UICA, which merged with a nearby state university and art college in 2013 following earlier financial troubles, said in its announcement that it has not recovered from the pandemic closures and "was not able to maintain the funding necessary to remain operational or become sustainable." - MLive (Michigan)
There is something universally cheery and comforting about the phrase “oldest ever winner” – designed to put a glint in the middle-aged eye and send lapsed artists everywhere rifling through drawers for their box of watercolours. - The Guardian
The Caribbean-English artist Ryan, who is 66 years old, is the second Black woman and the oldest artist to ever win the prize, which comes with a monetary award of £25,000 (~$30,594). But for many, the artist may not be a household name. - Hyperallergic
I can’t help but think that the artwork people are photographing in museums is falling on myopic eyes. Museumgoers are increasingly regarding the work they find in art museums as an accoutrement to their existence, to their world. - Hyperallergic
Every art lover, Blake Gopnik included, is aghast at the potential damage to cultural treasures. But he's also aghast at the damage being wreaked upon the world. These works of art may not deserve to be attacked by climate activists, Gopnik says, but perhaps that's not true of all of them. - NPR
The series highlights the cozy nature between curators, scholars, museums and dealers — and how incentives align to allow the dirty world of the international art market to proliferate. - Denver Post
Qatar spent a reported $220 billion preparing for the tournament, conjuring new buildings, new neighborhoods and even an entirely new city. To be here now is to exist in a bubble of high unreality. - The New York Times
At 66 the oldest person ever to win Britain's top art award, Ryan was honored for her memorial to the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants to the UK — a group Ryan is herself part of (her family brought her to England from Montserrat when she was 3). - The Guardian
Multiple artists have accused Stable Diffusion of using their art without permission. Many in the digital art space have also expressed qualms over AI models producing images en masse for so cheap, especially if those images imitate styles that actual artists have spent years refining. - NBCNews
The ancient Near East had many divine beings with wings, including cherubim and seraphim. Yet, in both Old and New Testaments, angels are identified by gleaming robes or "a countenance like lightning," and they got to and from heaven on ladders. Their wings appeared several centuries later. - History Today
A New York-based nonprofit called the Restitution Study Group is asking a US federal court to undo the ownership transfer of the Smithsonian's 29 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, arguing that the repatriation "denies the descendants of enslaved people in America the chance to experience their heritage." - ARTnews
Although it was never publicized, the two institutions were to have jointly presented next year’s exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, but the arrangement was abruptly terminated following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - The Art Newspaper
The color company used AI to create an "endless new ecosystem to be explored, called 'the Magentaverse'." Well. As the subhed puts it, "Say hello to Viva Magenta, the color no one asked for, coming to a world where no one lives." - The New York Times
The incident was reminiscent of recent climate actions at European museums, however the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it has been deemed an isolated attack unconnected to any climate protection group. - ARTnews
Comparing their campaign to that of the suffragettes — one of whom attacked a Velázquez at London's National Gallery with a meat cleaver in 1914 — Just Stop Oil spokesperson Alex De Koning said, "If that's unfortunately what it needs to come to, then that's unfortunately what it needs to come to." - Artnet
