PST, as it is known, began in 2011 with the theme of Southern California art history and was reprised in 2017 to focus on Latino and Latin American art. The events will now take place every five years under a new rubric: “PST Art.” - The New York Times
The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), in the city's wealthy and artsy Palermo neighborhood, opened during Argentina's 2001 currency crisis but has survived and thrived — and is now expanding into a second site, due to open next year in the city's northern exurbs. - The Art Newspaper
"The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the (Benjamin Franklin) Parkway in Philadelphia, is now exhibiting art again. St. Joseph's University has completed extensive renovations to the building which (has opened) as the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum." - WHYY (Philadelphia)
"The Foreign Office was dismissive of the British Museum's efforts to retain the Parthenon Marbles in 1983. The question of where the marbles should reside came to the forefront when Greek culture minister Melina Mercouri famously visited London that year." - ARTnews
"Ngaire Blankenberg, a museum and cultural consultant who took up the post in July 2021, left the museum at the end of March, a spokeswoman for the Smithsonian confirmed. While the institution declined to discuss personnel matters, sources have (said) that Blankenberg was pushed to resign." - The Art Newspaper
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... announced a major new effort ... toward returning items it finds to have problematic histories. The core feature of the new plan is to hire a provenance research team that is as robust as any in place at an American museum." - The New York Times
Connie Butler, currently chief curator at the Hammer, is to assume her new position at the museum in Long Island City, Queens, on Sept. 26. - The New York Times
The trilith was discovered at the Zufar site and dates back 2,000 years. Triliths are made up of three flat standing stones 50 to 80 centimeters tall that together create a pyramid and are typically found in clusters, as was the case in Zufar. - Artnet
For a long time, people believed that colours were objective, physical properties of objects or of the light that bounced off them. But this theory isn’t really true. - The Guardian
The two oval-shaped murals, nearly eight feet tall, are part of a set of eight painted by artist Winold Reiss in the 1930s for a Longchamps restaurant on the ground floor of the skyscraper. They were lost when the eatery was remodeled in the 1960s. - The New York Times
A visitor described as an "elderly person" vandalized Miriam Cahn's painting fuck abstraction!, which the artist and museum say is a response to human rights abuses by Russian troops in Ukraine but which conservative politicians and activists say promotes pedophilia. Cahn has decided to let the purple paint remain. - ARTnews
My research often focuses on how art and politics have intersected during the past few decades. With a whirlwind 40-year socio-political history this lens can be applied to the prize. - The Conversation
"Might they not unite over what they have in common? They all want sustainable communities and good design. Architects and the monarch also have a shared enemy: the sacrifice of positive architectural qualities to housebuilders’ pursuit of profit." - The Observer (UK)
Jenna Segal is intent on buying art by women from Peggy Guggenheim's 1943 Exhibition of 31 Women. That show contained "names that would later be etched into history," including Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Meret Oppenheim. - The New York Times
"The concept was inspired by the banyan trees that guard the entrance to many villages in Guangdong, where many early Chinese immigrants to Los Angeles originated. Except these trees will not be living. Instead, they will be fabricated in a petrified state." - Los Angeles Times
