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To receive morning links in your inbox every weekday, sign up with us Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. TITLES THE NEW LEADER OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Nicholas Cullinan A new director has been appointed British Museum In London, after the resignation of the former director Hartwig Fischer, who resigned following a massive theft of the museum’s collection, which the institution believes was perpetrated by its former curator. He is currently the director of Cullinan National Portrait Galleryand in his new role, he will also have to face broad challenges Parthenon marble To Greece, as well as governance problems. Related Articles MUSEUM STRIKES. In news for museum workers, union members are flexing…

A version of this essay appeared earlier Reformulatedhas Art in America A newsletter about the art that amazes us and the works that work on us. Sign up here to be picked up every Thursday. Growing up, Anu Põder wanted to be a dancer. But his small body did not meet the discipline’s impossible standards, so he turned to art, where fit physiques soon became his main concern. The resulting feminine forms—made of fat, surgical plastic, and fashion found materials—make up Estonian artist Anu Põder: Space for My Body, a retrospective at Switzerland’s Muzeum Susch, a picturesque private institution carved into the foothills of a…

Winding through Materials for the Arts’ 35,000-square-foot home is as close as visiting Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. At the beginning of the year, the sprawling warehouse in Queens was filled with Christmas decorations, ornaments, pink evergreens, and lavish soap boxes, along with paper and books, envelopes, archival photos, all kinds of fabric, buttons, beads. , and cut There are also hospital lab coats, Javits Center furniture and vintage typewriters and computer towers, CDs and file folders. Filled with the outcasts of contemporary New York City life waiting to be brought out of the darkness, the list goes on. Most of…

Two men accused of selling more than 2.6 million pounds (about $3.2 million) worth of fake fine art attributed to Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso have been jailed in London. A six-year money laundering investigation by Sussex Police found that Behrad Kazemi and Raj Nasta sold Dalí works for £2,000 to £3,000 and Picasso works for £5,000 to £20,000 between October 2016 and June 2018 to more than 125 victims. The scheme involved cold calls from Asset Consulting Services and a company called Treasury Asset Group and a push to buy artworks instead of traditional investments. Related Articles A Sussex…

Xue Tan, the curator responsible for the renowned programming of the closely watched Hong Kong art center, will meet with the staff of one of Germany’s leading museums. Currently the chief curator of Tai Kwun Contemporary, Tan will be the chief curator of Munich’s Haus der Kunst from this June. It is a very prestigious position, and it was previously held by Emma Enderby, who announced in October that she will be the artistic director of the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin. Tan has overseen Tai Kwun Contemporary’s exhibition program since its opening in 2018. It is one…

Earlier this week, Bravo announced that all six actors had signed up for the reboot The Real Housewives of New York City he would return for the second season (the 15th of the franchise), as reported by him The varietyleading to rumors that the network would add two new members, including one with ties to the art world. Now the rumor is that that cast member could be Racquel Chevremont, the collector and curator who is the ex-partner of artist Mickalene Thomas. Chevremont is also friends with current cast member Jenna Lyons, the former creative director of J. Crew. (Bravo blog Bravo and Cocktails first…

California lawmakers have introduced a bill to give Holocaust survivors and their heirs a better chance to recover artwork stolen or forcibly sold during periods of political oppression. Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), chairman of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, which chaired the legislative session, said. Los Angeles Times Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum was inspired by a ruling this January that decided it could keep a Camille Pissarro painting taken from its Jewish owner by the Nazi party. Related Articles “I immediately felt that this was a great opportunity for me to correct a historical injustice and prevent something like this from happening again,”…

Marian Zazeela, an artist whose abstract drawings and light installations depicted dreamlike states, died at her home in New York on Thursday at the age of 83. The MELA Foundation, the organization he founded with his partner, artist La Monte Young, announced his death on Friday, saying he died of natural causes while sleeping. Zazeela made works that did not fit neatly into the boundaries of any movement, although he flirted with the aesthetics of Minimalism. By his own admission, he produced “borderline art,” his favorite term for works that “challenged the usual distinction between ‘frontiers’ and fine art, using…

During the development of a fine arts museum in Vannes, Brittany, northwestern France, excavations revealed the remains of a medieval castle. Everyday Heritage Château Lagorce, which currently functions as a hotel, was built in the 18th century. The excavation began in the courtyard of a century palace. Researchers from the French National Institute for Archaeological Research found that the castle was built around 1380 by Jean IV, Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from 1345, and 7th Earl of Richmond from 1372. The structure was known as the Château de l’. It was built to assert Hermine and Duke’s authority in…

To receive morning links in your inbox every weekday, sign up with us Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. TITLES MOROCCO PAVILION DOWN THERE. To the surprise of Moroccan exhibitors, after being replaced at the last minute in what would have been the country’s first Venice pavilion, Morocco has completely canceled its participation in the exhibition, which was due to open in April, and it is not clear why, according to reports. Art Newspaper . In January, the artists Safaa Erruas, Majida Khattari and Fatiha Zemmouri, and the curator Mahi Binebine, in what they called a “nightmare”, learned that the artworks they had donated for months…