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Visitors queue in front of the Louvre’s Pyramide. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images While crowds descended on the Château de Versailles, Eiffel Tower Stadium, and other venues during the Paris Olympics to watch sport, the world’s most visited museum emptied out. During the Games, between July 27 and August 11, attendance at the Louvre fell …

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Gamaliel Rodríguez, The tropicalized notion of power , 2022. Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York The Joan Mitchell Foundation has announced the 15 artists chosen for its 2024 fellowships, which come with $60,000 in unrestricted grants over a five-year period. The artists chosen for the fellowship program this year are Scott Anderson, Michaela …

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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), ‘Water Lilies’, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images) To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BAD PROJECTION. The “C-Project” sounds like a shady plan hatched by shady people in a budget sci-fi film. In reality, it’s not …

Holographic Art Goes Mainstream, Monet Water Lily Painting to Make Auction Debut, British Museum Reveals Major Gift of Chinese Art, and More: Morning Links for August 22, 2024 Read More »

Scorch marks left at the front gate of the Jewish Museum in Baltimore. Baltimore Jewish Council A man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson outside the Jewish Museum of Maryland on August 4, Baltimore police announced Saturday. Assadollah Hashemi, 66, was charged with second-degree arson and first-degree attempted malicious burning. According to …

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The British Museum in London. David Liff/License: CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia The British Museum has finished investigating its own conduct and concluded that it broke the law after it discovered last year that thousands of artifacts had disappeared from its collection. The museum confirmed last December that around 2,000 items went missing and its top brass …

British Museum Finds Itself Guilty of Breaking UK Law for Mistreating Collection After 2,000 Items Disappeared Read More »

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 06: The young guests enjoy activities during the God’s Love We Deliver Young Hearts Friends Fest: Valentine’s Party at the Museum of Ice Cream on February 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for God’s Love We Deliver) Getty Images for God’s Love We D …

Man Sues Museum of Ice Cream, Bronx Museum Director Quits, Judge Allows Artists’ Copyright Lawsuit Against AI Companies, and More: Morning Links for August 14, 2024 Read More »

Eva Robarts’ sculpture Fantasy of Happiness (2022) Courtesy, The Armory Show, Ruttkowski;68 The Armory Show announced that they will once again partner with the US Open Tennis Championships to present sculptures and installations on the grounds at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the event.  The partnership is in its third consecutive …

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James Turrell’s Ganzfield Apani (2011) will be installed in a new trailside pavilion within the mountain’s 156 ski runs. COURTESY POWDER MOUNTAIN When Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings purchased Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort in 2023 for an undisclosed sum, the first thing he did was turn it into a private members club. He cordoned off …

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