Brett Littman will be the next director of the MCA San Diego. Photo Don Stahl The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that its next director and chief executive will be Brett Littman. He will begin in the role in October. The fifth director in the institution’s 85-year history, Littman succeeds Kathryn Kanjo, …
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MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. Photo Noel Woodford/Courtesy MoMA PS1 The restaurant space at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, will soon have a new tenant: Symone, by chef DeVonn Francis, will open in early October. The space’s menu will also be previewed during Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, running September 24–27. …
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Norval Morrisseau in a photo from 1977. Graham Bezant/Toronto Star via Getty Images New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers’ years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud …
“Olalekan Jeyifous: Hydricosmic Litanies,” at the Walker Art Center. Photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center and the artist Olalekan Jeyifous are refuting accusations by some museum visitors that his work was made using generative AI, reports MPR News. Jeyifous, born in Nigeria and living in New York, is …
Bronze relics found near the town of Marzabotto. Courtesy Marzabotto National Etruscan Museum Archaeologists working in northern Italy excavated “remarkably well-preserved” bronze artifacts from a well dating back to the ancient Etruscan city of Kainua. As reported by Heritage Daily, “Bronze figures buried at the bottom of an ancient well for nearly two and a …
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. F. M. Kearney/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Some of New York’s most prominent cultural institutions reportedly are getting off the hook on paying fines for fire code violations. Gothamistreports that the city is not collecting fines from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum …
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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Getty Images Minneapolis police have identified one of two people they believe stole roughly $80,000 worth of artwork from the studio of 80-year-old artist Leon Hushcha, in a burglary that involved a UPS vest, a handcart, and, apparently, another artist. Ricardo Andres Bassat, 56, has been charged with felony burglary and is due …
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The eight Matisse “Jazz” prints displayed at Mario de Andrade Public Library in São Paulo after their recent recovery. Photo by Nelson Almeida / AFP via Getty Images Brazilian authorities have recovered eight prints from Henri Matisse’s iconic “Jazz” series (1947), the New York Times reports. Two armed men stole the works on December …
At top left is an image generated by a model trained on public domain artwork created by 744 artists. The others are a sampling of images that would have been generated had any one of the 744 artists been omitted from the training set. Courtesy of Zheng Dai and David K. Gifford. A new study …
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Garbage at 12th Street and Avenue B. Bettmann/Getty Images Gagosian sent out a decidedly sparse press release about Jordan Wolfson’s first show with the gallery in New York, set to open September 18 at its 555 West 24th Street space in Chelsea. The description of the new work to be shown reads, in its entirety: …
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