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
“Woman Carrying the Embers vanished from the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland in 1974. Journalists from the Dutch culture magazine Vind spotted what they suspected was the painting at an exhibition in the Netherlands last year, and they alerted art sleuth Arthur Brand. - AFP (Yahoo!)
“The heist of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 million gold toilet from a British palace was caught on video that was just revealed to the court in the long-awaited criminal trial, as prosecutors explained how the men behind it smashed their way into (Blenheim) Palace … in September 2019.” - Artnet
“The Madrid-born architect is spending his time at the university rethinking how buildings and cities should face climate change. He believes that we must commit to an 'interspecies alliance.’” - El País English
"Duchamp may not be on the lips of many artists, over a century after his revolutionary moves in the art world, but he is in their subconscious.” - Artnet
"The majority of this art is still based on human manipulations of or interventions into natural processes — some of the ‘aid’ here feels, to put it into political terms, far less reciprocal than nonconsensual.” - Hyperallergic
