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Pepperdine Museum Director Resigns Amid Censorship Controversy

Andrea Gyorody Courtesy Andrea Gyorody. Photo: Ron Hall. Andrea Gyorody has resigned as director of Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art after the university removed and obscured artworks it deemed “political,” prompting accusations of censorship from artists, students, and faculty. Gyorody confirmed to Hyperallergic that Friday, October 24, was her final day in the role. …

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Museum Leaders Support Louvre Director Laurence des Cars in Open Letter

The Louvre upon its reopening. Photo Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images Fifty-seven curators and museum directors—including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Christophe Cherix and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s Michael Govan—signed an open letter in support of Louvre‘s director Laurence des Cars, following the theft of the museum’s crown jewels …

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Basquiat Estate Releases New Print in Edition of 60, Signed by the Artist’s Sisters

Jean-Michel Basquiat, King Alphonso, 1982–83. ©The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/Courtesy Pace Prints The estate of Jean-Michael Basquiat is coming out with a new screenprint to be available from Pace Prints starting November 5. Produced in an edition of 60, the print reproduces a drawing that dates to 1982–83, around five years before the artist’s death …

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Seven Leading Foundations Launch $50 M. Literary Arts Fund

Books stacked on a shelf. Photo DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images Seven leading foundations have come together to launch the Literary Arts Fund to distribute $50 million over a five-year span to support nonprofit literary arts across the United States. The Literary Arts Fund will award grants to US-based nonprofits and fiscally sponsored literary organizations …

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Is Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People a Painting for Our Times?

Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Wikimedia Commons. There’s perhaps no more stirring an example of political art than Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). Measuring roughly 8½ by 10½ feet, the painting was completed in 1830 to celebrate France’s July Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Bourbon monarch, Charles …

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Naotaka Hiro Pushes His Body to Its Limits Using Abstract Painting

Naotaka Hiro. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews Seven years ago, Naotaka Hiro was at the airport in Los Angeles when he received a harrowing text from his wife. “There’s someone underneath the house,” she wrote. “Someone’s coughing.” He abruptly canceled his flight to Japan and rushed home to his panicked spouse. Hiro ventured into the crawlspace beneath …

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‘Creativity is the Enemy’: Tom Sachs on Relinquishing His Identity, the Pursuit of Perfection, and Hard Graft

“Creativity is about sticking with your guns and spending a lot of time at the table,” Sachs said. Mario Sorrenti Earlier this month, during Frieze Week, Tom Sachs was dishing out espressos and 86-proof mezcal from behind a bar at Thaddaeus Ropac’s London outpost on Dover Street. The American artist was launching his new show, …

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Canal Projects, Cutting-Edge New York Art Space, to Close After Four Years

Canal Projects. Courtesy Canal Projects Canal Projects, a New York art space that mounted shows for celebrated artists such as Karimah Ashadu, Sin Wai Kin, and Candice Lin, will shutter next year after just four years in operation. The nonprofit space announced on Wednesday that it would close its physical space on May 23, 2026, …

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Paris’s Fondation Cartier Makes Its Grand Return in a Former Department Store

The opening exhibition of the new Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain features works by Alessandro Mendini and Bodys Isek Kingelez. ©Marc Domage Paris Art Week is filled with vibrant events, the flashiest of which will, of course, be Art Basel Paris. Equally attention-grabbing in its own way is an event of a different sort: the …

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