The painting emerged "during attempts to trace all the paintings sold off across Europe after Charles I’s execution, which included seven recorded Gentileschi paintings." - The Observer (UK)
The museum's founders wanted a place to remember "Compton’s rich history and creativity—the vacant buildings of Compton transformed by the artist collective Communicative Arts Academy in the 1960s and 1970s or Elliott Pinkney’s murals." - Los Angeles Times
Replacing the stain of the Confederate-themed windows that were removed six years ago, the two new windows, designed by Kerry James Marshall, are themed for racial justice. - NPR
This is surprisingly logical, since Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote Le Petit Prince while living in the city after escaping the Nazi invasion of France. - Hyperallergic
"When the Corcoran was eviscerated, there was a pretense that somehow it would actually continue to exist — without its art, without its building, without its assets. No one believed that." But it's turned out to be even worse. - Washington Post
Yes, she wants to make the world's largest museum more welcoming, relevant, and diverse. She also wants to carve an entirely new second entrance into the building (for the people who want to see more than the Mona Lisa), and that will be a serious challenge. - The New York Times
“I am concerned that this situation could potentially undermine the progress we have made in the past five years in establishing A.I. as a mainstream method for authenticating art." - Artnet
"Newfields has appointed Belinda Tate as the next director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfield, concluding a nearly four-year hiring process and crisis of identity for the 140-year-old institution." - ARTnews
These are unusual blows to one of the largest and most smoothly run art businesses in the world, and they have incited plenty of trade gossip. But more interesting are the insights they offer into the high costs and higher stakes of competing at the top of the private art market. - The Art Newspaper
"In an unprecedented fusion of technology and art, … this ambitious undertaking harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to curate an immersive journey through the digital realm. While not without its challenges, the exhibit offers a unique and thought-provoking experience that pushes the boundaries of traditional curation." - Artnet
Jens Haaning sometimes incorporates actual currency in his works, and in 2021 a Danish museum gave him the equivalent of about $76,000 to recreate two of those pieces. Instead, he kept the cash and turned in two blank canvases titled Take the Money and Run. The judge is not amused. - Hyperallergic
"A lot of drawing teachers say that everyone can learn to draw. A lot of drawing teachers haven't met me, I thought. … Then, in 2019, I ... (had) the realization that computers have done for drawing what word processors did for writing. Call it the magic of undo." - The New York Times
He was among the most visible artists of the ’70s, with millions seeing his paintings on television each week; yet his work was excluded from major museum collections. - The New York Times
