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2024


US National Gallery acquires four Robert Longo drawings, including one of the 6 January insurrection

US National Gallery acquires four Robert Longo drawings, including one of the 6 January insurrection

Like much of Longo’s more recent output, the works are overtly political in nature, depicting the White House, the US Capitol, the Supreme Court Building and the 6 January 2021 insurrection.


St Louis gallery takes down artists’ pro-Palestine exhibition after deeming it anti-semitic

St Louis gallery takes down artists’ pro-Palestine exhibition after deeming it anti-semitic

A St Louis art centre has come under fire for taking down artists Dani Collette and Allora McCullough's exhibition Planting Seeds, Sprouting Hope after finding some of the featured works to be antisemitic.


July Book Bag: from a giant tome of Islamic and Middle Eastern art to a biography of the overlooked British artist Mabel Nicholson

July Book Bag: from a giant tome of Islamic and Middle Eastern art to a biography of the overlooked British artist Mabel Nicholson

“Mabel was a free-spirited young girl, an adventurous and well-travelled woman; key to a glittering bohemian circle and one of the most significantly overlooked talents of early 20th-century British art,” according to the publisher.


Paul Allen’s Vintage Computer Museum Shutters, Sends Its Holdings to Auction

Paul Allen’s Vintage Computer Museum Shutters, Sends Its Holdings to Auction

“Never before has the market seen a collection of this diversity that so beautifully chronicles the history of human science and technological ingenuity—much less one assembled by a founding father of modern computing,” Marc Porter, chairman of Christie’s Americas, said in a statement.


Wing Luke Museum to Relocate Show Accused of ‘Platforming Zionist Ideology’

Wing Luke Museum to Relocate Show Accused of ‘Platforming Zionist Ideology’

The text also read, “On university campuses, pro-Palestinian groups have voiced support for Hamas (which is classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government) and a Palestinian state stretching ‘from the river to the sea,’ a phrase defined by the erasure of Israel.”


Street behind Tate Modern closed after glass panels fall from building

Street behind Tate Modern closed after glass panels fall from building

I was walking from Blackfriars to my office on Southwark Street and I saw some of the pavement was taped off, so I crossed the road and just as I got to the other side I heard a giant crash behind me.


An expert’s guide to sculpture: five must-read books on the art of the three dimensional

An expert’s guide to sculpture: five must-read books on the art of the three dimensional

“The Traumatic Surreal is a significant study exploring the pioneering contributions of German-speaking women artists working within Surrealist traditions and in response to the trauma and legacies of the Second Word War.


“The Drummer Boy on Independence Day,” by E. L. Doctorow

“The Drummer Boy on Independence Day,” by E. L. Doctorow

I have often told the story of what happened that day, and each time, in the telling, I see John Sewetti standing in the middle of that trapped, crumpled parade of people, as if he should have been wearing a sheet and sandals, the way those walking saints of India do, or holding a staff and carrying two stone tablets under his arm.


Austin gallerists boosting local art scene with joint collectors’ circle

Austin gallerists boosting local art scene with joint collectors’ circle

One of Austin’s longtime gallery patrons is Chris Tomlinson, a Hearst Newspapers columnist who, along with his wife, Shalini Ramanathan, acquires work by local artists of his generation.


Amid deaccessioning scandal and falling enrollment, Valparaiso University shuts down campus museum

Amid deaccessioning scandal and falling enrollment, Valparaiso University shuts down campus museum

A request to learn if the museum is being closed permanently or just temporarily was not answered by anyone in president Padilla’s office, although the petition described creating an art gallery in a renovated dormitory’s common reading room.


After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname

After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname

The spelling of Gnatalie (pronounced like “Natalie”) reflects the gruelling work of the palaeontologists who extracted the fossil—the most complete sauropod skeleton on the US’s West Coast—from a riverbed in the Badlands of Utah, where they endured a relentless assault of gnats.


Haruki Murakami on Raising Questions

Haruki Murakami on Raising Questions

He’s described at one point as “an anteater licking an anthill clean”; later, he talks about spiders that eat cockroaches and marvels at how “magnificent the structure of the food chain is.” Is he a predator who gets nourishment from the destruction he causes?