The state had allocated almost $58 million in funding toward Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, which was originally expected to open late this year or in 2025. Officials changed their minds after projections indicated that the museum would have an annual operating deficit of $19 million. - Artnet
Regularly reinventing architecture is exciting, but it faces a number of challenges. Architecture is an art, hence creativity is important, but it is an applied art, which makes it fundamentally empirical—that is, ruled not by theory but by experience. - American Scholar
The author of Erasure (on which the movie American Fiction was based) and James is also an artist. When he’s creating art, he says, it’s harder to explain his work. "I’m working off an idea or feeling that is not based in words. There is a physicality to it." - LitHub
That’s what’s happening in Indiana, where "Valparaiso University has shuttered the Brauer Museum of Art and dismissed its director, Jonathan Canning, amid ongoing controversy over the university’s plan to sell three artworks to fund renovations of its freshman dormitories.” - Artnet
“As the raft bobbed its way across the many thousands at the Other stage, the band played the song 'Danny Nedelko,' which features lyrics that strongly condemn right-wing immigration policies and call for togetherness and compassion.” - BBC
The founding member of queer art collective fierce pussy, which had a show in Paris last year, says, “I don’t want a seat at the table, I want to change the shape of the table — or do away with the table altogether.” - Hyperallergic
Roger Walker says that in many cases, he was just reacting to the fact that so many houses looked essentially the same. Why not add a turret or two? - The Observer (UK)
“Her concerns – unusual and even eccentric in her own times – are now ubiquitous. Ecology, feminism, the interconnectedness of all life forms, spirituality outside of organised religion: today we’re all aware of these issues, but they were front and centre for Carrington 80 years ago.” - The Observer (UK)
Over the past few years, attendance levels fell and fund-raising efforts slowed as overhead costs and employee salaries rose. Many museums are doing fewer exhibitions per year in an attempt to tighten their belts. - The New York Times
Legends Tower recently gained approval from the city to have an unlimited height, and after a series of changes, the skyscraper is now slated to reach 581 metres (1,907 feet), making it the tallest in the world outside Asia and more than double the height of Oklahoma City's second-tallest building. - Dezeen
That September, officials from present-day Belgium and the Netherlands arrived at the Louvre to reclaim artworks plundered during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. "(It) is such a critical moment in art history that 200 years later it resurfaces again and again as debates over repatriation continue." - The New York Times
The museum, currently expected to open in 2026, had $58 million in earmarked funding from various New Jersey government sources. But the latest estimate from a city agency projects Pompidou x Jersey City to have a $19 million annual operating deficit, and some of the funders are having second thoughts. - Artnet
“The program we’re building on at Tinworks connects with the American West, which is a place, a notion, an idea, and an ideal. It’s also a very conflicted and complicated place as we consider all the histories and all the peoples affected by how the West has been developed. - ARTnews
"A man from Kazakhstan reportedly carved 'Ali' on light plaster in the House of the Ceii when he was caught on Saturday. The wall is part of an ancient villa believed to have been owned by the magistrate Lucius Ceius Secundus. The vandal will have to pay for the necessary restoration." - ARTnews
“Our study confirms that the island couldn’t have supported more than a few thousand people. As such, contrary to the ecocide narrative, the population present at European arrival wasn’t the remnants of Rapa Nui society, but was likely the society at its peak, living at the levels that were sustainable on the island.” - The Guardian
