One of this year's MacArthur fellows — the so-called 'genius grant' — the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is inspired by her family's African roots, her Cuban childhood and modern American life.
Denmark's Kunsten Museum loaned artist Jens Haaning about $76,400 to create two pieces of modern art. Instead, he submitted two blank canvases and titled the work Take the Money and Run.
George Lefont, who owned a number of independent cinemas in the city that still loom large in movie-lovers’ minds, has died at 85. He was suffering from complications related to Parkinson’s Disease.
The French-born Françoise Gilot had long made her frustration clear that despite acclaim for her art she would still be best known for her relationship with the older Picasso.
Megan Danielle is one step closer to being crowned the next “American Idol,” earning a spot in the show’s top 3 after a night filled with fan-favorite Disney songs.
Mutu, who lives in Nairobi and Brooklyn, is the star of a show at New York's New Museum. Her art takes on viruses, genocide, junk mail (the "sleeping serpent" is full of it), her own hybrid identity.
