Speed Outdoors, as it will be called, will feature landscaping by Reed Hilderbrand and, in its initial installation in 2025, artworks by (among others) Sol LeWitt, Zaha Hadid, Kulapat Yantrasast, and Mark Handforth. - The Architects' Newspaper
Under the four-year agreement, the more than five hundred workers, who in January 2022 unionized under the auspices of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), will receive raises of between 12.25 and 16.25 percent, with the lowest-paid workers seeing the greatest gains. - ArtForum
Peter John Higgs is suspected to have operated for years without detection and to have spirited away uncategorised items from the museum’s collection before selling them on the e-commerce site eBay. - The Art Newspaper
"Representatives from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam sent letters to the museum, via U.S. investigators, in May and June, saying the prized relics had no legal export permits to lawfully leave their countries. The museum, they said, did not respond." - The Denver Post
"The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the latest US institution to raise its admission fees to $30, making it one of the most expensive art museums in the country. … Other museums, like the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, have recently taken similar measures." - ARTnews
“The sheer volume of new artists, artworks, and platforms is growing. Think about the impact that YouTube had on a generation of viewers—it completely changed the business. I think we are seeing the beginning of something similar here. The volume of work we will be exposed to is just exploding.” - Artnet
"The iconic San Siro in Milan, which was set to be replaced by a Populous-designed stadium, has been saved from demolition because of its 'cultural heritage'. The stadium, which is shared by Italian football clubs Inter Milan and AC Milan, was rescued from demolition … due to its distinctive appearance." Dezeen
"(The museum) has sued its former director, Aaron De Groft, as well as others who were instrumental in bringing the now disgraced 'Heroes & Monsters' exhibit of work attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat to the institution in 2022." - Orlando Sentinel
While admission to the general collection and some special shows is free, the NG does charge for certain special exhibitions. Last year, amidst the UK's cost-of-living crisis, the museum began a name-your-price scheme on Friday evenings; that has now been extended through January. - FAD Magazine
As the fine-art auction market has grown more and more financialized in recent years, it has also grown more and more opaque to nearly everyone except the auction houses. - Artnet
The London museum has said its pay-what-you-will scheme will extend for one more major show - Franz Hals. They've done it for two earlier shows, and research shows 20 percent of pay-what-you-will visitors were seeing a special exhibit for the first time. - The Guardian (UK)
At the Met Museum, 68 Pueblo potters and cultural leaders organized a new exhibit. "The objects were all selected by members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective and the labels highlight Pueblo peoples’ voices and perspectives, rather than the traditional museum label style." - The New York Times
For instance, there's the Wild Boar, or the Crystal Palace dinosaurs: "Scientifically, they’re wildly inaccurate. But in every other way, they’re perfect: endlessly surprising, vividly alive; an enduring memorial to our Victorian ancestors’ hunger for knowledge." - The Observer (UK)
Maurice Tabard, once the assistant to Man Ray, helped discover "many of the techniques that became associated with the movement – solarisation, multiple exposures, the burning of negatives, all of which were designed to bring chance and free association into photographic practice." - The Guardian (UK)
