A Belarusian art exhibition untangling the country’s response to the coronavirus was closed by authorities this March, leading to the arrest of five of its organizers.
Toga-clad activists from BP or Not BP? crashed the British Museum’s reopening weekend to protest British Petroleum’s backing of the forthcoming exhibition Nero: the man behind the myth.
Michael Zelehoski’s plywood obelisk sculpture “Miguelito” reflects on a year of racial justice protests and is crafted with materials used to board up businesses during last summer’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
San Francisco’s program to pay artists $1,000 per month has been extended and expanded thanks to a $3.46 million donation by tech entrepreneur Jack Dorsey.
Painter Julie Mehretu is donating the proceeds from a sale of her work “Dissident Score” (2019–2021), which is expected to fetch between $3 and $4 million, to an incarceration reform nonprofit.