Check out a certain state in particular: "Collectors across the country are choosing to start their own museums, and perhaps nowhere has this trend been more notable than in Florida." - The New York Times
"School district officials and a high school student in Michigan have drawn the ire of parents who allege that a painted mural contains LGBTQ propaganda, a depiction of Satan and a message of witchcraft. The painting covers a wall inside a teen health center (in southwestern Michigan)." - NPR
"Archaeologists excavating the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, have uncovered the original stone mosaic floors where the saint ... would have stood during mass, and where his tomb was first located within the house of worship." - Artnet
It is easier to understand objects created during the current downfall of Columbus and those who followed him, if you can see the art created before they arrived and while they reigned. - The New York Times
Stable Diffusion’s AI allows users to create images from other pictures, drawn on the spot. That’s right: Input your napkin doodles and half-sketched masterpieces and AI will produce a complete image. (Well, sort of.) - Hyperallergic
The Louvre mother ship in Paris will lend Leonardo's Saint John the Baptist to its Gulf outpost for two years beginning next month, just as the museum is celebrating its fifth anniversary. - The National (Abu Dhabi)
Less than a year later, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, it has become a symbol of the cultural death knell of the country. - The Art Newspaper
“What makes ArtPrize unique is that awards and prizes are selected by both public visitors casting votes and also by jurors,” revealing “the intersections and incongruities between professional and populist opinions.” - Artnet
"(They're) one of few reminders, along with an 11pm curfew and the regular wailing of air raid sirens, that this bustling city is at war. Boxed up, muffled, veiled and hidden, they also give Kyiv a strange new look — as if the sculptures have been replaced by contemporary artworks." - The Guardian
The world's most expensive artwork has not been seen in public since it was sold at auction for $450 million in 2017. The anonymous purchaser is said to have been Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. Now one scholar says that MBS is building a bespoke museum for the painting. - Artnet
New York's MTA has commissioned the two superstars to create huge floor-to-ceiling mosaic murals for the new Long Island Rail Road terminal deep under Grand Central. - The New York Times
In the book Design and Crime, Hal Foster wrote that Gehry’s spaces “trump” the post-war art they were intended to hold, using its scale “as a pretext to inflate the contemporary museum into a gigantic spectacle-space that can swallow any art, let alone any viewer, whole”. - The Art Newspaper
Beatrix Ruf told The Art Newspaper that the Hartwig Art Foundation's museum will "change the shape of contemporary art not just for the city, but the Netherlands too". - The Art Newspaper
"Once ubiquitous in Hong Kong, the signs ... have been steadily removed in the last few decades. The recent dismantling of some of the largest remaining ones, however, is rekindling interest in the local art form." - Bloomberg CityLab
At first, Mr. Powell says, the artistic mischief was a joke, a test of whether anyone would notice and a strike against the ubiquitous prints he saw at hotel chains. Now, it is part of his brand and his business. - The Wall Street Journal
