Nicholas Cullinan: “Physically, our masterplan is a huge project. But intellectually, too, it’s an enormous challenge. Yes, fixing the roof is urgent. But if you’re going to address those physical problems you should also do something exciting with the collections and the way we present them to the public.” - The Times (UK)
Joyce Kozloff’s homage to New England arts “features hundreds of interlocking hand-painted tiles containing scenes from New England’s landscape and motifs referencing the region’s history, like gravestones, weathervanes, sail boats, houses with steeply pitched roofs, and silhouettes of Indigenous individuals and European settlers.” - Hyperallergic
“Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens of museums across Ukraine’s frontline – packing, recording, logging and counting each item and sending them to secret, secure locations away from the combat zone." - The Guardian (UK)
One thing which these reporters seem confident of is that the Museum of Modern Art's next boss is unlikely to be a white man. Here's a look at five probable candidates. - ARTnews
In an excerpt from his new book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Sebastian Smee writes about the partnership, both romantic and artistic, between the great Impressionist painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. - The Washington Post (MSN)
"Visitors to Carcassonne in south-western France will be able to walk a full 1.3 km circuit of its upper ramparts — the first time this has been possible in centuries. The route has been opened up thanks to a 31-month, €5.6m restoration programme by the national heritage agency." - The Art Newspaper
Today’s Instagrammer no longer chooses one representative photo at a time, creating a grid of images just so; instead, users, especially those belonging to Gen Z, are putting up faux-messy but actually carefully selected compendia showcasing the detritus of their lives. - The New Yorker
Does introducing a new logo in vibrant colors across various forms of signage, digital campaigns and merchandise equate to a brand reset? Perhaps not when the “new” design is eerily reminiscent of the 1972 Massimo Vignelli Bloomingdale’s logo, which also features the signature double ‘o’ ligature. - ARTnews
The group Just Stop Oil, which started the practice of vandalizing artworks in the name of stopping climate change when two students threw tomato soup at van Gogh's Sunflowers, had repeatedly blocked fossil fuel sites without the media or public noticing. Well, they've noticed now, for better or worse. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
On Sunday, September 8, at least 60 people including former workers and supporters protested outside the Queens institution and handed out flyers to inform visitors of the ban, which has been billed by museum leadership as a dress code update prohibiting “political dress” that could make visitors feel “unsafe” or “uncomfortable.” - Hyperallergic
"The funds — which amount to the single largest naming gift the museum has ever received — come from longtime art collectors Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed. The new building, which will bear their name, will … showcase modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries." - WBEZ (Chicago)
"He has held the top post since 1995. When it was revealed in 2018 that he planned to continue through 2025, (when his contract ends,) the museum parted with one of its cardinal rules: that 'chief curators and other senior managers' retire at age 65." (Lowry is now 69.) - ARTnews
“We saw museums leaning into reactionary methods: colleagues doing token hires, museums using artists as cover, and others being ousted from museum associations. There was no desire to look at root causes and issues. There was a vast delta between what the workers were saying and the approach of those at the administrative level.” - ARTnews
The new home for the museum's permanent collection, designed by starchitect Peter Zumthor and named the David Geffen Galleries, was initially scheduled to open in 2023 but has suffered several delays. LACMA's permanent collection has been in storage since 2019. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
