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    Venice: New Art Spaces Opening Soon (SMAC & Fiorucci Foundation)

    Venice: New Art Spaces Opening Soon (SMAC & Fiorucci Foundation)

    Venice is set to welcome two new art spaces: San Marco Art Centre (SMAC), focusing on art, design, and technology, and the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, showcasing contemporary art. Both initiatives promise innovative approaches.


    Rembrandt Mystery: Authenticity of Paintings Questioned

    Rembrandt Mystery: Authenticity of Paintings Questioned

    Three paintings initially attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn are now suspected to be works of his students. Technical analysis reveals inconsistencies, raising doubts about their authenticity and Rembrandt's signature.


    Gladstone & Luxembourg Art Collections at Sotheby’s Auction

    Gladstone & Luxembourg Art Collections at Sotheby’s Auction

    Sotheby's to auction art collections from Gladstone and Luxembourg, featuring Warhol, Prince, Fontana and Pistoletto. Sales reflect confidence amidst economic uncertainty.


    Trump’s Dealmaking Struggles: Tariffs, Russia, and Economic Concerns

    Trump’s Dealmaking Struggles: Tariffs, Russia, and Economic Concerns

    Trump faces dealmaking challenges amid tariff disputes, Russia relations, and economic concerns. Dimon criticizes Trump's policies. Trump struggles to deliver promised deals, facing criticism and policy reversals.


    Pregnancy in Techno-Dystopia: Control, Scrutiny, and Judgment

    Pregnancy in Techno-Dystopia: Control, Scrutiny, and Judgment

    Jessica Winter examines the increased scrutiny and control over reproduction in a post-Dobbs, pro-natalist, techno-dystopian world. The challenges of childbearing in today's political and technological environment are explored.


    Nazi-Looted Schiele Drawing: Court Orders Return to GrĂŒnbaum Heirs

    Nazi-Looted Schiele Drawing: Court Orders Return to GrĂŒnbaum Heirs

    A New York judge ordered the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) to return an Egon Schiele drawing looted by Nazis from Fritz GrĂŒnbaum. The AIC has contested the provenance, but the court sided with GrĂŒnbaum's heirs.


    Pope Francis’ Legacy: World Mourns, Successor in Focus

    Pope Francis’ Legacy: World Mourns, Successor in Focus

    World leaders mourn Pope Francis. His legacy of progressive views, advocacy for the poor and climate action sparks search for a successor. The election by 138 cardinals will shape the Church's future.


    Stolpersteine: Remembering Nazi Victims in Haarlem

    Stolpersteine: Remembering Nazi Victims in Haarlem

    Haarlem grapples with Stolpersteine, stumbling stones, to memorialize Nazi victims. A controversial art project sparks debate and a new city memorial for non-Jewish victims, honoring resistance and remembrance.


    Jeremy Deller: Art Events Across the UK

    Jeremy Deller: Art Events Across the UK

    Jeremy Deller brings unique art events to UK locations, including London's National Gallery, Plymouth, Wales & Derry/Londonderry. These public events mix art, music, mythology, & local culture.


    Trump’s Attacks: Defunding Science and Health at Harvard & Beyond

    Trump’s Attacks: Defunding Science and Health at Harvard & Beyond

    The Trump Administration's attacks on science & health facilities are defunding crucial programs at Harvard, NIH, CDC, impacting research, public health, and endangering American innovation. Grants termination have struck universities nationwide.


    Basquiat’s ‘Baby Boom’ at Christie’s: $20M-$30M Estimate

    Basquiat’s ‘Baby Boom’ at Christie’s: $20M-$30M Estimate

    Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Baby Boom' (1982), a stylized family picture painting, heads Christie's 21st-century sale with a $20M-$30M estimate. Formerly owned by Peter Brant, it references post-WWII birthrates.


    Imran Qureshi: Miniatures, Scale, and Pakistani Culture

    Imran Qureshi: Miniatures, Scale, and Pakistani Culture

    Artist Imran Qureshi explores miniatures, scale, and Pakistani culture, drawing inspiration from history, politics, and everyday life. His Concrete exhibit blends large works with miniature paintings and woven charpai.


    Geffen Countersues Sun Over Giacometti Sculpture Dispute

    Geffen Countersues Sun Over Giacometti Sculpture Dispute

    David Geffen countersues Justin Sun over a $78.4M Giacometti sculpture, alleging fraud and deleted messages after a crypto crash and NFT marketplace misrepresentation. Sun's lawyer calls Geffen's claims "misguided".


    Guggenheim Fellowships: Funding Arts & Humanities

    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 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

    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 Trump’s Tariff Week

    What the World Learned from Donald Trump’s Tariff Week

    Viktor Shvets, a global-market strategist at Macquarie Capital, said, on Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots” podcast, “I keep asking myself, ‘What is this Administration trying to do?’ ” 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

    Why Trump Backed Down on Tariffs

    In an announcement, his publisher described the eighty-seven-year-old’s latest plot as involving a private eye and a missing cheese heiress, as well as “Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them.” It brings to mind what the magazine’s reviewer thought after reading “Gravity’s Rainbow”: “Whew!”


    David Hockney 25 review: an absolutely enormous splash ★★★★

    David Hockney 25 review: an absolutely enormous splash ★★★★

    A gallery of densely salon-hung portraits shows how much Hockney likes to create a world around himself—many 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

    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

    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 “sleepers” as the art trade calls them).


    A brush with Dhyandra Lawson

    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 ‘over-attendance’

    How many visitors is too many? Paris museums confront ‘over-attendance’

    Sylvain Amic, the president of the Établissement public des musĂ©es d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie (the governmental body that oversees both institutions) since April 2024, puts it plainly: “A museum’s mission is to radiate—to make known and to share its collections with the greatest number of people—so there is a contradiction in the idea of needing to limit how many can come.”


    Art Week Riyadh will “bring together the many layers of Saudi Arabia’s art scene”

    Art Week Riyadh will “bring together the many layers of Saudi Arabia’s art scene”

    The inaugural Art Week Riyadh (6–13 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.