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
The carved stone-and-marble panel was installed by the Crusaders when they reconsecrated the church in 1149 and went missing after a fire ravaged part of the building in 1808. During recent construction work, the panel was found standing on end in a rear corridor, its underside covered with graffiti. - Artnet
The second wave feminist idea is new again: Women have all of the art - and more: “We are asking visitors to ... take a leap of the imagination and think what it would be like if governance and decision-making were in the hands solely of women.” - The Observer (UK)
“Taylor Pelton, 28, has reportedly been charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime. Pasternak’s Brooklyn Heights residence was splashed with red paint in an apparent protest of the museum’s ties to Zionist organizations. The residences of several Brooklyn Museum board trustees were also targeted.” - ARTnews
That is, what they’ve called “a pot of gold” (golden coins) that help explain the political landscape from the time of the Pelepponisian War. - The New York Times
“Art shipping and storage companies seek to avoid abrupt changes in temperature and humidity as much as possible to prevent possible damage, especially to antique works on wood panels, paper, and wax prints.” - ARTnews
The new museum, called the Centre d’Art Rodin, will open in September in the building constructed as the French pavilion for Expo 2010. The project was first announced in 2019 for Shenzhen but was moved to be part of the larger city's art scene. - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
"Ohio History Connection and Moundbuilders Country Club have agreed to terms over the Octagon Earthworks in Licking County. The site is part of Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023." - Cincinnati Public Radio
A team of scientists found that “the Dutch Master incorporated 'pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar' — yellow and reddish-orange arsenic sulfide mineral variants that he mixed with lead-tin yellow and vermillion to achieve the glinting, reflective hue.” - Hyperallergic
The California student was at an estate sale. “I looked closely at the back and I saw it said Chagall and I was like, ‘Marc Chagall, are you serious?’” - Artnet
“Two of the founders of the new camp — architects and friends Mike Laverdure and Sam Olbekson — estimate that there are only about 30 Indigenous architects total in the U.S.” - and they’d like to change that number. - MPR
The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts is training and certifying craftspeople in disciplines that might otherwise be dying out, such as Pakistani kashikari ceramics, Persian miniature painting, Moroccan zellige mosaic tilework and Egyptian Mamluk woodcarving. - The Guardian
"An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York without the institution’s permission." - ARTnews
