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San Francisco Is Slashing Budgets For The City’s Museums, Maybe Endangering Collections

The proposal also calls for the elimination of positions in security management, human resources and museum operations. - San Francisco Chronicle

Remembering Jeanne-Claude And Christo’s Gift To New York, Two Decades On

The artists “illuminated Olmsted and Vaux’s paths in municipal orange, rendering the park’s plan visible to a visitor, thus reinscribing it as a public artwork.” - Hyperallergic

On The Day Before A Five-Year Renovation Begins, Paris’s Pompidou Is Swarmed

France does not do museum renovations by halves. “The building, famous for its facade adorned with colourful pipes and ventilation shafts, will be given a top-to-toe renovation” - partly because of a massive quantity of asbestos. - The Guardian (UK)

A Painter’s Work Is Never Finished

Janiva Ellis says, “Some of them are done,” she said. “Some of them are actually not done. Some of them are not done, but I’ll never work on them again.”- The New York Times

Frank Lloyd Wright May Have Owed A Lot To This Long-Forgotten Nicaraguan Artisan

Manuel Sandoval “had been part of the 1932 founding class at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship in Wisconsin. … The young man had been interested in studying architecture, but Wright — renowned for exploiting the labor of his apprentices — preferred to keep him in the woodshop.” - Hyperallergic

In The Netherlands, Anselm Kiefer Wonders If Humans Will Ever Learn

The German artist said “stays abreast of current events, and said that recently he has felt a physical sense of threat by the rise of right-wing authoritarian leadership, both in Germany and in the United States.” - The New York Times

In Buffalo, Protestors Decry The Layoffs Of 13 Unionized Museum Workers

The sudden “reorganization” happens (coincidentally!) to result in openings for non-union security guards. A union organizer said, “It is appalling to see AKG take a page from Elon Musk’s playbook — undermining its own employees and our hard-won rights.” - Hyperallergic

The Poem That Gave Late-‘80s Britain A National Conniption Fit

“If it's unusual for a poem to escape the world of literature, it's virtually unheard of for one to provoke angry newspaper headlines, prompt politicians to demand action and members of the public to furiously call TV channels.” That’s what happened with the 1987 TV broadcast of Tony Harrison’s poem “V.” - BBC

Brick Is Making A Comeback In Urban Architecture

 Brick, stone, and terra-cotta, products that have the solidity and hue of earth, have timidly but perceptibly snuck back into New York’s repertoire of architectural ambitions. - New York Magazine

US Department Of Defense Bans Images Of Enola Gay Plane In “Gay” Crackdown

In total, 26,000 images have been flagged, according to the AP, though one official told the outlet that that number could reach 100,000 when considering social media posts and other websites. - The Daily Beast

San Francisco Museums Are Caught In City’s Budget Crisis

With the city government facing an $876 million budget deficit, the mayor has asked all city departments to expect 15% funding reductions. The de Young Museum and Legion of Honor may eliminate a quarter of their city-funded staff positions; other San Francisco museums are looking at similarly painful cuts. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Cache Of Ancient Egyptian Gold Jewelry Discovered At Temple Of Karnak

“Researchers were surveying the northwest sector of the site (at Luxor) when they unearthed a partially broken ceramic vessel that held the artifacts. The well-preserved objects have been dated to the 26th Dynasty (664–525 B.C.E.).” - Artnet

Uh-Oh, Get Your Knives Out: ARTnews’ List Of The 100 Best Works Of Art In The 21st Century

The joy of an epic list like this one is that it can’t encapsulate everything: we know we’ve left some artworks off, simply because there was no shortage to choose from. We hope you’ll discover some amazing pieces here, reflect on some that are much-loved already, and debate the merits of others. - ARTnews

Unknown Donatello Sculpture Turns Up In Museum Storeroom

The marble bust, depicting Mantua noblewoman Cecilia Gonzaga, was identified in a storeroom at the Spiš Museum in Levoča, Slovakia. It was previously thought to be a 19th-century copy and was at one point used as a toy by the young girls at a reformatory. - Artnet

D.C. Will Paint Over Black Lives Matter Plaza Mural After GOP Threatens Transit Funding

“D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser signaled Tuesday that the city would paint a new mural at Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White House after a Republican lawmaker introduced a bill threatening millions of dollars in transportation funding if Bowser did not agree to erase and rename it.” - The Washington Post (MSN)

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