Twenty years after founding its gala, ArtCrush, in a town where an apartment can run north of $4 million, the museum is attempting a sharp shift toward being a global institution and away from its renown as a collector’s clubhouse. - ARTnews
“We are now the gateway to the European Union,” local art advisor Mattia Pozzoni told me over spritzes at local culinary institution Sant Ambroeus. The 2026 Winter Olympics will give Milan’s international profile another boost. - Artnet
On Thursday, she announced plans to depart the New Museum in April, after the institution opens its 62,000-square-foot expansion that cost $82 million and will double the museum’s overall space when it opens, which officials project will be at the end of the year. - The New York Times
New Art Exchange is one of just two cultural institutions in Britain – the other being Birmingham Museums Trust – that have put randomly selected members of the public at the heart of their decision making. The movement seems to be growing. - Apollo
The striking 1882 portrait Madame O’Connor reveals how Sargent was already experimenting with some of the same styling ideas that would go on to define his most notorious work, Madame X. - Artnet
“Fra Angelico,” which opens Friday and runs through Jan. 25, is one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year. Bringing together more than 140 works in two venues, it hopes to cement Fra Angelico’s reputation as an A-list Renaissance master. - The New York Times
“Instead of having to go build a prototype physically or a model room, you can take people on this journey and then make the decisions on what to tap left or tack right on before investing heavily in physical architecture. It also changes the role of the architect and the designer in the process. - Fortune
“The bronze-painted installation, titled Best Friends Forever, depicts the two men smiling at each other, each with an arm and leg raised as if in mid-frolic. 'In Honor of Friendship Month, we celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his 'closest friend,' Jeffrey Epstein,' reads the plaque.” - NPR
This exercise in what she calls immersive attention has remained a core element of Jennifer Roberts’s art history teaching for more than a decade, despite the ever-increasing amount of distractive pressures that smartphones, social media and now A.I. heap on students’ minds. - The New York Times
The prankster artist known for the solid-gold toilet (titled America) and the banana-taped-to-the-wall (Comedian) will have participants search for copies of his new piece We Are the Revolution (an effigy of himself nailed up by the collar) in market stalls, bodegas and other spots in New York, London, and Amsterdam. - ARTnews
Physical signs of aging — baldness, wrinkles, stooped postures — first figured prominently in Roman portraiture in the 4th century BCE, but old age and its representations have often been pushed to the margins. - Hyperallergic
"We came up with this idea to call for volunteers to go out and, in a systematic way, go exhibit by exhibit, room by room, hall by hall, museum by museum, and take pictures simply of what's up there now and what's being said now." - NPR
Justin Davidson: “Two decades ago, Downtown Brooklyn was well connected but underpopulated. ... It’s hard to believe how thoroughly and quickly the skyline has been remade in that time — and how shoddily. … Almost all the developers who built it out opted for a style you might call Consensus Clunkism.” - Curbed (MSN)
