Visitors at the “Lumen: Helen Pashgian” installation at the Getty Center. Cassia Davis/ © 2024 J. Paul Getty Trust It wasn’t until I walked through the faded-blue door to Helen Pashgian’s Pasadena studio and she told me to put away my recorder and notebook that I understood this would not be a conventional interview. “People …
Ryan Preciado at work in his woodshop studio in South Los Angeles. Photo Joyce Kim for ARTnews A few years ago, Ryan Preciado began frequenting a hardware store less than a mile from his main studio in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Arlington Heights. Slowly, he began befriending the family who runs the shop. When …
Regina José Galindo, Tierra, 2013. Museum of Modern Art, New York In 2013, Regina José Galindo attended the trial of José Efraín Ríos Montt and Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, who spearheaded the Guatemalan coup d’état in 1982 and then led the country until 1983. Ríos Montt and Rodriguez Sanchez spoke of how the army dug …
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Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews Suzanne Kite, who simply goes by Kite, is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and researcher, and one of the few Indigenous artists currently working with AI and machine learning, which she has been using since 2018. She holds an MFA from Bard College, where she also heads up an Indigenous AI …
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the three founders of the Museum of Modern Art, in 1922. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York In the words of Gertrude Stein, “You can be modern or you can be a museum, but you cannot be both.” Her remark captured exactly the contradiction inherent in one of …
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Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony, around 1534. Allentown Museum of Art. A 16th-century portrait attributed to the studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder will leave the collection of the Allentown Museum of Art in Pennsylvania after the work was restituted to the relatives of its original …
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January Parkos Arnall. Photo Maria Ponce Compound, an art and wellness nonprofit in Long Beach, California, has named January Parkos Arnall as its executive director. She begins in the post on September 23. Compound was founded in 2020 by Megan Tagliaferri, a longtime resident of Long Beach, but it closed in 2022 amid a wave …
A general view of the exterior facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, October 18, 2012 in New York City. Getty Images The Guggenheim Museum in New York will hold a mid-career survey next year for Rashid Johnson, an artist who sat on the institution’s board for seven years. He stepped down from the position …
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The California College of the Arts. Wikimedia Commons To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES VACANT HOWSE. The California College of the Arts (CCA) is grappling with a severe financial crisis, facing a $20 million budget deficit amid a sharp decline in student enrollment. The non-profit art institution, …
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County received a grant of $87,867. Photo courtesy of NHMLAC. The National Park Service recently announced $3 million in grants to 13 Tribes and 21 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and …
