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A Man Has Died After Falling From Tate Modern’s 10th Floor

“The Met said the man's death was being treated as 'unexpected but not thought to be suspicious.’" - BBC

Hundertwasser’s New Zealand Legacy

The Hundertwasser Art Centre "has had a bumpy start. The centre opened in February 2022, while New Zealand’s international borders were still closed to tourists.” And then two floods devastated local roads. - The Guardian (UK)

Does Vandalizing Art Really Help The Cause Of Climate Change Activists?

With today’s political institutions largely focused on short-term desires over long-term planetary health, and global climate negotiations moving too slowly to meet the challenge, climate activists have been radically rethinking their tactics. - Los Angeles Times

Conversations About The Parthenon Marbles Drag On

Seeking a fair resolution on the marbles can hardly be said to open the floodgates. First of all, the marbles are as close to unique a case as possible. - The Art Newspaper

Visitor Falls To His Death Inside London’s Tate Modern Gallery

"(Ambulances) didn’t arrive quickly enough to revive the man, who was pronounced dead around 10:45 a.m. local time. Few other details about the fatal plunge were immediately released, including the victim’s name and age." - The Daily Beast

World Monuments Fund Hands Over Management Of Three Angkor Sites To Cambodian Government

"This new chapter for the Ta Som and Preah Khan Temples, alongside the Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery in Angkor Wat, coincides with a new phase of WMF conservation undertakings at Phnom Bakheng." - The Art Newspaper

The Brooklyn Museum Prepares To Celebrate Its 200th (Yes, 200th) Anniversary

"This year, the museum will sing a song of itself" (the reference is to noted Brooklynite Walt Whitman) "for its 200th anniversary, with a slate of events and exhibitions that includes a major group show of Brooklyn artists and a reinstallation of its American art galleries." - The New York Times

How Anna Weyant Became The Art World’s “It” Artist

I know why Weyant’s friend protested the dress: It could fuel the fire hose of attention that the glamorous, photogenic, and precocious painter has generated over the last several years for her ultrafast rise in the art world, her staggering secondary market prices, and her personal life. - GQ

How LEDs Are Transforming The World

LEDs have also transformed cultural events involving creative lighting. They’re why stadium shows and EDM festivals look so freaking awesome, to fangirl for a minute, and why even many just-getting-started bands have pretty neat light displays. - The Atlantic

331 Artists Chosen For This Year’s Venice Biennale

The number of artists featured in this year’s Biennale far surpasses the 213 artists that were included in the 2022 edition. - ARTnews

NY’s Rubin Museum To Close Its Space

Rather than ceasing to exist, the museum will continue on as a spaceless institution that provides long-term loans and as an organization that will facilitate research. - ARTnews

New York’s Rubin Museum Will Sell Its Building And Become A “Museum Without Walls”

"(The museum dedicated to Himalayan Buddhist art) will close Oct. 6, when its last exhibition ends, before the institution transitions to a skeleton crew that will process long-term loans and research inquiries and help with fund-raising. Nearly 40 percent of its employees will lose their jobs." - The New York Times

How The Art World Really Works (By An Undercover Journalist)

Her goal is to figure out why contemporary art attracts so much money, status and (occasionally) talent. She spent several years taking entry-level jobs in galleries and artist studios so she could vividly capture the new class hierarchies in American culture and the subtle cues that mark cultural distinction. - Washington Post (MSN)

Bar Fight! The Frick Backs Down

After residents on the Upper East Side of Manhattan claimed they were blindsided by the Frick Collection’s plans to serve liquor from 17 bars inside the newly renovated museum, the institution has reached a concession with the neighborhood for just 14 bars. - Artnet

Design For Florence’s New Airport Has A Vineyard On The Roof

"Few details about the design (by Rafael Viñoly Architects) have been released, but the terminal's main feature will be a vast sloping roof, which will be lined with skylights and 38 rows of usable vineyards." - Dezeen

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