Artists and activists rallied outside the entrance of the Art Basel Miami convention center to demand a permanent ceasefire in Palestine. Protestors also called for an end to Miami-Dade County’s investments in Israeli bonds. Demonstrators lined up along Convention Center Drive holding
Arts and cultural workers staged a sit-in at London’s Tate Modern on Nov 26, to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Dozens of demonstrators gathered in the museum’s Turbine Hall to show their solidarity with the Palestinian community and to pressure
The main entrance of the Whitney Museum of American Art was doused with fake blood during a march for Gaza in Manhattan yesterday afternoon, November 22. A video posted online by the Palestinian-American youth movement Within Our Lifetime shows the aftermath of
The photographer Nan Goldin announced that she had called off a project for the New York Times Magazine because of the newspaper’s pro-Israel bias in its reporting on Gaza. Goldin said: “Yesterday, I canceled a big job with the New York Times
The Frick Pittsburgh museum has postponed an upcoming Islamic art exhibition, citing concerns that it “risked trivialising Islamic culture at an extraordinarily complex time” and could be a source of “unintended insensitivity or offense” and a “distraction,” reported the Independent. The decision
Dozens of Hollywood actors and artists, including comedian Jon Stewart and Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, wrote on Friday to U.S. President Joe Biden, urging him to press for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct.
Renowned actors Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Khalid Abdalla are among more than two thousand people from across the arts who have signed a letter saying that: “Our governments are not only tolerating war
Palestinian workers in the Gaza Strip have found dozens of ancient graves, including two sarcophagi made of lead, in a Roman-era cemetery, a site dating back some 2,000 years that archaeologists describe as the largest cemetery discovered in Gaza. Workers came upon