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Kirsha Kaechele’s Ladies Lounge at Mona, Australia before the works were moved in to the women’s restroom. COURTESY MONA Following the successful reversal of a Tasmanian court case, a women-only art installation will reopen at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart, Australia. Artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele’s work, titled Ladies Lounge, made headlines when Jason Lau …

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The location and meaning of Banksy’s new mural is not yet known. via Instagram On December 16, British street artist Banksy posted on Instagram an artwork referencing the Madonna and Child, stirring speculation to its meaning. The painting on a metal panel in an unknown location shows the woman’s breast with a rusting hole for …

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KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Courtesy KW Institute for Contemporary Art Four high-profile contemporary art institutions in Berlin bitterly denounced plans by the city’s Senate to dramatically slash the budget next year for arts funding, a lifeline for many museums and artists based in the German capital. The Senate voted to cut that budget by …

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A crowd gathers outside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris to watch its reopening ceremony on Saturday on a giant screen on the banks of the River Seine. Photo Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett In April 2019, Parisians saw Notre-Dame de Paris, one of their most emblematic monuments and one of the world’s most elaborate examples …

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Zoé Whitley. Photo Daryll Borja Zoé Whitley will leave her post as director of the Chisenhale Gallery, a London art space with a record of spinning venturesome emerging artists into bona fide stars. Whitley’s last day there will be March 1, 2025. The Chisenhale Gallery’s announcement of her departure did not state her next steps. …

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The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Wikimedia Commons The US Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would develop a plan to transfer the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia to the Smithsonian Institution. The unanimous vote follows the passing of a companion bill by the House of …

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Protestors from the South Florida Coalition for Palestine demonstrate for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty Ima A coalition of Miami-based advocacy groups staged a protest outside of the Miami Beach Convention Center on the second public day of Art …

Activists Stage Protest Calling on Attendees to Boycott Art Basel Until Miami Divests from Israel Read More »

Samia Osseiran Junblatt, Sunset, 1968. Photo Matteo de Mayda/Courtesy Venice Biennale Samia Osseiran Junblatt, a leading Lebanese artist who took up painting as a way of responding to events from her personal life, has died at 80. The Beirut-based Dalloul Art Foundation, which lent a work by her to the just-closed Venice Biennale, posted news …

Samia Osseiran Junblatt, Lebanese Painter Who Recently Made Her Venice Biennale Debut, Dies at 80 Read More »

The anonymous gift will enable free admission for kids 12 and under. Photo by Front Room Studios, Courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) will now be free for kids age 12 and under through an anonymous gift of $3.54 million. The gift will enable the museum to establish a endowment …

Anonymous Donor Gifts $3.54 M. to Milwaukee Art Museum to Make Admission Free for Kids Read More »

A sign held up by a member of SAM VSO during a strike in December. Photo: Margot Pasky. Courtesy SAM VSO The Seattle Art Museum‘s union remains on strike one week after the workers began their stoppage. In a statement, the union claimed that the institution has been “bargaining in bad faith” during the negotiations …

Seattle Art Museum Workers Allege Union Busting Amid Ongoing Strike Read More »