The Reel Awareness Film Series is an artistic and social vehicle used to bring human trafficking to the forefront. This modern-day form of slavery is happening right here in New York City. Unfortunately, the average New Yorker is unaware that human trafficking exists. The Reel Awareness Film Series seeks to change that.

In a move sure to raise some art-world hackles, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has opted to include a fully operational Louis Vuitton boutique in the midst of its fall retrospective of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.

Donald Fisher, the 78-year-old founder of the Gap, has announced plans to construct a museum near the Golden Gate Bridge. The proposed 100,000-square-foot building will house Fisher’s enormous collection of contemporary art — said to be worth more than $1 billion — including pieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Alexander Calder, and Gerhard Richter.