Trump’s order to “make federal buildings beautiful again”—a move that many believed echoed mandates by fascist leaders of the 20th century—is no more, thanks to President Biden.  This week, Biden overturned Trump’s “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” executive order, which the former president signed into law last December during a ...

When Roberta McCain, the mother of the late senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, died last year at age of 108, she left behind a lot of stuff. Roberta McCain, it turns out, was an avid collector of antiques, trinkets, and art, most of which she collected during her travels ...

It’s been more than 70 years since Jean Dubuffet introduced the idea of Art Brut, and the art world is still learning to embrace the genre of art made outside of more industry-approved avenues of production. Now, there’s another evolution of the genus to consider: Photo Brut.  So posits a ...

The populist mayor of the southern French city of Perpignan must re-close the four museums he opened earlier this month in defiance of the national lockdown, a Montpellier administrative court ruled Monday. Last week, Louis Aliot, Perpignan’s mayor and the vice president of the far-right National Rally ...

Yet another change in leadership is coming to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This week, in a unexpected letter to employees, the institution announced that Klaus Biesenbach will move from his current post as director to that of artistic director, while the museum’s board will seek a candidate ...