David Clack

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |Julia Michalska |David Clack |Alexander Morrison

In two-and-a-half months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, a series of executive orders and other initiatives have attempted systematically to eliminate and defund some of the federal agencies responsible for the distribution of federal money to museums, libraries and other organisations.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack

Ed Atkins, born in Oxford, UK, in 1982, is best known for exploring the strange but endlessly rich space between the digital world and human experience and emotion. He has taken an unorthodox approach to software and hardware, “misusing” them, as he puts it, to produce videos and animations that reflect on technologies critically and poetically, testing their relationship with the messy world of physicality and feeling.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska |Alexander Morrison

The Art Newspaper’s annual report on museum visitor figures is out and shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and museums are back at what we might consider their “natural level”. Host Ben Luke talks to the co-editor of our report, Lee Cheshire, about what that means, and who were last year’s big winners and losers.

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Ben Luke |David Clack |Julia Michalska

The critically acclaimed Yoko Ono retrospective that generated large crowds at Tate Modern last year will open in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, its only presentation in the US. The show, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, spans 70 years of Ono’s career from her early Fluxus pieces and conceptual works to more recent participatory installations, bringing together more than 200 objects.

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Ben Luke |Benjamin Sutton |David Clack

Forgery scandals surrounding the work of Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007) continue with a lawsuit against the artist’s estate claiming it misleadingly implied that a Calgary gallery was peddling fakes. EA Studios filed its defamation and breach-of-contract suit against Morrisseau’s estate and its director, Cory Dingle, earlier this month in Alberta’s Superior Trial Court.