Native Artist’s Residency Canceled Over Painting Referencing Palestine Danielle SeeWalker says she feels "tokenized" by the Town of Vail in Colorado, which took issue with her artwork “G is for Genocide.” ... 05/21/2024 - 9:05 am | View Link
Lincoln student earns chance to display art at U.S. Capitol in national competition Cheryl Zeng arrived at school Monday morning thinking she'd have a fairly typical day. But instead of taking her computer science final that afternoon, the junior at Lincoln East ended up at the Steve ... 05/19/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Australia’s Richest Woman Wants a Museum to Remove an Aboriginal Artist’s Portrait of Her Australia's richest woman is demanding that the National Gallery of Australia remove an unflattering portrait of her by Vincent Namatjira. 05/17/2024 - 4:16 am | View Link
Australia’s Richest Woman Demands Gallery Remove Portrait, Artist Says Others 'Don't Have to Like My Paintings' The gallery described the exhibition as a “wry look at the politics of history, power and leadership from a contemporary Aboriginal perspective" ... 05/16/2024 - 8:58 am | View Link
Danish museum settles dispute with artist over missing cash A museum in Denmark has settled its dispute with an artist after it was presented with blank canvases despite lending him over 70,000 euros ($76,000) in cash for the works, ... 05/15/2024 - 6:02 am | View Link
On Wednesday, The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and Major League Baseball (MLB) announced an expansion of financial assistance opportunities to support players of the Negro Leagues.
The initiative will create an annual benefit to financially aid Negro League players who played for less than four seasons. While there were other Black-only leagues players participated in, the Negro National League was a professional baseball league established in 1920 as racism and Jim Crow laws barred Black players from joining professional teams with white players.
COLUMBIA, S. C. — Nikki Haley said Wednesday that she will be voting for Donald Trump in the general election, encouraging the presumptive GOP nominee to work hard to win support from those who backed her in the primary.
“I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U. N. ambassador, said during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
But Haley also made it clear that she feels Trump has work to do to win over voters who supported her during the course of the primary campaign, and continue to cast votes for her in ongoing primary contests.
“Having said that, I stand by what I said in my suspension speech,” Haley added.
The Try Guys, a group of former Buzzfeed employees turned YouTubers, is going from three guys to two, they announced Wednesday, adding that they’ll launch a new subscription-based streaming service. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Keith Habersberger and Zach Kornfeld announced that Eugene Lee Yang is stepping away from the Try Guys to focus on creative endeavors.
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Kornfeld said while Yang’s departure is “bittersweet,” he and Habersberger are excited for what’s to come from him in the future.
New York — A Michigan dairy worker has been diagnosed with bird flu — the second human case associated with an outbreak in U. S. dairy cows.
The patient had mild eye symptoms and has recovered, U. S. and Michigan health officials said in announcing the case Wednesday. The worker had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and the risk to the public remains low, officials said.
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A nasal swab from the person tested negative for the virus, but an eye swab tested positive, “indicating an eye infection,” the U.
Washington — The Republican National Committee’s Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated on Wednesday as police investigated two vials of blood that had been addressed to former President Donald Trump following the presumptive presidential nominee’s takeover of the national party apparatus.
Hazardous-materials teams were called in after the vials were discovered, according to the U.
Video of baggage handlers unloading a Delta Air Lines flight and carelessly tossing luggage and golfing equipment belonging to a Tennessee university men’s golf team went viral Wednesday, prompting the airline to issue an apology and ask the team for a second chance.
The East Tennessee State University men’s golf team posted the video on X late Tuesday night.