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Nick Cave. Photo by Sandro. A months-long controversy involving a Nick Cave installation, building codes, and the slippery line between art and signage has finally come to a close in a tiny New York town. This week, the zoning board of the Village of Kinderhook unanimously ruled that Truth Be Told, a text work by Cave and designer Bob Faust, could remain on the facade of gallerist Jack Shainman’s upstate New York outpost, the School. It was the first time the village leaders acknowledged the...

A MUSICIAN’S controversial artwork has found a new home in an American museum.

Nick Cave in collaboration with Bob Faust, Truth Be Told (2020). © Nick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. A public art installation by artist Nick Cave that fomented a months-long political battle in a small New York town has found a new, bigger home: the Brooklyn Museum.  The artwork, installed last fall across the facade of the School, gallerist Jack Shainman’s outpost in the village of Kinderhook, reads “Truth Be Told” in 25-foot-tall black vinyl...