The art world’s consensus has been that the painting was inspired by the African masks Picasso saw on a visit to Paris’s first ethnographic museum in 1907. Collector/researcher Alain Moreau argues that Demoiselles was completed before then and Picasso inspiration came instead from medieval Catalan frescoes. - The Times (UK)
The 1966 watercolor-and-felt-tip painting was meant to be part of a series of illustrations for The Arabian Nights; Dalí never finished the project. When someone bought it in Cambridge two years ago for £150, nobody realized it was a Dalí. Then someone spotted the signature. - The Guardian
Site Santa Fe opened in 1995 in a former warehouse turned nonprofit gallery in the city’s art-filled Railyard District, but it stretches to museums and unconventional venues nearby, including a much-beloved novelty store and a boutique-y cannabis dispensary. - The New York Times
The 12th-century Sijena Murals were moved from the monastery where they were created following heavy damage during the Spanish Civil War. Ever since, they’ve been in Barcelona at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Spain’s highest court ordered their return to Sijena, but museum officials think the works won’t survive the trip. - Artnet
Hungary’s autocratic prime minister has ordered the renovation of the district around Buda Castle to what the government claims is its 19th-century glory. Many critics argue that the reconstructions are modern concrete structures with period veneers that owe more to Orbán’s taste than to history. - Bloomberg CityLab
It has been a century since the term “Art Deco” was coined, a shortened version of the name of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts and Industrial Style, held in Paris in 1925. That the building is on the market — and a steal! - Hyperallergic
The museum announced that more than 5.7 million attendees visited its two locations — The Met Fifth Ave and The Cloisters. While the visitor rates do not surpass The Met’s 2019 attendance record of over 7 million guests, the data indicates a 5% increase from last year. - Hyperallergic
“From reports we received from the field, the Brighty statue did survive the fire at the Grand Canyon Lodge, however, it is heavily damaged with two front legs and an ear missing." - SFGate
These include the art-market subfield, the exhibition subfield, the academic subfield, a multitude of community-based subfields, and the field of cultural activism. While these subfields overlap to varying degrees, they operate with and within fundamentally different economies, discourses, practices, institutions, and social spaces. - e-flux
On Thursday, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Burton, 53, would be exiting the Los Angeles museum at the end of October after just four years in the job to become director of the institute. - The New York Times
The French government has teamed up with tech giant Microsoft to create a “digital twin” of the 862-year-old treasure. This virtual version will be achieved by taking thousands of photographs using cameras, drones, and lasers to capture every inch of the building’s exterior and interior. Specialists will then use A.I. to stitch these back together into a perfect replica....
“When the San Francisco Art Institute shut its doors in 2022, even the turtles in the campus's courtyard pond were evicted. But deep below street level, two archivists are fighting to preserve more than 150 years of radical art history from vanishing into the void.” - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
Amy Sherald, the celebrated painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that the museum might remove an artwork that could further provoke the Trump administration as it seeks to exert control over the Smithsonian Institution. - Washington Post
When Johanna Burton came to MOCA in 2021, the museum was still recovering from the contentious firing of curator Helen Molesworth and resignation of director Philippe Vergne. Burton was to be co-director with Klaus Biesenbach, who instead left for Berlin. Now she herself is headed to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. - ARTnews
The bill—titled the Art Market Integrity Act—would amend the Bank Secrecy Act to require art dealers and auction houses to comply with anti-money-laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing regulations. - ARTnews
