after he allegedly attacked a man in Pittsburgh. ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL In what is believed to…
‘Winnie the Pooh’ voice actor denies rape accusations, claims ex-wife extorting him
The voice actor behind “Winnie the Pooh” says his ex-wife’s accusations of rape and animal abuse are an extortion attempt. Jim Cummings claims ex Stephanie Cummings’s allegations “are baseless and…
Family of woman who committed suicide after prison guards bet on her life, awarded $860K
Metropolitan Detention Center (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) The family of Janika Edmond, the woman who died by suicide after prison guards placed a bet on her life, has been awarded $860,000.…
Tony DeLap, Maker of Inventive Abstract Art That Embraced Illusion and Magic, Is Dead at 91 -ARTnews
Tony DeLap, Wiljalba, 1967. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PARRASCH HEIJNEN GALLERY The artist Tony DeLap, who spent more than 50 years cutting an idiosyncratic, ever-shifting path through the field of…
Pioneering rocker Roky Erickson dead at 71
Roky Erickson, the blue-eyed, dark-haired Texan who headed the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, a pioneering psychedelic rock band in the 1960s that scored with “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” has died.…
Bill Cosby drops defamation countersuit against 7 of his accusers
In this April 26, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby, center, leaves the the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Cosby will be sentenced on Sept. 24, five months after he…