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 …
Artworks by Mo Kong. Works by Tianyi Sun-Fiel Guhit and Mo Kong; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews To speak in the same breath of artificial intelligence and Asians, who have long been coded in popular culture as task-driven robots and emotionless cyborgs, risks belaboring the stereotype or, at best, rehashing well-worn critiques of techno-orientalism. …
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Gavin Jantjes. Photo Angela Musil/Courtesy the artist “I wish I knew how it would feel to be free,” croons Nina Simone on a 1967 song of the same name. “I wish I could break all the chains holding me, I wish I could say all the things I should say.” These lyrics made the song …
Installation view of “Willem de Kooning and Italy,” 2024, at Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy. Photo Matteo de Fina, 2024/© 2024 The Willem de Kooning Foundation, SIAE Though best known as one of the leading proponents of Abstract Expressionism, Willem de Kooning, whose geometric and biomorphic shapes of the 1930s and ’40s gave way to his …
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Smoke billows from the roof of Somerset House on the bank of the River Thames. AFP via Getty Images More than 100 firefighters and 15 fire engines were called to tackle a blaze at Somerset House in central London on Saturday. The Georgian-era complex, which was built on the site of a palace dating back …
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