Guggenheim Fellowships: Funding Arts & Humanities
Guggenheim Fellowships, awarding $30k-$45k, support artists and scholars. Celebrating a century of funding, vital amid US federal cuts to humanities and arts.
Harvard vs. Trump: DEI, Pluralism, and Academic Freedom
Harvard resists Trump's threats over DEI. Colleges shift to pluralism amid political stress. Funding frozen. The debate: Academic freedom vs. political control and culture war.
Artist Censorship: Odee’s QR Code Mural Protests Bergen University
Icelandic artist Odee protests censorship by Bergen University & Kunsthall after a planned mural was preemptively blocked. He replaced it with a QR code linking to a protest site, alleging undue influence from a fishing company.
What the World Learned from Donald Trumpâs Tariff Week
Viktor Shvets, a global-market strategist at Macquarie Capital, said, on Bloombergâs âOdd Lotsâ podcast, âI keep asking myself, âWhat is this Administration trying to do?â â Was the objective to reindustrialize the United States, or to raise revenue to help pay for tax cuts to the rich, or to change the global flow of funds?
Why Trump Backed Down on Tariffs
In an announcement, his publisher described the eighty-seven-year-oldâs latest plot as involving a private eye and a missing cheese heiress, as well as âNazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them.â It brings to mind what the magazineâs reviewer thought after reading âGravityâs Rainbowâ: âWhew!â
David Hockney 25 review: an absolutely enormous splash â â â â
A gallery of densely salon-hung portraits shows how much Hockney likes to create a world around himselfâmany family members, other artists (including the late Derek Boshier and John Baldessari), the queen of arts public relations Erica Bolton, rendered in charcoal and crayon; the designer Celia Birtwell, in tartan trousers; an unnamed man in an armchair whose red velvet upholstery looks real enough to touch.
Trump administration sued by 21 states’ attorneys general for trying to eliminate Institute of Museum and Library Services
A coalition of 21 state attorneys general is suing the administration of US President Donald Trump for attempting to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and several other agencies through executive orders and actions that, the group says in its legal filing, "are illegal several times over".
Against a tense political landscape, we can learn a lot from the cool head of a picture restorer
In times past, one of my favourite ways to switch off was to go through online auction catalogues in pursuit of mis-catalogued paintings (or âsleepersâ as the art trade calls them).
A brush with Dhyandra Lawson
Belgian film-maker Johan Grimonprez exposes how the Eisenhower administration manipulated jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong to distract from the murder of Lumumba.
How many visitors is too many? Paris museums confront âover-attendanceâ
Sylvain Amic, the president of the Ătablissement public des musĂ©es dâOrsay et de lâOrangerie (the governmental body that oversees both institutions) since April 2024, puts it plainly: âA museumâs mission is to radiateâto make known and to share its collections with the greatest number of peopleâso there is a contradiction in the idea of needing to limit how many can come.â
Art Week Riyadh will “bring together the many layers of Saudi Arabia’s art scene”
The inaugural Art Week Riyadh (6â13 April) will include presentations from more than 45 local, regional and international galleries, as well as exhibitions organised by private and institutional Saudi collections, and a public programme of talks, films, workshops and studio visits.