The Art Institute’s effort to change "can especially be seen in the museum’s arts of the Americas department, where 33 percent of its acquisitions in 2016-23 were by named women artists — 61 out of 183 objects. That pace is significantly higher than that of the museum world at large." - Chicago Sun-Times
The Sun Valley museum has no permanent collection, a small exhibition space, and an audience that’s mixed - contemporary art-fan resort visitors and local kids. The curator says, “I think about exhibition schedules in terms of what schools or what teachers, what grades might be interested in." - Slate
"Kahlo’s red lipstick and fingernails, the yarn decorating her woven hair and blouse, and perhaps even the high blush of her cheeks are thought to symbolize her Communist sympathies.” Then there’s the letter she holds. - Washington Post
It’s not incredibly popular, "with some viewing the project as 'hostile' and ‘corporate' when juxtaposed with the original building as well as the surrounding Bowery neighborhood.” - Hyperallergic
"The eye-catching proposal, which was formally submitted to (Los Angeles) city planning authorities this week, will transform a two-acre site on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard into a 22-story entertainment industry workplace dubbed The Star … (with) greenery spilling out from a series of terraces spiraling up its façade." - CNN
The sale of the downtown facility will dramatically alter perceptions of the museum’s long-standing binational mandate, aimed at artists and audiences in the border area of San Diego and Tijuana. Closure also raises difficult questions about the fate of several works of art in the permanent collection. - Los Angeles Times
"The long-running arts organization, which specializes in project-based community programming, currently has more than $3.68 million in funding for the year. However, (Mayor Cherelle Parker's) new financial plan could reduce the total to $2.68 million per year for the next five years." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what it is, what it does – have been with us since the first photographic images were produced in the early 19th century. - The Easel
"Museums have tried and failed in the past to assemble the (surviving) eight panels, spread among five museums in Europe and the United States, of the original 30-piece polyptych." The paintings are currently being exhibited at the Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. - AP
"A trio of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens will remain with their current owner, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the UK Parliament’s spoliation advisory panel ruled. … The panel, which determines the rightful ownership of contested artworks, rejected three separate claims for the Rubens works." - ARTnews
Despite being surrounded by a protective metal fence, white paint was thrown onto the artwork and discovered by local residents on the morning of March 20. - ARTnews
For most of their adult lives, the two women employed an elaborate hoax in which Hepworth’s paintings were exhibited and sold under Preece’s name. Their trick was particularly successful in the 1920s and ’30s, when they fooled not only Woolf and Bell, but other major art-world figures. - Hyperallergic
"When Pope Benedict XIV sent a team of three mathematicians to inspect the dome in 1742, they found, as Benedict suspected they might, a cataclysm waiting to happen." They worked out calculations to get the dome in balance, and, in the process, invented modern engineering. - The American Scholar
