Allison Meier

Feb 14, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Allison Meier |Tom Seymour |Nancy Kenney

The legacy of slavery has always been entwined with the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s 1,000-acre Tennessee plantation. There, about ten miles north-east of downtown Nashville, remnants of the quarters formerly inhabited by people enslaved by the seventh US president have been excavated, and artefacts of their daily lives have been unearthed—from sewing thimbles to toy marbles. Until last year, however, where exactly this community had cared for and interred their dead was unknown.

Jan 15, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Allison Meier |Elena Goukassian |Nancy Kenney |Torey Akers

The World Monuments Fund’s (WMF) 2025 Watch list includes 25 sites, ranging from historic structures in Gaza to the Moon—marking the first time the initiative has highlighted a site in outer space. Released on 15 January, the list of threatened cultural heritage spans 29 countries on five continents, in addition to one celestial object.

Dec 20, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Allison Meier

In a brief yet prolific career that ended with his death at age 35 in 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark responded to the neglect of New York City’s urban environment with radical interventions, most famously colossal cuts in abandoned buildings. Much of his work was meant to be ephemeral, and little of it survives, especially in the places it was created. An exception is a small, rusted steel cage outside St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village.

Dec 19, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Andrew Pulver |Allison Meier |Dale Berning Sawa

London: pop goes the capital with culture of the last centuryThe pop culture outsiders of the tail end of the last century are being thrust into the limelight. As well as Tate Modern’s celebration of Leigh Bowery, the Hayward Gallery will host a retrospective of Linder Sterling (11 February-5 May), usually known just by her first name. Linder, who created the collaged cover of Buzzcocks’ single Orgasm Addict, uses photomontage and sculpture for her feminist polemics.

Dec 12, 2024 | mentalfloss.com | Allison Meier

These forgeries fooled the world’s top art experts and museums. Whether for monetary gain or thrill alone, history’s art forgers have fabricated lost pieces, made exacting copies of originals, and imagined whole new visions in the style of famed creators. There are so many examples of these deceptions that there’s a Museum of Art Fakes in Vienna, Austria, filled with duplicitous work.