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When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana on an official visit in 1999, the British High Commission called in Gerald Annan-Forson for a private photo session with the monarch. A few years earlier, Annan-Forson had made a habit of standing in front of Buckingham Palace with the dream of one day taking pictures of the Queen or the royal family. The commission’s request was surprising. “I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. He’s coming with all these reporters. Why me?’” he recounted, talking to ARTnews In a recent interview from Accra, the capital of the West African country. “They said, ‘Well, we’ve been…

When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana on an official visit in 1999, the British High Commission called in Gerald Annan-Forson for a private photo session with the monarch. A few years earlier, Annan-Forson had made a habit of standing in front of Buckingham Palace with the dream of one day taking pictures of the Queen or the royal family. The commission’s request was surprising. “I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. He’s coming with all these reporters. Why me?’” he recounted, talking to ARTnews In a recent interview from Accra, the capital of the West African country. “They said, ‘Well, we’ve been…

Undergraduate internships at the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian’s National Latino American Museum have been opened to students of all races, following the settlement of a lawsuit that said the program was discriminatory. CNN the reports The suit was filed in February by the Texas-based United States Alliance for Equal Rights against the museum’s director, Jorge Zamanillo, and Crosby Kemper, director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The lawsuit said the program had not hired any non-Latino interns since it began operating in 2022. Related Articles “When the alliance sued,” the American Alliance for Equal Rights said…

Hundreds of workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recently went on strike in one of Canada’s most expensive cities in an effort to get higher wages. After ten months of negotiations, members of Local 535 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) officially went on strike on March 26 after the museum’s latest offer was rejected. The union said the AGO’s “final” offer did not offer livable wages and included protections against hiring part-time workers, who make up 60 percent of the museum’s workforce. Related Articles Events co-ordinator Mark Thornberry has worked at the museum for 15…

Mary Boone, the famous New York saleswoman who went to prison for tax fraud, is the subject of a new Vampire Weekend song that shares her name. But the song is less an ode to his gallery, which has boosted the profiles of artists ranging from Barbara Kruger to Ai Weiwei, than an elegy to a New York era. The single, released this Thursday, only abstractly references Boone’s business and the subsequent scandal surrounding his personal finances, using his name primarily within a rhyming scheme. “Mary Boone, Mary Boone,” Vampire Weekend director Ezra Koenig can be heard chanting at various…

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…