Opie: “We have a national warning advisory around pride for gay and lesbian and trans folks. It’s crazy. But we’re still trying to go forward and celebrate with visibility, and I just feel like that’s a very powerful, optimistic place to try to be in.” - Hyperallergic
“If the aesthetic aim is to share 120 pieces that illustrate how the arrival of Italian and Flemish art in Valencia fuelled and influenced the Renaissance in Spain, its parallel goal is to bring cultural events to parts of the country that are all too often neglected.” - The Observer (UK)
Alison Aye, a "58-year-old textile and collage artist who is based in London, has submitted work to the Royal Academy (RA) over the last 31 years, and always been rejected. But when, this year, she found out she had finally succeeded, she felt conflicted.” - The Observer (UK)
Urs Fischer "became a more permanent presence in the desert entertainment mecca when the delay-plagued, 67-story Fontainebleau, a casino and 3,644-room hotel that cost $3.7 billion, debuted its ‘Urs Fischer Gallery.’” But can blue chip art make it in the gambling town? - The New York Times
The stunning blue-ground walls are decorated with female figures representing the four seasons and allegorical representations of agriculture and pastoralism, according to experts. - Euronews
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts. - TechCrunch
The museum's director, backed by the city council, thinks it'll take the amenities in a new $100 million building to attract visitors back to pre-COVID levels. Others think such a building doesn't belong in Portland's historic district and worry the museum can't afford to operate and maintain it. - The Boston Globe (MSN)
The $53 million in proceeds from the 2018 sale is funding a major renovation and redesign of the building as the museum, located in Pittsfield, Mass., narrows its focus away from art to science and local history. - The Boston Globe (MSN)
Roy Lichtenstein, a luminary of the Pop Art movement alongside Andy Warhol, would have celebrated his hundredth birthday last October. His legacy reverberates through the annals of 20th-century art history, leaving a lasting mark on the creative landscape. - New York Observer
The artists demanded control of their works' presentation and that the Contemporary Jewish Museum both boycott Israel and divest from companies doing business there; they withdrew when the museum said it couldn't comply. What the museum did instead is either strikingly gracious or brilliantly passive-aggressive (or both). - The New York Times
A bushfire that started in Jerusalem's Valley of the Cross spread quickly to the museum — home to, among other archaeological riches, the Dead Sea Scrolls — damaging the roof of the youth wing. Firefighters stopped the blaze before it reached the building's interior. Both natural causes and possible arson are being investigated. - Artnet
“We don’t have a problem with anyone taking inspiration from Ansel’s photography,” said the Adams estate. “But we strenuously object to the unauthorized use of his name to sell products of any kind, including digital products, and this includes AI-generated output. - The Verge
The work was last seen in public in 1952 when Joan Llonch Salas leant it to a group exhibition at the Barcelona gallery Gaspar, as recorded by another label on the back of the work. - Artnet
It is a symptom of the fact that the whole system of art consumption and display otherwise feels itself deeply vulnerable to all kinds of other criticisms about its entanglement with wealth and power, in very fraught times. - Artnet
What he plans to do looks a lot like what he did with Little Island in New York City's Hudson River — create a rising-and-falling landscaped trail with platforms at varying heights that will host music and art events. At least with this project, called Soundscape, the island is already there. - Dezeen
