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
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
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
“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, 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
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
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)
“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
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
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. 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)
This is not the first time that claims against the authenticity of Samson and Delilah have made headlines. In 2021, the Swiss tech start-up Art Recognition analyzed a digital reproduction of the painting using an A.I. it had trained to identify paintings by Rubens, concluding that there was a 91 percent chance it was fake. - Artnet
The piece was removed from the tapestry’s underside by SS officers in Nazi-occupied France in 1941 and sent for remeasurement to the Schleswig-Holstein State Archive, where it was recently rediscovered. - ARTnews
“In China’s era of architectural excess, Liu has instead quietly thrived by letting each site — and the history, nature and craft traditions surrounding it — shape his designs, not vice versa. Whether repurposing earthquake debris or creating voids in which native wild flora can flourish, methodology matters more than form.” - CNN
Jackson-Dumont’s departure comes just months after the museum quietly delayed its opening from this year to 2026. The museum has now delayed its opening three times. - ARTnews
