When’s the big reveal after the surprise five animal appearances this week? Is the artist protesting far-right rioters, climate change, or … what? - The Guardian (UK)
"The cave paintings (in the Sierra Sur de Jaén mountain range) were made on limestone, which contains water-soluble salts. When water is poured on the paintings, these salts dissolve and then come to the surface when the water evaporates, leaving a crust that causes 'irreparable damage' to the paintings." - CNN
The image of a howling wolf was on a satellite dish on top of a store on Rye Lane. Two men with a ladder and masks quickly snagged the satellite dish and ran off with it. - BBC
"'We no longer see any prospect of success,' the group (Last Generation Austria) said in a statement. The group regularly made headlines over the past two years blocking streets and pouring black liquid over a screen protecting Gustav Klimt's masterpiece Death And Life in Vienna's Leopold Museum." - AFP (Barron's)
A British art center, “initially due to be located at the gallery’s current campus in Vernon Square in central London, will later be moved a couple of miles south next to the Thames in purpose-designed premises at Somerset House.” - ARTnews
Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer are both staff curators at the Whitney; Guerrero is the museum's first curator devoted specifically to Latinx art, while Sawyer's field of expertise is photography. - ARTnews
Why? It’s a mystery. “A Banksy fan who raced to the artwork’s location as soon as it was revealed on social media said she thinks it’s a commentary on humans destroying the natural world.” - ARTnews
The collection of 1,400 objects belongs to broker Sam Njunuri, who's been ordered to sell part of it to pay $990,000 in damages to two former tenants and used bankruptcy proceedings to avoid paying before. What's more, the objects' provenance is unclear, and taxpayers' money has been used to store them. - ARTnews
This isn't as bad as "Beast Jesus," but the repainting at the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón in the city of Soria has some people very upset. One might or might not object to the white-with-coral-trim walls, but the real disaster is on the faces of some little cherubs. - The Guardian
The artwork by the Gao Brothers, titled Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head, was brought to San Antonio in March 2022. That November, Christopher Rodriguez detonated two canisters of explosives at its base, thinking it was a glorification of Communism. - San Antonio Report
“His statue joins that of another Arkansas native, Daisy Bates, a civil rights leader who headed the state’s NAACP chapter and mentored the Black students who came to be known as the Little Rock Nine.” - ARTnews
