A late Bronze Age stone head depicting Anat, the ancient Canaanite goddess of love and war (and the sister of Baal), was discovered by a farmer in the southern Gaza Strip. - BBC
"The first heritage task force of its kind, the Blue Helmets includes officers from Italy's specialist police force for art crime, and ... art historians and restorers. Its main tasks include assessing damage to heritage, planning conservation, and preventing looting and trafficking after terrorist attacks or natural disasters." - The Art Newspaper
Yikes, says Rowan Moore: "The proposed building is, not to put too fine a point on it, a brute. ... It is out of scale with its surroundings and disconnected from them." - The Guardian UK)
Tamara Lanier is fighting "to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her ancestors from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University," where they'd been since Louis Agassiz commissioned the photos in the 19th century "to 'prove' his white supremacist ideas about race." - Hyperallergic
Yes, the reclaiming started in the 1960s. But "today's new cohort of designers is going a step further – not just questioning western dress forms, but searching for and breathing new life into lost aesthetics, craft and processes." - The Observer (UK)
Yeah, never a good sign: "The city gave up its customary percent for art ordinance as part of its contract with the property’s developer, Hollywood Park." And now, as the developer seems to refuse to move forward with artists' projects? There's little recourse. - Los Angeles Times
Boyce is the first Black woman to represent the UK at the Biennale. The jury "commended Boyce for raising 'important questions of rehearsal' as opposed to perfectly tuned music" in her piece Feeling Her Way, which combines music, sculpture, collage, and video. - The Guardian (UK)
Kinder Album says, "Now I need to draw, I don’t have time to think, I need to express the feelings of the moment, because tomorrow something else will happen. Before the war, I had a lot of time. Now I don’t." - The Guardian (UK)
While the cool contemporary art crowd strolled among the exhibits, Ukraine was being pummeled by missiles, and there was hardly a Russian in sight. But curators, collectors, dealers and artists were staging plenty of events to support Ukraine, and a passionate personal address by Ukraine’s president. - The New York Times
"A group of ancient Roman mosaics dating from the second century CE were hidden under the city streets of Stari Grad, on the idyllic Hvar Island in Croatia. Archaeologists discovered the stunning mosaic floors in February, before the city began construction on sewage and water pipes." - Hyperallergic
Because the museum refused to voluntarily recognize UPAT Local 116, the SAM Visitor Service Officers have decided to go independent — this time including only the security department to avoid legal headaches. The union would include up to 60 museum guards and VSO workers. - Hyperallergic
Reports of the removal of the works fueled speculation that M+, a multibillion-dollar project billed as a cultural bridge between China and the West, would fall short of its global ambitions. - ARTnews
The late Brazilian modernist designed this public pavilion/art gallery at the Château La Coste winery near Aix-en-Provence in 2010, when he was 102. (He died two years later.) While the building has the signature Niemeyer characteristics (it's white and curvy), it's somewhat subdued by his standards. - Dezeen
