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Class Action Suit Against Christie’s Over Cyberhack

The complaint filed in the Southern District of New York on June 3 alleges that Christie’s was unable to protect the “personally identifiable information”, or PII, of its clients, of which is estimated to be at least half a million current and former buyers in its databases. - ARTnews

As The Senate Blocks A Bill Enshrining The Right To Contraception, A New Sculpture Lands In DC

Yes, it’s protest art: “Installed by Americans for Contraception (AFC), a campaign advocating for contraceptive access across the country, the lavender IUD is set to pop up in various states where birth control access is most at risk.” - Hyperallergic

Private Museum Employees Vote To Unionize After Pressure From Owners

There’s a wave of unionizing among museum employees, and “Glenstone is a relative newcomer. The museum opened in 2006 as a private center for the art collection of the Raleses, who live across a pond from the museum’s galleries.” - Washington Post

Catherine Opie’s Lifelong Work Is To Fight Queer Invisibility With Art

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

A Small Town In Spain Wants To ‘Break The Stranglehold’ Of Madrid And Barcelona’s Arts Scenes

“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)

The Artist Who Defines Persistence

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)

Big, Golden Art In Las Vegas

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

Archaeologists Discover Stunning Blue Room In Pompeii

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

Finally Fed Up With Instagram, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Artists Leave For Startup Rival

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

Folks In Portland, Maine Can’t Agree On Whether Or How To Expand The Museum Of Art

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)

Remember When The Berkshire Museum Sold Its Norman Rockwells And Other Art? Here’s What It’s Doing With The Money.

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 At 100

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

When Seven Artists Withdrew Their Work From An Exhibition, San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum Had A … Er, Thoughtful Response

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

Israel Museum’s Roof Damaged By Fire In Possible Arson

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

Adobe Called Out For Selling Ansel Adams-Style AI Work

“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

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