The gallery’s artists are so dominant in New York’s leading museums this season that some in the art world are calling it “Hauser spring.” - The New York Times
“Conservators will now have to repair the artwork, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, after it was ‘scratched’ by a child visiting the Rotterdam gallery where it was on display. The abstract painting from 1960, which measures 7'6" high by 8'6" wide, was a centerpiece of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.” - CNN
“His bushy-haired, denim-wearing image has inspired all kinds of merch, from bobbleheads and boxer briefs to wigs and waffle makers. Yet said the artist deserves something more: respect.” - Wall Street Journal (MSN)
“A turning point was a project with the artist Cecile Abish, who uses a wheelchair: ‘To get to the garden we needed to take her through the museum’s basement and out through our loading dock. … It threw into sharp relief how urgent this work was.’” - The New York Times
But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: "In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere, including the first Hmong judges and state elected officials, the culinary scene, farmers markets, and the arts.” - The New York Times
Oxford professor George Garnett announced in 2019 that he had counted 93 penises stitched into the embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England — 88 belonging to horses and five to humans. Historian Christopher Monk now argues that there is a 94th appendage; Garnett insists that that one is a scabbard. - The Guardian
The looting of the Sudan National Museum is the most striking example of the destruction of cultural heritage. Dramatic images of the remains of the temple of Buhen, rescued during the UNESCO campaign and brought to the museum, suggest that they have been damaged. - Apollo
“A New York City firm known for integrating architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape will reimagine Kansas City’s premier museum for the next generation of visitors. … The Weiss/Manfredi architecture firm was selected to design a new wing on the west end of its campus.” - KCUR (Kansas City)
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS ) has terminated two grants for Black history and culture that were awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a former plantation in Louisiana that focuses on the truths of slavery and the experiences of people who were enslaved. - The Guardian
Chicago History Museum Workers United formed in February with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. It was the latest in a wave of unionizing efforts at several of Chicago’s cultural institutions all part of AFSCME’s nationwide Cultural Workers United campaign. - Chicago Sun-Times
“A judge in New York ruled on Wednesday that the Art Institute of Chicago must surrender a 1916 drawing by Egon Schiele to investigators who plan to return it to heirs of a Jewish cabaret entertainer from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1941.” - The New York Times
