Kirsha Kaechele's installation Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania will be made into an actual ladies' lounge with the addition of a (luxurious) toilet. A church will be added as well; both churches and washrooms are exempt from anti-discrimination regulations. - BBC
These aren't climate-protesting art vandals, exactly; they're anti-inequality and agriculture protesters from the group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack). They threw orange-colored clay powder around the Hall of Mirrors to call for "universal, democratic and sustainable food." - Artnet
In the past year or so, the British Museum has been wrestling—often in public, and often to its considerable embarrassment—with what might be characterized as the twin legacies of Townley and Elgin. - The New Yorker
Plenty of art today shows us how terrible the world is, and we eat it up. Maurizio Cattelan knows this, and will gladly take the opportunity to play sadist. Case in point: - ARTnews
The stunt at the Pompidou Center Metz was organized by performance artist Deborah de Robertis (the one who was arrested in 2018 for getting naked at the Lourdes pilgrimage site). Ironically, the Metz show includes a photo of de Robertis displaying her own vulva under the one painted by Courbet. - France 24
"(The Madrid museum) said in a statement the work, titled Ecce Homo (Latin for 'Behold the Man') by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio will go on display from May 27 until October as a special one-piece exhibition following an agreement with its new owner, who has not been identified." - AP
Nicholson Baker is a professional writer who has become an amateur artist. It is hard to get good at one art form, harder still to make a living from it and hardest of all to get good at another. - The Wall Street Journal
What is most striking is the symbolic incorporation of the statue into the wider messaging of the protest... The students have dressed up Washington like the school mascot, adding new political symbols to existing ones. - Washington Post
"The Bauhaus, in its American imagining, became a place of heroism, even martyrdom. Nazism was, by definition, something done to the school, not by it.” The reality is, depressingly, quite different. - The Guardian (UK)
Those dismissing the protests as incoherent "should stand back and consider the iconography. … The students may be making inconvenient or even irrational requests of the institution and the country at large, but they are framing those demands as part of a continuum of American values." - Washington Post
Interviews show that “dogged by debt, over-optimistic financial forecasting, leadership turnover and overreliance on a small group of funders, the museum patched holes by creating new ones.” And, among small nonprofit museums, it’s far from alone. - Seattle Times
"Today, in our era of figuration and socially conscious painting, Stella’s 60-year devotion to abstract art might sound academic or even antediluvian. By his own admission, he did not see art as an efficient vehicle for improving society or combating injustice." - The New York Times
“'We are undefinable in so many ways, and it makes people think, ‘It’s just entertainment,’’ says Meow Wolf curator Han Santana-Sayles, 31, sitting in her newly rented Pasadena home. 'But I truly believe we are a wild art experiment.’” - Los Angeles Times
"During the Whitney’s 'Free Friday Night' event, which offers pay-what you-wish admission between 7pm and 10pm, around 100 activists distributed custom-printed imitation brochures using the museum’s stylized branding to draw attention to its funders and sponsors and their ties to 'genocide and dispossession.'” - Hyperallergic
“What makes such debates unusually exciting in the case of Poussin is not only the Frenchman’s unrivaled reputation for philosophical richness but also … that the leading Poussin authority in the 20th century was (a) in charge of Queen Elizabeth II’s art collection and (b) a Soviet spy." - Washington Post
