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    Right-wing director of Warsaw contemporary art centre ousted by culture minister

    Right-wing director of Warsaw contemporary art centre ousted by culture minister

    Almost five years after taking the helm of Warsaw’s preeminent contemporary art institution, the Ujazdowski Castle (CCA), Piotr Bernatowicz has been removed from his post by the Polish minister of culture, Hanna Wróblewska.


    Florida’s Ron DeSantis Says ‘Sexual’ Festival Caused Him to Veto $32 M. in Arts Grants

    Florida’s Ron DeSantis Says ‘Sexual’ Festival Caused Him to Veto $32 M. in Arts Grants

    Democratic Representative Anna Eskamani of Orlando said this year’s festival was not “sexual,” though she noted that it “does feature drag queens and other forms of artistic expression that DeSantis has wanted to censor despite courts telling him otherwise!”


    ‘There is no panic’: artist Pavlo Makov on working in the beleaguered Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

    ‘There is no panic’: artist Pavlo Makov on working in the beleaguered Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

    Another version of The Fountain of Exhaustion is on show in the Museumsplatz in Vienna, after the MuseumsQuartier curatorial team there invited Makov to present the piece in the Austrian capital.


    UK arts bodies urge incoming government to stand up for the culture sector

    UK arts bodies urge incoming government to stand up for the culture sector

    In the Evening Standard, the columnist Anne McElvoy wrote: “Despite having covered the campaign trail over the last month, I had not heard any senior figure give any detail or signal enthusiasm for the place of the arts and culture in the great national reboot.”


    Anton van Dalen, who imaginatively chronicled life in Lower Manhattan, has died, aged 86

    Anton van Dalen, who imaginatively chronicled life in Lower Manhattan, has died, aged 86

    Located just north of Tompkins Square Park at 166 Avenue A, his home is easily recognizable by the mural that Van Dalen painted on its façade, in which the artist spelled out the word “Peace” in uppercase, stylised letters.


    Some Faint and Likely Temporary Relief on Abortion Rights

    Some Faint and Likely Temporary Relief on Abortion Rights

    Any physician who would hesitate to provide abortion care under such extreme circumstances, Bland wrote in the decision, would be “simply wrong.” It seems that doctors who fear prosecution for performing abortions—they face the possibility of six-figure fines, imprisonment, and the loss of their licenses and livelihoods if they guess wrong about what the law allows—merely need to go back and read Texas’s statute more closely.


    California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

    California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

    When we stepped inside, someone in a welder’s helmet shouted, “Watch out, we’re pouring molten metal over here!” We scurried farther into the building, to meet two young men, Alex Grant, formerly a lithium technology developer, and Jacob Brown, a chemical engineer educated at Cambridge University.


    Sotheby’s Shuffles Its Deck with Multiple Promotions and Title Swaps in Europe and Asia

    Sotheby’s Shuffles Its Deck with Multiple Promotions and Title Swaps in Europe and Asia

    Holt’s new position comes at a precarious time in the Asian art market tensions rise between China, the US, and Taiwan, which could forecast unfavorable economic and security implications, and Beijing juggling the a real estate crisis that could prove disastrous.


    Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale in London nets a tepid £83.6m and prompts question—is the summer auction season over?

    Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale in London nets a tepid £83.6m and prompts question—is the summer auction season over?

    The sale began with Oliver Barker, the chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, taking the rostrum to oversee the offering of 16 works from the collection of the late finance executive Ralph I. Goldenberg, whose trove of chic minimalism and understated Abstract Expressionism met a warm reception.


    An Around-the-World Eco-Voyage Makes a Pit Stop Near Wall Street

    An Around-the-World Eco-Voyage Makes a Pit Stop Near Wall Street

    Energy Observer passed under the Brooklyn Bridge and continued north, past a wastewater-treatment plant on Randall’s Island, an oil-and-gas facility in Astoria, and a recently decommissioned prison barge in the Bronx.


    MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint

    MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint

    The MFA has organised and hosted many major exhibitions during Teitelbaum’s time there—including shows devoted to Ansel Adams, Hokusai, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet and Jean-Michel Basquiat—though none was as closely watched as a travelling Philip Guston retrospective that was controversially postponed due to concerns about the artist’s depictions of Ku Klux Klan members.


    Comic Art Festival offers alternative to trade fair model

    Comic Art Festival offers alternative to trade fair model

    In the US, he notes, works by the underground comic icon Robert Crumb (who for years has been represented by the mega-gallery David Zwirner), have exceeded $700,000, while the original cover art for one revered issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, sketched by Todd McFarlane, went for $657,250 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas in 2012.


    Understanding John James Audubon’s avian genius

    Understanding John James Audubon’s avian genius

    John James Audubon’s watercolour of two passenger pigeons, one of his best, captures a moment so intimate that, in truth, we should not be there to witness it: two birds sharing food, their bills locking as the female bends down to her more colourful mate, whose excitement is reflected in his arched back and fanned-out tail.


    Remembering Richard Serra, the American sculptor whose monumental works conjure a sense of wonder in the world

    Remembering Richard Serra, the American sculptor whose monumental works conjure a sense of wonder in the world

    Serra was proud of his working-class roots and found a great deal of satisfaction in labour; he later set up a small removals company in downtown Manhattan called Low Rate Movers, together with his friends the composer Steve Reich, the writer and actor Spalding Gray and the artist Chuck Close.


    Walker Art Center invites visitors to reimagine its galleries

    Walker Art Center invites visitors to reimagine its galleries

    “In fact, I think there might be a certain generational shift in that too; a lot of younger people expect to be able to comment on things.” By the end of the project, the Walker had received more than 28,000 unique responses to its survey, which was offered in the four most-used languages in the region: English, Spanish, Somali and Hmong.


    James Purnell to step down as president and vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts London

    James Purnell to step down as president and vice-chancellor of the University of the Arts London

    The students’ demands include a call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, withdrawal from the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism, protection of the right for free speech and the right to organise for Palestine, and to “declare and divest from any investments or financial interests, which make the institution and its members complicit in the genocide of Palestinian people.”


    Sojung Jun: “I find it intriguing to deal with history or time”

    Sojung Jun: “I find it intriguing to deal with history or time”

    Her practice has evolved from an initial period of experimenting with theatrical stages and a curiosity with the moving image to performance-based works in an augmented documentary format and pieces where reality and virtual space coexist.


    Carrie Mae Weems Returns to ‘Kitchen Table Series,’ This Time with A$AP Rocky, for Bottega Veneta

    Carrie Mae Weems Returns to ‘Kitchen Table Series,’ This Time with A$AP Rocky, for Bottega Veneta

    That exhibition, set to open June 22, will shine a light on some of the less widely seen parts of Weems’s oeuvre, including recent shots of storefronts that were boarded up during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.


    Climate Change Protesters Arrested After Spraying Stonehenge with Orange Paint

    Climate Change Protesters Arrested After Spraying Stonehenge with Orange Paint

    Michael Pitts, an archaeologist and expert on Stonehenge, told BBC that the megaliths “are sensitive and they are completely covered in prehistoric markings which remain to be fully studied and any surface damage to the stones is hugely concerning.”


    The Strange Journey of John Lennon’s Stolen Patek Philippe Watch

    The Strange Journey of John Lennon’s Stolen Patek Philippe Watch

    When Gruen arrived, Lennon was enjoying his presents: the knit tie, which Ono had made herself (a copy of the one he wore at school in Liverpool); the flag pin; and the Patek, in yellow gold, which had a rare and highly coveted double-stamped dial, meaning that both the watchmaker’s and Tiffany’s logos were printed on it.


    Goldsmiths CCA closes until autumn amid pro-Palestine protests

    Goldsmiths CCA closes until autumn amid pro-Palestine protests

    Students occupying the Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) have said they were not told the gallery would be closing until October and had been attempting to negotiate with management before the closure was publicly announced.


    A new artist residency and incubator launches in East Detroit

    A new artist residency and incubator launches in East Detroit

    Sara Nickelson graduated from Cranbrook’s MFA programme in painting this year after a decade working as a museum curator and gallery director, and is currently represented by Detroit's Louis Buhl & Co. An open call for the next cohort of residents will be launched in 2025.