"Getty Trust CEO Katherine Fleming described the scene on the ground and how she and her staff worked from a conference center-turned-war room at the Getty Center in Brentwood, about 10 miles away — all while 16 staff members remained at the Villa to implement emergency protocols." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"The long-awaited showcase for one of Philadelphia’s most famous artists is starting 2025 with two major announcements: plans for a mid-September grand opening and the hiring of the senior director of programs, Juana Berrio, 45, who was chosen for her experience in arts programming, education, and curating." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
"A nearly year-long legal battle between the (museum) and a New York-based artist has ended. The center will pay artist Mary Miss $900,000 to settle the suit and move ahead with the destruction of her 1996 installation, Greenwood Pond: Double Site," which has deteriorated and is no longer safe. - Iowa Public Radio
"(Douglas) Chrismas, 80, helped build the Los Angeles art scene of the 1970s and ’80s through ambitious exhibitions at his gallery, Ace. But he was plagued by lawsuits from artists and landlords over lack of payment. … (He) has spent much of the last decade embroiled in prolonged bankruptcy proceedings." - The New York Times
Mario Rossero is currently the executive director of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), a professional membership organization for visual arts, design and media arts educators, per Carnegie Museums, a position which was preceded by his tenure as senior vice president of education for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Incredibly, for an artist who made New York his home for nearly 70 years, none of the fanciful public sculptures like these — the ones for which Oldenburg is most celebrated — are on permanent view in the city. - The New York Times
"Archaeologist Yuri de la Rosa Gutiérrez investigated (the site at La Cueva Pinta in Mexico's Coahuila state) and found one painting had been stolen and two others damaged, officials said. Photos show the blank rectangular sections surrounded by red and orange designs." - Miami Herald (MSN)
Ben Davis: "The main issue that will dominate, I believe, is cultural institutions trying, and probably failing, to process the confused splintering of the liberal ideological consensus. A faith in a certain type of cultural politics has fallen apart. What comes after, for the moment, is unclear." - Artnet
Since the Revolution, churches in France have been the property of the central government, and most of them which aren't Notre-Dame de Paris can't attract millions of euros in donations for renovations. Some local churches, facing declining attendance, are turning to unusual means to bring in money. - The New York Times
Unwelcome back, bad old days: “Several works by photographer Sally Mann displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth were reportedly removed following Texas Republican officials’ calls for an investigation into her artworks.” - Hyperallergic
“Having lived through more than 50 years of civil war in her native country, and having witnessed the fallout of that conflict in the displacement of millions of people, and in endemic political corruption and environmental destruction, she has watched those tragic patterns being replayed." - The Observer (UK)
"For decades, the interior of the Temple of Our Lady of the Assumption (in Santa María Huiramangaro in Michoacán state) stood stark white, with blue accents. But ... a new restoration has revealed a host of resplendent 16th-century religious paintings that once spanned the ceiling of the historic church." - Artnet
Such petroglyphs were designated by the state’s legislature as official state works of art in 2023, the Utah Bureau of Land Management noted, as it called them “incredibly important to preserve and contemplate.” They are also considered sacred ancestral sites for Indigenous people in the area.
The organisation, which is responsible for more than 130,000 works of art and attracted more than 2.4m visitors to its sites during 2023, has suggested "seismic changes" may need to be made to safeguard the future of what it describes as "some of Scotland’s greatest cultural assets". - The Scotsman
