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Andy Warhol Museum Launches $60 M. Expansion to Establish ‘Pop District’ in Pittsburgh
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Medieval Castle Discovered Under Hotel in France
via artnews.comDuring the development of a fine arts museum in Vannes, Brittany, in northwestern France, excavations revealed the remains of a medieval castle, according to Heritage Daily. The dig began in the courtyard of an 18th century mansion, the Château Lagorce, which currently operates as a hotel. Researchers from France’s national institute for archeological research learned that the castle was built around 1380 by Jean IV, the Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from -
Morocco Cancels Venice Biennale Pavilion, Men Convicted of Smuggling Sunken Corsican Treasure, Warhol ‘Mao’ Print Missing from College, and More: Morning Links for March 29, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESMOROCCO PAVILION CANCELED. After the surprise, last-minute replacement of Morocco’s exhibitors at what would have been the country’s first Venice Biennale pavilion, Morocco has now fully canceled their participation in the exhibition set to open in April, and it’s unclear why, according to The Art Newspaper . In Januar -
Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art
via theguardian.comGreenham Common inspires a new generation, designer Enzo Mari gets playful and Perth Museum dedicates its first exhibition to a mythical beast prized since antiquity – all in your weekly dispatchUnicorn
Medieval bestiaries, Renaissance art and narwhal horns make for a fascinating first exhibition in this impressive new Scottish museum.
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‘Made to be destroyed’: the unexpected appeal of butter moulding
via theguardian.comFrom cowboy boots to Le Corbusier armchairs, miniature sculptures made of butter are having a moment• Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Easter bunny is waiting in the wings and the hot cross buns are ready to be toasted. But have you moulded your butter into the shape of a Doric or Ionic pillar yet? Thankfully, there is still time.Butter moulds and sculptures are enjoying a moment – the sky’s the limit and butter maestros have shared pict -
Anu Põder Pushed Delicacy to the Brink of Brutality
via artnews.comA version of this essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday.Growing up, Anu Põder wanted to be a ballerina. But her small body failed to conform to the discipline’s impossible standards, so she turned to art, where misfit physiques soon became her primary preoccupation. The feminine forms that resulted—made of mate -
Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations
via artsjournal.comSan Francisco Conservatory of MusicThe Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations (AVP) reports to the Vice President of Advancement (VP) and serves as a member of the Advancement leadership team. The AVP is responsible for leading administrative and financial operations, database use and management, data integrity, software use and management, and development of procedures, protocols, and processes. This position requires a strong commitment to SFCM, unquestioned integrity, a keen sense -
Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance
via artsjournal.comUniversity of California San DiegoPosition overviewPosition title: Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance
Salary range: A reasonable salary range estimate for this position is $88,600-$111,200.
The posted UC Academic salary scales set the minimum pay as determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See the following table for the salary scale for this position here: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/oct-2023-acad-salary-scales/t1-l.pdf. Please refer to the 10/1 -
Kennicott: The Baltimore Bridge And Its Symbolism
via msn.comThe loss of the bridge is first a human tragedy. Then it is an economic shock, with a radiating toll that won’t be fully understood for years. But it’s also a powerful symbolic shock, given the metaphorical power of bridges as a form of connection. – Washington Post (MSN) -
Can There Truly Be “New” Opera Without Saying Goodbye To The Old?
via van-magazine.comIn short: There can be no history of operatic modernity that is not also a memorial, no production of new opera that does not account for generic death, no opera written that does not, in its own way, undertake the work of mourning. – Van -
How The Hulu Merger Is Changing The Ways Disney Works
via theverge.comYes, Hulu is just a tile. But that tile also seems to represent something bigger inside of Disney: the full Disney Plus-ification of everything, as the tech and strategy it built over the last few years percolates out to everything else Disney does. – The Verge -
For Centuries The Dutch Have Fought Back The Water. In Climate Change Maybe Cities Float Above The Water?
via newyorker.com“I think some bowls should be full,” he said, suggesting that flooding the land would amount to little more than a natural evolution of a man-made system, not unlike the way skyscrapers transformed cities a century ago. “It’s just an update to the machine.” – The New Yorker -
It’s Been 35 Years Since The Pacific Symphony Last Picked A Music Director. The World Has Changed
via cultureoc.orgCarl St.Clair is currently the longest-serving music director of a major American orchestra, and under his baton the ensemble has flourished: It’s now the largest U.S. orchestra founded in the last 50 years. – CultureOC -
Standup Comedy Flourished In China During Lockdown. Now The Government Crackdown
via newyorker.comFlippant references to China’s military, like those to top leaders, are considered off limits in official life, and such taboos have been codified under Xi, with a new criminal code outlawing the slander of political “heroes and martyrs.” – The New Yorker -
Gwangju Biennale Names Artists for 2024 Edition, a Show Billed as a ‘Soundscape of the 21st Century’
via artnews.comThe Gwangju Biennale, the most high-profile recurring art festival in Asia, has revealed the artists that will take part in the 2024 show, due to open in the South Korean city on September 7.The exhibition is this time being curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French curator best known for theorizing the relational aesthetics style of the 1990s. As is typical for Bourriaud’s exhibitions, his Gwangju Biennale comes with an ambitious framework that envisions sound as a means of structuring life -
What’s The Secret To The Songs That Make People Want To Dance? Syncopation, Says New Study
But not too much — just “a moderate level of syncopation to the point where our brain can still extract the periodic beat from the melodies. (These researchers) contend that the brain is essentially trying to anticipate upcoming beats amid a melody’s syncopation. The result is the impulse to dance.” – Scientific American -
Ghanaian Photographer Gerard Annan-Forson Comes Into Focus with a US Retrospective
via artnews.comWhen Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana in 1999 on an official visit, the British High Commission called Gerald Annan-Forson about photographing the monarch in a private session. Years beforehand, Annan-Forson had developed a habit of standing before Buckingham Palace with the dream of taking images of the queen or the royal family someday. The Commission’s request came as a surprise.“I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. She’s coming with all these pressmen. Why me?’ -
Ghanaian Photographer Gerald Annan-Forson Comes Into Focus with a US Retrospective
via artnews.comWhen Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana in 1999 on an official visit, the British High Commission called Gerald Annan-Forson about photographing the monarch in a private session. Years beforehand, Annan-Forson had developed a habit of standing before Buckingham Palace with the dream of taking images of the queen or the royal family someday. The Commission’s request came as a surprise.“I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. She’s coming with all these pressmen. Why me?’ -
Christopher Knight: Questions About The Broad Museum Expansion
via latimes.comThe conceit of a vanity museum’s design being dubbed “the veil and the vault,” with a perforated exterior draped over a treasury for a private collection being made public, was always more pretentious than meaningful. It’s good to see it go. – Los Angeles Times -
LA’s Broad Museum Announces Major Expansion
via latimes.comThe Broad on Wednesday announced a $100-million building expansion that will increase gallery space at one of Los Angeles’ most popular museums by 70%. The sweeping plans could provide a critical boost to downtown L.A. – Los Angeles Times -
Following Lawsuit Settlement, Latino Student Internship at Smithsonian Now Open to All Students
via artnews.comThe Latino Museum Studies Program undergraduate internship at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino has been opened to students of all races after the settlement of a lawsuit that said the program amounted to discrimination, CNN reports.The lawsuit was filed in February by the Texas-based American Alliance for Equal Rights against the museum’s director, Jorge Zamanillo, and the director of the Institute of Museum and Library -
Florida’s New Budget Increases Arts & Culture Funding By Over 60%. However, …
“Allocations for fiscal year 2025 total $93.9 million, funding 669 different arts and culture projects or organizations. Just $32 million of that is allocated for grants overseen by the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs, while the rest is earmarked for what are known as member projects.” – Sarasota Herald-Tribune -
Gill Watkiss obituary
via theguardian.comMy mother, Gill Watkiss, who has died aged 85, was an artist whose paintings took their inspiration from the county of Cornwall, where she lived for most of her life.Gill focused on the everyday interaction of Cornish folk with their environment: in churchyards, market squares and parks, by the seaside, or out walking in the countryside. Continue reading... -
Toymakers Design Human Characteristics Into Their Work. And AI?
via newyorker.comLarge language models can seem to do more than what we ask them to; they exhibit something that we might call creativity if a human did it. What is actually happening in these moments? – The New Yorker -
Inigo Philbrick, Art Dealer Who Received a Seven-Year Prison Sentence for Fraud, Is Released Early
via artnews.comInigo Philbrick, the New York dealer who was later sentenced to seven years in prison for a $86 million wire fraud scheme, has been released. He was sentenced in May 2022, making his prison stay a little less than four years—more than three years less than he was initially expected to serve.His release was initially reported on March 1 by the Daily Mail, which cited a source at the Federal Bureau of Prisons; a Vanity Fair article published later that month reported that he had been release -
Māori Postmodern: Indigenous Architects In New Zealand Are Creating A New Style of Design
via theguardian.com“The country’s Māori population now numbers 17% and rising, and the new generation’s enthusiastic embrace of tribal cultural identity is making their presence more visible than ever, … (with) a new wave of Māori architects keen to make their mark. … Māori design principles have even been written into urban planning policy.” – The Guardian -
Art Gallery of Ontario’s Workers Strike, Forcing Museum to Close
via artnews.comHundreds of workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recently went on strike in an effort to obtain higher wages in one of Canada’s most expensive cities. After ten months of bargaining, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) Local 535 officially went on strike on March 26 after rejecting the museum’s latest offer. The union said AGO’s “last” offer failed to provide a livable wage and include protections against contracting out for pa -
London’s Wigmore Hall Announces Endowment Campaign To Eliminate Its Public Funding
via theguardian.comThe venue has an annual grant of £344,206 from Arts Council England (ACE) but John Gilhooly, Wigmore Hall’s artistic and executive director, says that it is “already 97% self-funded”. – The Guardian -
“Merrily We Roll Along” And The Nature(s) Of Long-Term Friendship
via msn.com“Frank’s and Charley’s very different definitions of what constitutes a friend offers an astringent alternative to our culture’s sometimes treacly, overly simplistic portrayal of the bond. Even more than Broadway, Hollywood has fetishized friendship to (a fault).” – Los Angeles Times (MSN) -
Ibrahim Mahama Wins Dia’s Inaugural Sam Gilliam Award
via artnews.comThe Dia Art Foundation in New York has announced that Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has won the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, which comes with $75,000 and a public program at one of Dia’s locations this fall. The Sam Gilliam Award was established last year by the late artist’s foundation and his widow, Annie Gawlak, who serves as president of the foundation. With plans to dole out the prize annually for the next decade, the award will go to “an artist working anywhere in t
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