Dale Berning Sawa

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa

Ask any beleaguered post-Covid museum director what they need right now, and they will likely be quite blunt. They need visitors to come back and staff to stick around. They also need a functioning building with the funds to maintain it, and as they are museum directors, they want that building to be beautiful. And they need tools for wrangling the complexities of the world on their doorstep. As it turns out, what many mean when they say all this is: we need Annabelle Selldorf.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa

At the end of 2024, between convening a football shootout against Cristiano Ronaldo and giving 2,000 amputees new prosthetic legs, MrBeast—the world’s biggest YouTuber by quite some margin—took a trip to the Giza Plateau. In a video titled “I Spent 100 Hours Inside The Pyramids!”, the man also known as Jimmy Donaldson stands atop a sand-hued stone staircase and, as usual, starts yelling.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Philippe Regnier |Gareth Harris |Anna Sansom

When Paris’s public museums published their annual visitor figures in January, it was another bright day for cultural outreach—but a bit too bright for some. “8.7 million entries to the Louvre, 4.9 to Orsay and the Orangerie, 3.2 to Pompidou,” wrote one journalist. “Are Parisian museums overheating?”Pundits have been quick to make the connection between over-tourism in the Calanques national park, or Venice, or Rome, or Amsterdam, and the high museum attendance in the French capital.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Chloë Ashby |Sebastian Smee |Karen Chernick

If you thought Henri Matisse an art-world staple—a true incontournable—his work entering the public domain in 2025 is only set to cement that ubiquity. He is already “everywhere”, as Charlotte Barat-Mabille, the curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, puts it. “Especially since the paper cutouts, our visual culture has been steeped in his aesthetic, to the point where, today, we don’t even realise that Matisse is at the origin of that,” Barat-Mabille says.

2 months ago | msn.com | Dale Berning Sawa

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