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2024 June


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.