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UC Irvine Takes Over Troubled Orange County Museum Of Art

The University of California, Irvine will take over administration and operating costs for the troubled museum, which this year has weathered the announcement that CEO and director Heidi Zuckerman is leaving her post in December, and the resignation of several board members. - CultureOC

The Pigment Shop In Manhattan That Is A Paradise For Painters And Conservators Alike Is Closing

Yes, you can blame tariffs, a disaster for the artists who say Kremer was so, so much more than a pigment shop. - Hyperallergic

Orange County Museum Of Art Officially Acquired By University Of California Irvine

“UC Irvine will oversee the OCMA’s 53,000-square-foot, $98 million facility, which opened in 2022, within the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus in the neighboring city of Costa Mesa. … The new institution will now be named the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art.” - ARTnews

Financial Support For Museums Is Changing. Here’s How

In the late 20th century and into the early 2000s, museums relied on a value proposition of individual prestige: big collections, big buildings, big donors, big sums. For today’s rising generation of patrons, clout alone no longer justifies investment. What they want instead is transparency and meaningful engagement. - Artnet

Why Corporate Sponsorships Are Becoming Problematic For Museums

Bolstered by culture secretary Lisa Nandy’s blunt defense of business partnerships earlier this year, leaders at major institutions, including the V&A, British Museum, and the National Gallery warned that boycotts and public pressure are jeopardizing their survival in an open letter published in May. - Artnet

Entering The Multiple Worlds Of This Year’s Turner Prize Nominees

If you live in Bradford, Britain’s City of Culture for 2025, it will be especially easy - including a “floating fantasy kingdom” where you must remove your shoes to experience the shiny gold floor. - BBC

A Statue Of Trump And Epstein Won’t Get A Permit For Reinstallation On The National Malla

Perhaps unsurprisingly, “The National Park Service denied a second permit to reinstall the controversial statue, which featured a plaque reading, ‘We celebrate the long-lasting bond between President Donald J. Trump and his ‘closest friend,’ Jeffrey Epstein.’” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)

Frida, Before And Beyond Diego

“Just three blocks from Casa Azul, the new museum centers on the artist’s family and her origins. It’s intended to be a prequel of sorts, adding intimate context and texture to what might otherwise feel like a well-known tale.” - The New York Times

Sure, It’s A Masterpiece, But Did Brueghel Actually Approve Of His Painting?

The thing is, “we know dismayingly little about Bruegel, given his greatness.” - Washington Post (MSN)

Ronald Perelman Sued For Money After His Paintings Survived A House Fire, Apparently Unscathed

The judge was not sympathetic; nor was he super friendly to the insurance company. But how are the Twomblys? - The New York Times

Aspen Art Museum Takes A Turn To The Global

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

Is Milan’s Art World Ready For A Breakthrough?

“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

After 26 Years, Lisa Philips To Retire As Director Of The New Museum

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

What Does It Mean To Put Your Community At The Heart Of Arts Institution Decisions?

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

Newly-Discovered John Singer Sargent Portrait On View At Paris’s Musée d’Orsay

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

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