After an eye-popping NFT sale for the Uffizi turned out to net the museum only €70,000, far less than half of the sale, the government worries that its museums will forever lose control over Italy's culture in digital environments. - Artnet
The Museum of London - whose collection and attitude are absolute gems - has been squeezed into "an eccentric building" for years. Now "in a five-month blowout, the museum will host a packed programme of events" before moving to a new, larger home. - The Guardian (UK)
"In a quiet corner of the bohemian district of San Frediano, hidden behind an 18th-century iron gate that opens onto a whimsical wisteria-covered alleyway, lies a Florentine cultural treasure: the Antico Setificio Fiorentino." - The New York Times
Hirst's A Hundred Years, a glass cube in which flies hatch on one side and then fly into a bug zapper on the other, was removed from an exhibition at a German museum — whose director said, "We thought that flies were not covered by the Animal Welfare Act." - Artnet
Skywhale and her companion, Skywhalepapa, were to appear at an event in Ballarat, a historic town 72 miles WNW of Melbourne that's notorious for unpredictable and turbulent weather. Winds put a three-foot gash in Skywhale's underside, and she's gone back to the National Gallery of Australia for repair. - The Guardian
Mercedes Dorame's work, "in quiet ways, illuminates how Indigenous life and thought remain present in Los Angeles and its landscapes." - Los Angeles Times
"The Civic Center will now be the permanent home of Wright’s smallest structure, a doghouse he drew on the back of an envelope at the request of 12-year-old Jim Berger so the family could accommodate their new golden retriever in style." - Hyperallergic
Artists might more normally be working in the studio, but "though artist-as-intersectional-avatar is not an unusual circumstance, the curators’ efforts go above and beyond what typically occurs in an arts and activism role." - Hyperallergic
"When seeds of this amazing plant first made their way to Victorian England from South America, they sparked off a race among the British aristocracy as to who could be the first to get one to flower." But there was no space big enough. - The Guardian (UK)
Documenta apparently told the group to rely on a private security firm and German police, both of which organizations proved, the artists say, to be not just unhelpful but damaging to artist and attendee safety. - Hyperallergic
Thomas Woodruff traded his career as an art professor for a full-time career as an artist. Like others who experienced the Great Resignation, he's found it freeing, even exhilirating. - The New York Times
While it might share a name with the historic Forbidden City institution, the $450 million Hong Kong museum is far from being a mere satellite branch of the Palace Museum in Beijing, which houses China’s Imperial Collection. - Artnet
hat about the ways the museums are using the money they already have: Are they using it to effect positive change in the world—or are they adding to its problems? This is the question being asked by Upstart Co-Lab, a New York-based nonprofit advocating for impact investing. - Artnet
