“The Gallery has been focused on bringing our IT systems back online,” the email read. “The Gallery has continued to be open to the public and our on-site membership, ticketing and Boutique systems are now functional.” - Ottawa Citizen
Last summer, Emmanuel Christian Center bought a 1901 church so dilapidated that the pastor decided on a gut renovation and sold all the furnishings to an architectural salvager. He took the windows to the city's Freeman Auction House to be assessed — and got quite a surprise. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
“Lacking regulation, the construction spurt has been like sprinting blindfolded, outstripping public consensus and leading to a breakdown in cultural thought and design.” - Bloomberg
"Although the museum previously announced a long-term shuttering, it was expected to begin this year and last only through 2027. ... During the closure, the Centre Pompidou will focus its efforts on planned satellites in Brussels and Jersey City, which are now slated to open in 2025 and 2026, respectively." - ARTnews
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
