The two plots are at the southwest corner of the National Mall, near the Washington Monument: one is directly across the Mall from the African-American Museum, and the other is directly around the corner, facing the Tidal Basin. - MSN (The Washington Post)
At the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, two guys in "Just Stop Oil" t-shirts walked up to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring; one tried to superglue his head to the painting, then the other poured tomato soup over him. The art is undamaged; the vandals have been arrested. - The Guardian
"These two white British men are getting themselves their own museum because lack folks and women have taken over the white man's art institutions." The South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga commented on the post: "The taste of #whitemantears". - The Art Newspaper
"In a refurbished hall that used to be the cafeteria (at the Ministry of Culture), 76 precious paintings and sculptures from Iraq's foremost artists are on display for the first time since the National Museum of Modern Art was pillaged in the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion." - The Guardian
The swirling effect is meant to gently integrate the building into the surrounding meadow while creating a structure that complements — but never competes for attention with — Gehry’s adjoining signature handiwork. - The New York Times
While some union members described cold and awkward interactions with management, others had more positive anecdotes in which middle managers were excited at their colleagues’ return. - Hyperallergic
"In one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting — pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window frame — gained something extraordinary. It is now recognized by experts as a long-lost painting of Hercules and Omphale by Artemisia Gentileschi." - The New York Times
"The countdown is on for the much-anticipated April 22, 2023, reopening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock as it emerges from an ambitious redesign led by Studio Gang that fuses together a hodgepodge of several decade-spanning expansions with a natural light–flooded central addition." - The Architect's Newspaper
"A cache of 2,700-year-old marble relief carvings have been unearthed by archaeologists beneath the dilapidated Mashki Gate, just east of Mosul in Iraq. The incredibly well-preserved relics demonstrate how artists working under Assyrian King Sennacherib, who ruled between 705 and 681 B.C.E., developed their own unique style of art." - Artnet
"People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup," one said, referencing last week's climate action of tomato soup on a Van Gogh painting. - NBC News
Artist Pao Houa Her draws parallels "between the heyday of Hmong opium cultivation in Laos in the decades before the Vietnam War and the current Hmong cultivation of cannabis in the United States, particularly in California." - The New York Times
The manuscripts tell a newly rediscovered story of Mount Athos: "The new rulers took the community under their wing, preserved its autonomy and protected it from external interference." - NPR
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
