"It took Zagar nine years to complete the 7,000-square-foot mosaic in the 1990s that defined his eclectic style. But today, after five years of fighting to save it, preservationists only have weeks to salvage as many one-of-a-kind tiles as they can." - Hyperallergic
"Practised for centuries in the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, ... seed work began among enslaved African women forcibly brought to the islands" - and there are less than a handful of artists working now. - The Guardian (UK)
Since coming to power last fall, Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her party the Fratelli d’Italia have been installing right-leaning candidates into leadership positions in the culture sector. - Artnet
The rooftop viewing gallery was designed to give panoramic views of the city, and it opened in 2016. It quickly became the subject of controversy after visitors began peering into the glass-walled, luxury apartments opposite and, in some cases, taking invasive snaps for Instagram. - Artnet
"The (Garisenda Tower in Bologna) already leans at an angle of four degrees — only slightly less than the renowned five-degree tilt of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Now, the detection of ‘anomalous oscillations’ has prompted road closures around the structure to allow for detailed monitoring of potential instability." - Euronews
"A week after Artforum published a widely criticized open letter calling for Palestinian liberation that didn’t mention the Hamas attacks on Israel, editor-in-chief David Velasco has been fired" by the magazine's owners, Penske Media. - TheWrap
"The Museu de l’Art Prohibit … aims to explain how censorship works by exhibiting artworks that have been subject to prohibitions (successful or merely attempted), and detailed documentation on how and why administrations, religious or cultural authorities have sought to curtail artistic expression." - MSN (The Telegraph)
Jill Medvedow, who in 1998 took over a small museum in a former police station with 20,000 visitors a year and turned it into a major institution in a new 65,000-square-foot building with 300,000 visitors a year, will step down at the end of 2024. - MSN (The Boston Globe)
The reasons for the stepchild status of criticism are as manifold as are their concatenations, not the least of which is the problem of identifying a shared idea or point of orientation when it comes to the practice. - Eurozine
Without getting overly nostalgic, it is almost impossible not to notice that the country, which for a good two decades on either side of the millennium produced some of the most striking, innovative and experimental architecture in the world, is now building a lot of boxes. - Dezeen
Itumbaha, one of the oldest monasteries in Kathmandu, has not only received statues returned from the Rubin Museum and the Met. The Rubin is helping Itumbaha to catalog hundreds of items that have languished in storage there and to open a museum for them on the monastery's grounds. - CNN
The redundancies, along with closing the museum to the public on Tuesdays as well as Mondays, come as the DMA plans over $200 million in capital projects, including a major building expansion as well as major upgrades to security, electrical, HVAC, and fire suppression systems. - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
Devon Rodriguez, known for his live drawings of subway riders, has millions of fans on Instagram and TikTok. Ben Davis reviewed Rodriguez's first solo show (whose opening was covered by CNN), and Rodriguez sicced his fans on Davis — who says this all "raises some larger issues worth thinking about." - Artnet
The lawsuit comes two months after a New York judge issued a search warrant citing “reasonable cause” to believe the statue, which was legally acquired by the museum almost four decades ago, was stolen property. - CNN
