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Design for New National Museum of Ecuador Prompts Petition Calling for Reconsideration
6+ hour, 34+ min ago (323+ words) The winning design for a few National Museum of Ecuador met with an online petition calling for reconsideration. The winning design for a new National Museum of Ecuador (MuNA) in Quito has met with criticism among detractors who deride its…...
London’s National Gallery Acquires Major Angelica Kauffman History Painting
1+ week, 4+ day ago (347+ words) The National Gallery in London has acquired Angelica Kauffman's Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1787–88). The National Gallery in London announced that it has acquired a significant history painting by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman The work is now on…...
Collector and Patron Flavia Nespatti to Open Commercial Art Space in London
1+ week, 5+ day ago (256+ words) The Brazilian-born, London-based art collector and patron Flavia Nespatti will open a commercial gallery in London this October, reports the Art Newspaper. Located in a mid-century industrial building in the central London neighborhood of Fitzrovia, Antesala will focus on art…...
At the Reykjavík Arts Festival, Poetic Perfumes Mingle with Björk and Much More
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1323+ words) At the Reykjavík Arts Festival, special scents mingled with art by Björk, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and much more. Executive Editor, ARTnews & Art in America All arts festivals abound in sights and sounds, but the Reykjavík Arts Festival invested in a sense…...
Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (533+ words) Named for a nearby natural spring, Crystal Bridges brings world-class American art to a rural area far from the nation’s art capitals. (Bentonville’s population was about 35,000 in 2011; by last year it had grown to about 63,000.) In many ways they’ve certainly…...
Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump’s Controversial Triumphal Arch Celebrating ‘Greatness, Freedom, and Posterity’
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (287+ words) The Commission of Fine Arts, stacked with Trump appointees, approved the President's controversial proposal for a triumphal arch in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Parisâs Arc de Triomphe, at a…...
Chanel Renews Financial Support of Centre Pompidou During Long-Term Renovation
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (171+ words) In 2024, the luxury brand sponsored the museum’s acquisition of a cache of 21 artworks by 15 contemporary Chinese artists. The Pompidou and Chanel began working together in 2019, and in 2024 the luxury brand sponsored the museum’s acquisition of a cache of 21 artworks by…...
Sotheby’s Launches Museum Partnership Series, Starting with Exhibition by New York’s Hispanic Society Museum & Library
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (259+ words) When Sotheby’s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby’s is leaning into that…...
One Erased Vermeer, Two Books, and No Consensus
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (790+ words) A review of both Ruth Bernard Yeazell’s Vermeer’s Afterlives and Andrew Graham-Dixon's Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found. Senior Editor, Art in America A room sits empty, save for a lone chair and a shaft of golden light. Yet in…...
An Installation at the British Museum Recreates the Bayeux Tapestry’s Landscape
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (303+ words) A planting scheme by garden designer Andy Sturgeon will evoke a woodland like the one depicted in the 1000-year-old embroidery In the run-up to the British Museumâs historic presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the institution will open âTapestry…...