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Orlando Museum Of Art Sues Its Former Director Over Fake Basquiat Scandal

"(The museum) has sued its former director, Aaron De Groft, as well as others who were instrumental in bringing the now disgraced 'Heroes & Monsters' exhibit of work attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat to the institution in 2022." - Orlando Sentinel

National Gallery In London Extends Its First Pay-What-You-Wish Program

While admission to the general collection and some special shows is free, the NG does charge for certain special exhibitions. Last year, amidst the UK's cost-of-living crisis, the museum began a name-your-price scheme on Friday evenings; that has now been extended through January. - FAD Magazine

How A Big Investment Bank (Morgan Stanley) Breaks Down The Art Market

As the fine-art auction market has grown more and more financialized in recent years, it has also grown more and more opaque to nearly everyone except the auction houses. - Artnet

The UK Is In A Cost Of Living Crisis, And The National Gallery Wants To Ease It

The London museum has said its pay-what-you-will scheme will extend for one more major show - Franz Hals. They've done it for two earlier shows, and research shows 20 percent of pay-what-you-will visitors were seeing a special exhibit for the first time. - The Guardian (UK)

Rethinking, And Reordering, The Idea Of ‘American’ Ceramics

At the Met Museum, 68 Pueblo potters and cultural leaders organized a new exhibit. "The objects were all selected by members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective and the labels highlight Pueblo peoples’ voices and perspectives, rather than the traditional museum label style." - The New York Times

Ignore Keith And Mick, For England Has Some Actually Decent Public Sculpture

For instance, there's the Wild Boar, or the Crystal Palace dinosaurs: "Scientifically, they’re wildly inaccurate. But in every other way, they’re perfect: endlessly surprising, vividly alive; an enduring memorial to our Victorian ancestors’ hunger for knowledge." - The Observer (UK)

The Man Who Helped Invent Surrealism

Maurice Tabard, once the assistant to Man Ray, helped discover "many of the techniques that became associated with the movement – solarisation, multiple exposures, the burning of negatives, all of which were designed to bring chance and free association into photographic practice." - The Guardian (UK)

Ukraine Sets Up Database Of Artwork Owned By Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs

Now accessible through the embattled country’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is a new “War & Art” database of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks that have been bought and sold by sanctioned Russians since 2014, when the Russian-Ukrainian war began. - Artnet

The New Yorker Has Chosen Peter Schjeldahl’s Successor As Art Critic

"Jackson Arn has written several pieces for The New Yorker, including reviews of a Georgia O'Keefe show at MOMA and a van Gogh exhibit at the Met. … In addition, Arn also written for Art in America, The Drift, Artforum, and The Nation." - MediaPost

Former Curator Sues Worcester Museum Of Art In Massachusetts For Discrimination

"Rachel Parikh alleges she was 'mocked and ridiculed because she is a brown-skinned South Asian' Indian woman and 'subjected to a hostile and offensive work environment.' She resigned from her job as associate curator of the arts of Asia and the Islamic World last fall." - WBUR (Boston)

Barnes Foundation May Lend Artworks To Other Museums, Says Court

The local court with jurisdiction over the will of museum founder Albert Barnes ruled that the Foundation may loan a limited number of works to other institutions and may make some changes to the arrangement of works on display, both forbidden by Barnes's original 1922 indenture. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

At 850 Years Old, The Leaning Tower Of Pisa is More Stable Than Ever

Subsidence became a problem not long after construction began in the 12th century, and by the early 1990s the tilt had worsened enough that experts feared the structure's eventual collapse. An eight-year stabilization project and ongoing careful monitoring have made the tower safe. - CNN

This Artist Has 30 Million TikTok Followers. Can He Now Make It In The Art World?

With over 30 million followers on TikTok alone, Rodriguez has developed a following that has even extended to the outside world. Considered merely by follower count, he would be the most recognizable artist in the world. - ARTnews

Guggenheim Museum Staffers Have Their First-Ever Union Contract

"The two-and-a-half-year contract is retroactive to July 1 and includes a minimum salary increase of nine percent, starting with three percent now and again at the start of 2024 and 2025 (this is in addition to the three percent increase the staff received in January)." - Artnet

Istanbul’s Flashy New International Museum Masks Erdogan’s Contempt For Artists

In a cruel twist, Istanbul Modern and Turkish art is all too easily recruited as an aid to Erdoğan’s ambitions on the world stage. The building itself, with its Italian “starchitect” pedigree, effortlessly puts it at the service of a homogeneously Eurocentric narrative. - The New European

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