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2024


John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art

John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art

“John has been pushing the boundaries of art for decades and ‘crystalline work’ is his most ambitious and thought-provoking artwork to date,” Feral File cofounder Casey Reas said in a statement.


A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

A piece of the action: museum partnership in New York invites visitors to take home fragments of digital artworks

Visitors to MoMI will be able to acquire, without any costs, a fragment of digital art from moving-image works projected on the giant media wall in the museum’s lobby.


Art of the Ice Age has a lot to teach us—it’s time the British Museum dedicated a gallery to it

Art of the Ice Age has a lot to teach us—it’s time the British Museum dedicated a gallery to it

The collections include many finds from French sites like the rock shelter of La Madeleine, excavated during the 19th century, and also objects found at Montastruc on the river Aveyron—notably the famous Swimming Reindeer, brilliantly carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk.


Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam says it will return a painting by Henri Matisse to the heirs of a Jewish textiles manufacturer who sold it under duress in the Netherlands before being deported to a Nazi camp, where he died in 1945.


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.