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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.
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?
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
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.
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".
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).
Belgian film-maker Johan Grimonprez exposes how the Eisenhower administration manipulated jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong to distract from the murder of Lumumba.
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
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.
Among the many sources and narratives running through this multi-stranded show are James Lovelockâs Gaia theory, which posits that Earth and its biological systems behave as a huge single entity, and Charles Eltonâs 1958 study The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants.
Dmitry and his family are also in London, and the company cut its last ties with Russia in October 2022, shutting its offices and relocating hundreds of staff as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
Youâre with her throughout the process: when she finds a postcard from another woman addressed to her husband, when he initiates a divorce, when they go to couples counselling (because thereâs a big part of Smith that wants to fix the relationship), when she has a difficult conversation with her kids about the situation, and when she finally decides to prioritize her happiness.