From Patrick at Popehat comes news of a blockbuster art theft. Someone with no intention of selling the thing, and every intention of savoring it (or perhaps eliciting ransom for it), has contracted a crack team of pane-removing window climbers to cut from its frame a priceless Caravaggio:

The interesting detail here is that the […]

Art hooligans have struck again. Followers of POPaganda artist Ron English have caused a stir in Boston.  Working in a neo-Warholian mode, which both misses and reinforces whatever Warhol was on about, English has morphed portraits of Abe Lincoln and Barack Obama: Set aside the curiously Alfred E. Neumanesque effect of Lincoln’s […]

From Paul Walsh of the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul, we learn that a Christian group is objecting to the new logo for Starbucks.

According to the article, the objection boils down to some issues in anatomical iconography:
The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” Mark […]

The transhuman revolution, where art and technology call into question the perimeter of whatever constitutes humanity, continues unabated:
One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from […]

Art is human action (often, but not always, entailing the production of an artifact or the definition of a space) exercised (individually or collectively) within particular material, conceptual, and social contexts (not always harmonious) for the particular purposes (sometimes explicit and sometimes tacit) of interested parties and institutions.