The sculpture, a giant black and yellow polka-dotted pumpkin by the celebrated artist Yayoi Kusama, has stood at the end of a pier on the “art island” of Naoshima in the Seto inland sea since 1994. - The Guardian
The three guys who brought Maastricht's TEFAF to New York are turning the Madison Avenue building into Art House, which will host exhibitions and rent space, short- or long-term, to small and midsize dealers based outside New York. - ARTnews
According to a report on Monday, the museum dedicated to the career of Robert Craig Knievel, who became known for his death-defying stunts and tricks on motorbikes, will move to the Las Vegas Arts District. - KVVU (Las Vegas)
MGM Resorts collected the 11 works for sale and, for a time, had had them on display at the Bellagio resort. The company says it's deaccessioning them in order to expand its art collection, "giving a greater voice to artists from under-represented communities." - Artnet
Says the former director of Tate Modern, now at Paris's Grand Palais, "We probably cannot afford to ship works back and forth, and will have to think of … how a museum can do more for a local community instead of catering to economic models for tourists." - Artnet
Jason Harrington, 38, fabricated paintings which he sold as work by the late artists Barkley Hendricks and Richard Hambleton (aka Shadowman) for a total of $1.1 million, money he must now repay. He faces up to 20 years in prison. - Artnet
"Illuminate Coral Gables," an outdoor exhibition of light art that launched only this past winter, has imploded after the Miami-area city's mayor accused two of the artists in next year's show of being communist sympathizers. (Yes, the mayor is Cuban-American.) - Artnet
Back in the day, "when it launched in 2010, Instagram courted the artistic community, inviting respected designers to be among its initial users and naming its very first filter X-Pro II, after an analogue photo-developing technique." Then Facebook bought it. - The Observer (UK)
Leni Riefenstahl, Andy Warhol, the Black Power salute, and this year's floating heads - there's a long history of, and often a large budget for, art at the Olympics, whether an audience cares or not. - FastCompany
The road through the park has been closed since the start of the pandemic - and so have the museums. But now, as museums reopen? The closure to cars "has become a flash point." - The New York Times
"Just after the sun came up on installation day, with video cameras rolling from various vantage points, Ankrom put on a hardhat and safety vest, hoisted a ladder up to the larger freeway sign apparatus, and climbed up to the plank with his work." - The LAnd Magazine
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been law since 1990, but "tribes currently undergo an expensive process overseen by the museums and universities they are petitioning. Repatriation requests are processed through guidelines created by the institutions." - The New York Times
And that's because the museum made promises about the donation of a Francis Bacon collection - promises the donor says it hasn't kept. - The Observer (UK)
