Douglas Coupland’s public art installation Tom Thomson’s Canoe (2008) prior to the suspected arson. Photo Tara Walton/Toronto Star via Getty Images A public art installation by Douglas Coupland in Toronto was destoryed by a fire last week, in what local police are calling arson. Coupland’s piece was an homage to one of Canada’s most well-known painters, …
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The White House. Getty Images In the latest legal challenge to the Trump administration from the cultural sector, the largest union of museum and library professionals in the United States has sued to block efforts to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The lawsuit was filed in in the US District Court …
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The restored sculpture by Eric Gill behind protective glass on the exterior of BBC Broadcasting House in London, photographed on April 9. Photo Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images The BBC Broadcasting House in London has restored a sculpture by Eric Gill, an artist associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement who is also known …
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Bernard Arnault. Photo Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images ARTnews Top 200 collectors Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Alice Walton have lost additional billions during the last three trading days after $10 trillion in stock market sell-offs in response to the new “reciprocal” tariffs against all other nations and the increased likelihood of a global recession due to …
Max Kozloff. Bettmann Archive via Getty Images Max Kozloff, a critic who influentially collapsed the divide between art and politics that was erected by formalists who came before him, died on April 6 at 91. His death was announced this week by his wife, the artist Joyce Kozloff. Kozloff made his name during the 1970s …
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A still from the trailer for Giraffes on Horseback Salad, a new film made from Salvador Dali’s unmade screenplay. It was created using Google’s new generative video platform Veo 2. Screenshot/Dali Museum and Goodby Silverstein & Partners In December, Google announced that it would soon launch a new version of its generative video model, Veo …
The National Humanities Medal, 2014. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Some arts and cultural groups across the United States that were previously awarded federal grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have received letters informing them that their funding has been canceled by the Trump administration. Rumors swirled earlier this week that Elon Musk’s Department of …
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Fragment of the tomb of Beltrán de la Cueva, now in the posession of the Cúellar City Council in Spain. Courtesy Cuéllar City Council. In 1904, the Convent of San Francisco in Cuéllar, Spain collapsed, burying more than just stone and mortar. Under the rubble lay a masterpiece of early Spanish Renaissance sculpture—the alabaster funerary …
Daniel Arsham’s 1961 Eroded Ferrari GT at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Photo Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Artist Daniel Arsham is suing the rapper Quavo and his record label Quality Control Music, along with parent company HYBE America, of copyright infringement and a violation of right of publicity. …
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard, 1978. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California will present a retrospective for the late artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha next year, making it …
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