Hale A. Woodruff, Opening Day at Talladega College (1942) Historical Collection of Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama In a move that may shine light on how museums and institutions could share the responsibility of preserving cultural heritage, Alabama’s Talladega College has entered into a partnership with three art institutions to share six monumental artworks. The alliance—between …
Ayoung Kim. Photo Kanghyuk (snakepool)/Courtesy the artist and Gallery Hyundai Perhaps more than any other artwork made during the 2020s, Ayoung Kim’s video Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2022) captures the dizzying, unsettled quality that characterized so much of the world under Covid-induced lockdown. But this is not a video about isolation or illness, or even a …
The Wexner Center for the Arts Brad Feinknopf On August 25, staff at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University sent a letter of no confidence in the leadership of executive director Gaëtane Verne to university officials, according to Columbus media outlet Matter News. The institution came under scrutiny this fall …
Deformation patterns and intensive rock fractures in the antechamber and burial chamber ceilings of King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Courtesy Sayed Hemeda, Nature The tomb of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamen, located in the Valley of the Kings, has experienced instability and damage from flash flooding and major faults that has worsened over time. One expert outlined methods …
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Andrea Gyorody Courtesy Andrea Gyorody. Photo: Ron Hall. Andrea Gyorody has resigned as director of Pepperdine University’s Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art after the university removed and obscured artworks it deemed “political,” prompting accusations of censorship from artists, students, and faculty. Gyorody confirmed to Hyperallergic that Friday, October 24, was her final day in the role. …
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The Louvre upon its reopening. Photo Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images Fifty-seven curators and museum directors—including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Christophe Cherix and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s Michael Govan—signed an open letter in support of Louvre‘s director Laurence des Cars, following the theft of the museum’s crown jewels …
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, King Alphonso, 1982–83. ©The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/Courtesy Pace Prints The estate of Jean-Michael Basquiat is coming out with a new screenprint to be available from Pace Prints starting November 5. Produced in an edition of 60, the print reproduces a drawing that dates to 1982–83, around five years before the artist’s death …
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Books stacked on a shelf. Photo DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images Seven leading foundations have come together to launch the Literary Arts Fund to distribute $50 million over a five-year span to support nonprofit literary arts across the United States. The Literary Arts Fund will award grants to US-based nonprofits and fiscally sponsored literary organizations …
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Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People, 1830 Wikimedia Commons. There’s perhaps no more stirring an example of political art than Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). Measuring roughly 8½ by 10½ feet, the painting was completed in 1830 to celebrate France’s July Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Bourbon monarch, Charles …
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Naotaka Hiro. Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews Seven years ago, Naotaka Hiro was at the airport in Los Angeles when he received a harrowing text from his wife. “There’s someone underneath the house,” she wrote. “Someone’s coughing.” He abruptly canceled his flight to Japan and rushed home to his panicked spouse. Hiro ventured into the crawlspace beneath …
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