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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Eddy Frankel |Tim Jonze |Charlotte Jansen |Oliver Wainwright |Evan Moffitt
Louise Bourgeois’s spider opens the museum (2000)Frances Morris, then head of displays“Louise Bourgeois symbolised what I wanted Tate Modern to be: a place where you would have extraordinary encounters with artists who weren’t in the canon. She proposed an installation with three towers for the Turbine Hall and we suggested also borrowing a small group of her spiders to put on the ramp down into the hall, to lure people in.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Dale Berning Sawa
Otobong Nkanga's boundary-breaking and prize-winning art is on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Two years ago, the artist Otobong Nkanga was announced as the 2025 winner of the Nasher Prize, honoring her work in sculpture. Credit... Nitashia Johnson for The New York Times This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.
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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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Dale Berning Sawa
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Dale Berning Sawa
Aldi recently launched the new colour range of its budget cast-iron casserole dishes, an annual occurrence since at least 2015. While other retailers including Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Argos and John Lewis also stock cheap cast-iron, Aldi’s, at £19.99, is by far the cheapest. It’s also only available “while stocks last”. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Gareth Harris |Martin Bailey
Tate is reportedly poised to cut 7% of its workforce as part of an institution-wide push to reduce costs. Approximately 40 roles have been cut via recruitment freezes, targeted restructures and voluntary exits. This follows the publication on 3 December 2024 of its 2023-2024 annual report and accounts, which stated that for 2024-2025 the museum group would be operating on a deficit budget. In January, when asked for the exact amount of this deficit, a spokesperson declined to answer.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Gareth Harris |Ben Luke |Julia Michalska
The very first work Tacita Dean saw of Cy Twombly’s was a collage and watercolour on paper, Pan (1975), that greeted visitors to the US artist’s retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1987. Dean remembers the moment clearly. She was an undergraduate at Falmouth School of Art. A lecturer had suggested she look at this artist called Cy Twombly, who at that point was not that well known in the UK. She got on a train to London, walked into the gallery, and everything changed.
