The extreme college workout facility is passé – now it’s cool, newly renovated and/or expanded museums that attract undergrads and their tuition-paying parents. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/design/museums-colleges-universities.html
“The pope greeted the inmates of the Giudecca prison individually in an inner courtyard. Some gave him flowers, and others pressed envelopes and notes in his hands.” – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/world/europe/venice-biennale-prison-vatican-pope.html
The Shirley card, which set Kodak color processing values, was intensely racist. – El País English
“‘It’s a shop disguised as an exhibition, or an exhibition disguised as a shop,’ Clark said. ‘We kind of built a house, and we blew the roof off,’ Altay added.”- The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/arts/design/walker-art-center-minneapolis.html
At the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, for instance, an Art Crawl “is held three times a month for newborns through 14-month-old children, who can crawl freely through selected galleries and ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/design/museums-childrens-programs.html
“Such a move would give visitors, many of whom visit the Louvre for the famous painting alone, a better experience, Laurence des Cars told the broadcaster France Inter.” – Agence France-...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/27/mona-lisa-louvre-move-own-room
The architects describe the building as acting like a microchip on a circuit board, a central meeting point connected to all parts of the university campus. There is no front or back, but nine e...
“A recent survey showed tourists did not enjoy the experience (of seeing the famous portrait), with comments ranging from ‘never been so disappointed’ to ‘torture.'” Says the museum’...
“The Art Institute of Chicago contends that decades of investigation and litigation have concluded that a watercolor it now holds was never stolen by the Nazis from a cabaret performer who lat...
“An audit report conducted by France’s Court of Auditors revealed that the Centre Pompidou‘s economic model is unsustainable. The museum faces financial strain from an ongoing renovation p...
It was commissioned by a family of Jewish industrialists in 1917, a year before Klimt’s death. However, there are many unanswered questions about the painting and debates about who the woman i...
The Turner Prize carries a £25,000 purse; shortlisted artists will be awarded £10,000. The Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain opens on September 25 and runs through 16 February, 2025. �...
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/turner-prize-names-four-nominees-for-40th-edition-1234704519/
“The building’s programming will take place across three stories, with one section of the building dedicated to a large multi-purpose event and performance space that will ‘merge seamlessl...
https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/19/renzo-piano-boca-raton-cultural-centre-florida/#new_tab
Somehow, this grand festival of creativity has vitality, often substance, and a sense of context wider than the usual web of art-world connections and hierarchies. – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2024/04/20/venice-biennale-2024-art/
Over the next two years, the site will see construction of an administration and archives building, a new program center, a guest bungalow for visiting speakers and fellows, a plaza for events, ...
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/rothko-chapel-houston-begins-42-million-expansion-1234704252/
The exhibition’s top prizes both went to Indigenous artists, with the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition going to the Mataaho Collective, which consists of four Māori women artists....
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/2024-venice-biennale-golden-lion-winners-1234703947/
“The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has become musea non grata to the Italian government after a yearslong dispute over a Pentelic marble copy of a lost bronze by the ancient Greek sculpto...
Variously titled president or chairman in different news reports, the new head of the Orsay and its sister institution, the Musée de l’Orangerie, is Sylvain Amic, most recently director of th...
https://www.artforum.com/news/sylvain-amic-named-chairman-musee-dorsay-552657/#new_tab
“Rather than enlarging its physical footprint, LACMA aims to broaden its cultural reach, influence and presence in the West, and globally — a benign Manifest Destiny for the California visua...
Look at the way most branding agencies describe themselves today and “strategy” now gets top billing. Design is out. Strategy is in. – Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/91107849/is-the-rise-of-strategy-the-death-of-design
As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there. But it fits LACMA’s similarly bad — and unprecedented — decision to build a new, hugely expensive permanent collection building ...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-04-22/lacma-satellite-las-vegas-museum-of-art
The Zimmerman House was designed by architect Craig Ellwood in 1950, and was – before Pratt and his wife, Kathryn Schwarzenegger, had it torn down, a fine example of mid-century modern archite...
An Italian gallery “is appealing for further research to help identify an anonymous painter who specialised in street scenes that often depict poor people in northern Italy wearing what looks ...
“This is, after all, the guy who changed it all by introducing emotional intensity and identifiable humanity into the business of representing biblical stories.” – The Observer (UK)
That is, to miniature art and the museums that collect it. “Miniatures imitate life but have no clear practical purpose. They can be harder to make than their full-size counterparts. But they ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/miniature-art-museums-thorne-rooms-bonsais/678133/
So … the show is for what audience, exactly? Probably not the incarcerated: “As if involuntarily submitting to state power wasn’t enough, one of the world’s most influential art organiza...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/inside-venice-biennale-holy-see-pavilion-2471982
After the artist’s death, the collective wants to remind the world of Ringgold’s dream: “I have a dream that one day the art world will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ...
https://hyperallergic.com/903721/faith-ringgold-had-a-dream-we-must-keep-it-alive/
“In total, police laid more than 40 charges against eight people in March 2023. The investigation led to the seizure of more than 1,000 pieces of forged artwork.” Now, Benjamin Morrisseau...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/norval-morrisseau-fraud-investigation-court-1.7177419
“The exhibition’s top prizes both went to Indigenous artists, with the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition going to the Mataaho Collective, which consists of four Māori women artis...
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/2024-venice-biennale-golden-lion-winners-1234703947/
“We are not a museum, just a neighborhood frame shop in Evanston, Illinois. … The art is unrelenting. … When I get home at night, I collapse in a chair, mute and unable to move. The art fe...
“‘The motive behind (the caper) was to see if the directors of the museum were prepared to practise what they preach,’ said one person familiar with the events (at Munich’s Pinakothek de...
Around 100 protestors gathered outside of the Israeli Pavilion in the Giardini and moved toward other national pavilions, like those of the U.S., France, and Germany, chanting “stop the genoci...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pro-palestine-protestors-demonstrations-venice-2471140
Orlando Whitfield (as recounted in his new book): “I mean, this is great, but it’s on a fucking wall. A door was one thing, but this is different.” Philbrick: “I know. But it has to be d...
Due to funding cuts and an existing deficit, the main gallery in Cardiff could eliminate up to 90 staff positions, and it may have to start charging for admission for the first time. Water leaks...
https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/cardiffs-national-museum-is-facing-threat-of-closure-041724#new_tab
Cellist and composer Niles Luther, 27, “is kicking off his residency by composing three musical arrangements to accompany the exhibition ‘Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo’ (feat. Taka...
Said church is the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, where a year-long (and rather delicate) project to place 438 panels on the roof was just completed. A desecration of historic architectu...
“Armed with snobbish hipster fury and signage that read ‘God Hates Renoir,’ ‘ReNOir,’ and ‘We’re Not Iconoclasts, Renoir Just Sucks At Painting,’ the group briefly received consi...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-renoir-sucks-movement-2455217#new_tab
Mario Piana, the Proto (architect) responsible for the maintenance of St Mark’s Basilica, in Venice, has warned that the city’s historic building stock is crumbling from the bottom up beca...
British Museum chairman George Osborne reportedly clashed with officials from the Prime Minister’s office over the selection of the institution’s next museum director prior to the appoint...
The leader in charge of the reconstruction efforts says the giant project is within budget and on schedule, with official reopening planned for this December 8. Here’s a run-down of what’s b...
https://www.dw.com/en/notre-dame-state-of-the-restoration-5-years-after-the-fire/a-65301931#new_tab
The 13 “Mays,” large-scale 17th-century paintings which had hung in the cathedral’s side chapels, were evacuated from the burning edifice with only a bit of water damage. After conservatio...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/14/notre-dame-fire-paintings-exhibition#new_tab
“Artist Ruth Patir said the exhibit … ‘will only open when the release of hostages and ceasefire agreement happens’ in a statement shared on Instagram Tuesday. Patir said she would raise...
Armed with snobbish hipster fury and signage that read “God Hates Renoir,” “ReNOir,” and “We’re Not Iconoclasts, Renoir Just Sucks At Painting,” the group briefly received consider...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-renoir-sucks-movement-2455217
“For almost five years, Parisians looked into a sad emptiness when they walked past Notre-Dame and looked up. The void reminded them of a national trauma” of April 15, 2019. – Der Spiegel (...
But then, the work is also affecting. “The line between a certain irony, and the suspension of disbelief, turns out to be extremely fine.” – The Guardian (UK)
“Peter DeSalvo Jr., the father of the first person to die by suicide , faulted the developer for not heeding warnings from experts or implementing safety measures after his death.” – The N...
“Last week, the city of Detroit installed a budget-looking sign on I-94 that spells out its name in mint-green lettering reminiscent of chewing-gum packaging. The local reaction to it has been...
https://www.vulture.com/article/gmac-cash-detroit-sign-diss.html
“It’s usually art-world people and critics, who tend to say it every two years, as if the museum has ever intentionally sought controversy or embraced radical politics. That’s never been t...
https://hyperallergic.com/901709/stop-calling-the-2024-whitney-biennial-safe/
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the museum applauded the mischievous initiative. “We think this is funny and would like to know the artist,” a spokesperson wrote. “So get in touch! There w...
Yep, that’s pretty surreal. – Forbes
“Mythical Greek figures … are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall. … It was likely the walls’ stark colour was chosen to hide the smoke deposits from lamps used d...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741#new_tab
The museum fired a member of its technical services team after he was found to have hung one of his own paintings in a part of the gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary art, allowing him ...
“Critics need to be more flexible than artists. You have to be open to being changed and pushed into new directions. … My main goal has always been to point out art that people would enjoy s...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/insider/roberta-smith.html#new_tab
Tilted Arc (1981) was commissioned by U.S. General Services Administration for Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. “Serra intended to elicit a connection between those walking through the space ...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world-archives/richard-serra-tilted-arc-2463230#new_tab
New scientific investigations into the embodied experience of viewing art point us toward more concrete answers, but also more questions. – Hyperallergic
https://hyperallergic.com/879067/whats-behind-our-emotional-reactions-to-art/
“How does the Taj Mahal’s history — one that has come to visually represent the period of the Mughal Empire, an Islamic empire — sit within the narrative of a contemporary India during a...
“(The donation) of more than 300 pieces, including works by Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, greatly diversifies the permanent holdings. The gift also opens a relationship with a New York...
As with excavations near Egyptian pyramids, sometimes the team finds something they never expected. In the case of the Castro, it was an entire theatrical arch (known as a proscenium) that frame...
https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/04/castro-theatre-renovation-ape/
The project, which will add 95,000 square feet of new or upgraded public and gallery space and is expected to be complete late next year, is intended to make the museum and its grounds into a �...
“Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec’s Espace Riopelle addition has started — but the budget has almost doubled. The original budget was $42.5 million, but now that site preparation ...
Photo dumps are reminiscent of Facebook albums: a collection of pictures you post to let the world know what you’ve been up to. Photo dumps feel retro. They’re the film cameras and vinyl mus...
His paintings sold for tens of thousands of dollars, but so did fakes created by former apprentices, strangers, even his own relatives. For years, Norval Morrisseau and Gabe Vadas, his business ...
“Seeking a temporary restraining order to preserve , Miss alleges that the Center both failed to consult her before determining that the installation wasn’t salvageable and allowed the work ...
“His artwork, inspired by ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, included fireplaces in the shape of a lion and a minotaur, Egyptian and Greek murals painted floor to ceiling, and a Roman altar in ...
They stole Yogi Berra’s World Series rings. “‘These kinds of artifacts tell people the story of who we are, and they connect us to the past in a way that really nothing else can,’ said ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/arts/design/the-gang-that-preyed-on-americas-small-museums.html
“During these dark times, many people turned to art, and the Topaz Art School was born, where hundreds took classes in still-life and architectural drawing within the internment camp at Tanf...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/arts/hayakawa-hibi-okubo-japanese-art-exhibit.html
“Perhaps the real story here is how Marlborough managed to last nearly eight decades when so many galleries have only a decade in the sun. This confirms its business model of selling apparentl...
“1300 B.C.E. Copper and tin smelters around the eastern Mediterranean encounter a shortage of materials and begin experimenting with some other ores, eventually producing implements out of iro...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/06/opinion/richard-serra-art.html
The result is a skyline that’s no longer just a backdrop or a distant view or a pleasantly hard-edged contrast with the soft green clouds of woodland. Instead, it’s a constant presence, loom...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-supertalls-have-walled-in-central-park/ar-BB1l1ML8
Bologna’s Garisenda town is in trouble. After sensors attached to the monument, which leans at a 3.6 degree angle, picked up “anomalous movements” last year, alarmed experts issued what on...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/world/europe/bologna-pisa-leaning-tower-italy.html
The 947-year-old, 230-foot-long graphic-novel-in-embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest is actually missing one section; roughly eight to ten feet long, it is believed to depict the coronation...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-bayeux-tapestry-2444987#new_tab
“A 55-year-old American attorney named Bradley J. Gordon and three Cambodian women working for him are at the helm of a broadening expedition to recover thousands of artifacts that disappeared...
“We turn a blind eye to the consequences of this extreme ‘biennialization’ of the city. Functions for citizens disappear and consequently citizens disappear. And the city disappears.” �...
https://hyperallergic.com/882347/italian-heritage-group-decries-biennalization-of-venice/
News that the drawing is going on the market is likely to expand what has until now been a rather low-key, academic debate over the authorship of a work that has remained in private hands, and m...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/arts/design/michelangelo-villa-drawing-for-sale.html
“(Earl Marshawn) Washington … was sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. He was also ordered to pay restitution to victims in the total amount of $203,240.90 and serve...
The Kherson Art Museum, which was looted by Russian forces in November 2022, says it spotted the items in its collection in a video shot at the Central Museum of Tavrida in Crimea, which Russia ...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kherson-art-museum-identifies-looted-paintings-2462258#new_tab
The artifacts are sacred wood and stone altar tablets, or tabots, that were stolen by British soldiers during the Battle of Maqdala. The items have never been on public display. – ARTnews
As the chief curator, Conaty said she plans to focus on Latino and Indigenous artists, who remain underrepresented in the Whitney’s collection, and invest in emerging talent. But she also inte...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/arts/design/whitney-museum-curator-conaty.html
An attorney for collector Uthman Khatib says that the paintings — including works attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Natalia Goncharova, and collectively worth more than �...
“James Sheen, 39, pleaded guilty to burglary, converting or transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the same. … The fully functioning toilet” — titled ‘America’ — “wa...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/style/man-guilty-gold-toilet-gbr-scli-intl/index.html#new_tab
The Mill at Limetz (1888) is expected to sell for between $18 million and $25 million at Christie’s next month. The Nelson-Atkins owns only a two-thirds interest in the painting, and the heirs...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nelson-atkins-monet-auction-2461724#new_tab
“The information watchdog is investigating the British Museum over claims it has been overly secretive about some of the most sensitive items in its collection – a group of sacred Ethiopian ...
From Jeanne Claude and Christo’s wrappings to Banksy’s newest tree, “public art requires us to be present, to bring it to life with our imaginations, to think about how it was constructed,...
“The group now has 20,000 members worldwide and covers ‘every single aspect of Banksy’ from the 1990s to today, Mrs Holmes said. The group also shares information on what condition Banksy�...
Because of course they are. For instance: “Spray painters still add political messages to the mosaic of artwork in east London. But they are nestled between more commercial interests: hand-pai...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/business/graffiti-real-estate-gentrification.html
Or maybe never found it. “The problem with Warhol … is that his art doesn’t lend itself to extended aesthetic contemplation. Once you’ve seen Brillo Boxes or his soup cans once, you’...
https://hyperallergic.com/880867/how-the-andy-warhol-museum-lost-its-way/
This year we can finally answer: things are back to normal. Mostly. Our exclusive survey reveals that in 2023 many of the world’s largest museums recorded very similar numbers to those of 2...
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/26/the-100-most-popular-art-museums-in-the-world-2023
According to the lawsuit filed by Denise Lewis, who worked at the museum from 2017 until her firing in January of this year, the museum’s director sought to use the institution’s funds to pa...
“For more than five years, (Thomas) Little has performed this kind of alchemy, purchasing handguns and automatic rifles from pawn shops and dissolving the iron-heavy parts in acid to form iron...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/style/thomas-little-inkmaking-guns-art/index.html#new_tab
The Galleria dell’Accademia’s director, Cecilie Hollberg, has positioned herself as David’s defender since her arrival at the museum in 2015, taking swift aim at those profiteering from ...
“Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario gathered on the picket line as they began strike action Tuesday. After months of negotiations, union members … voted to reject the gall...
The loss of the bridge is first a human tragedy. Then it is an economic shock, with a radiating toll that won’t be fully understood for years. But it’s also a powerful symbolic shock, given...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-beauty-and-the-terrible-demise-of-the-key-bridge/ar-BB1kEr45
The conceit of a vanity museum’s design being dubbed “the veil and the vault,” with a perforated exterior draped over a treasury for a private collection being made public, was always mo...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-27/broad-museum-expansion-commentary
The Broad on Wednesday announced a $100-million building expansion that will increase gallery space at one of Los Angeles’ most popular museums by 70%. The sweeping plans could provide a criti...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-03-27/broad-expansion-more-galleries
“The country’s Māori population now numbers 17% and rising, and the new generation’s enthusiastic embrace of tribal cultural identity is making their presence more visible than ever, … ...
“The agreement, which (ended a three-week strike and) will be in effect for two years, will increase average pay for bargaining unit’s roughly 120 members by more than 12 percent by the seco...
“The outgoing National Portrait Gallery director (Nicholas Cullinan) replaces former Victoria and Albert Museum head Sir Mark Jones, who was made interim director following the resignation of ...
As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as funds are increasingly allocated to o...
“I thought we would sell out and would probably have about half a million visitors. In the end we had 650,000, but we could have easily sold two million tickets. That’s something I didn’t ...
“The Smithsonian’s internal Office of the Inspector General last month released a report saying that the institution misused a portion of the $7.5 million it received in COVID relief funds f...
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-covid-relief-funds-misuse-1234700984/#new_tab
With the completion of the Chapel of the Assumption in 2025 and the last and highest of its six towers the following year, construction of architect Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece will conclude a...
The print was inspired by U.S. President Nixon’s trip to China to meet Chairman Mao Zedong, ending years of diplomatic isolation between the U.S. and China, according to the Metropolitan Muse...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-25/andy-warhol-art-stolen-from-orange-coast-college
“Four period rooms that the Brooklyn Museum put up for auction (went) for as much as 30 times their low estimates.” The items were sold to free up exhibition space for parts of the museum’...
https://news.artnet.com/market/brooklyn-museum-period-rooms-sale-results-2457499#new_tab
Not only are digital images infinitely malleable, but the tools to manipulate them are as common as dirt. For anyone paying attention, this has been clear for decades. – Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/the-end-of-photography-as-evidence-of-anything/
This year’s event, called “Even Better Than The Real Things,” features 71 artists, whose works include short films, sculpture and abstract painting. – Gothamist
“As the quilt was spread out across the museum’s main entrance, activists encircled the display, carrying signs that read ‘We See Genocide,’ ‘Let Gaza Live,’ and ‘None Of Us Are Fr...
https://hyperallergic.com/879985/activists-unfurl-massive-quilt-for-gaza-on-met-museum-steps/
The Art Institute’s effort to change “can especially be seen in the museum’s arts of the Americas department, where 33 percent of its acquisitions in 2016-23 were by named women artists �...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/art/2024/03/22/art-institute-chicago-adding-elevating-women-artists
The Sun Valley museum has no permanent collection, a small exhibition space, and an audience that’s mixed – contemporary art-fan resort visitors and local kids. The curator says, “I think ...
https://slate.com/podcasts/working/2024/03/curate-an-art-museum-small-town-sun-valley
“At Happy Mediums Café, there’s nothing edible on the menu.” – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/arts/design/nyc-art-cafe.html
“Kahlo’s red lipstick and fingernails, the yarn decorating her woven hair and blouse, and perhaps even the high blush of her cheeks are thought to symbolize her Communist sympathies.” Then...
It’s not incredibly popular, “with some viewing the project as ‘hostile’ and ‘corporate’ when juxtaposed with the original building as well as the surrounding Bowery neighborhood.”...
https://hyperallergic.com/879696/new-yorkers-arent-thrilled-about-the-new-museum-expansion/
The people of Clifton have their theories about the bench plaque whose text ends with, “Yes, Roger, I knew.” – The Observer (UK)
“The eye-catching proposal, which was formally submitted to (Los Angeles) city planning authorities this week, will transform a two-acre site on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard into a 22-story ...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/style/la-the-star-norman-foster/index.html#new_tab
The sale of the downtown facility will dramatically alter perceptions of the museum’s long-standing binational mandate, aimed at artists and audiences in the border area of San Diego and Tijua...
“The long-running arts organization, which specializes in project-based community programming, currently has more than $3.68 million in funding for the year. However, (Mayor Cherelle Parker’...
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what it is, what it does – have been with us since th...
“Museums have tried and failed in the past to assemble the (surviving) eight panels, spread among five museums in Europe and the United States, of the original 30-piece polyptych.” The paint...
“A trio of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens will remain with their current owner, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the UK Parliament’s spoliation advisory panel ruled. … The panel, which det...
Despite being surrounded by a protective metal fence, white paint was thrown onto the artwork and discovered by local residents on the morning of March 20. – ARTnews
“When Pope Benedict XIV sent a team of three mathematicians to inspect the dome in 1742, they found, as Benedict suspected they might, a cataclysm waiting to happen.” They worked out calcula...
“The iconic medieval monument immortalized in history, film and literature has been gradually rebuilt over the past five years, through challenges that have included delays during the pandemic...
https://apnews.com/article/notre-dame-fire-timeline-paris-f6859b8ad959b35e35defa56dd582317#new_tab
What the research revealed was an overworked workforce overly reliant on volunteers, snowballing costs and shrinking funding. Small museums and galleries in the provinces and rural communities a...
https://thebigidea.nz/stories/culture-crisis-can-nzs-museums-be-saved
Patrick Moore joined the Warhol Museum as the director of development in 2011, and assumed other leading administrative roles at the museum before being appointed director in 2017. – Hyperall...
https://hyperallergic.com/878088/patrick-moore-to-resign-as-andy-warhol-museum-director/
The number of people visiting the most-visited 100 museums fell from 230 million in 2019 to just 54m in 2020. Although the total number of visitors to the top 100 museums was 176 million in 202...
Figures showed the South Kensington attraction had its best-ever year, with a 22% increase in visitors to 5,688,786. The most-visited outdoor attraction was Windsor Great Park, which is managed ...
“The (secret police) have reportedly searched at least 30 artists’ homes and studios across at least eight cities. … Among those targeted were members of feminist punk collective Pussy Riot...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/russias-fsb-investigates-artists-2453246#new_tab