Elena Goukassian, The Art Newspaper Journalist Profile

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Democratic lawmakers urge J.D. Vance to save the Smithsonian from Trump

5 days ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian

Four members of the US House of Representatives have sent a letter to J.D. Vance, imploring the vice-president to reject President Donald Trump’s plan to overhaul the Smithsonian Institution.
Pierre Terjanian named next director of MFA Boston

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Benjamin Sutton |Gareth Harris

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) has picked its new director, Pierre Terjanian. He will step up to the role on 1 July, having served as chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024. Terjanian succeeds outgoing director Matthew Teitelbaum, who is retiring this summer after ten years leading the MFA—the 83rd-most-visited art museum in the world and ninth-most-visited in the US, according to The Art Newspaper’s most recent attendance-figure survey.
Trump administration will use humanities grant money to build ‘Garden of American Heroes’

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian

One week after abruptly cancelling grants worth tens of millions of dollars that had been awarded to organisations large and small across the US, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is now redirecting those funds to building one of President Donald Trump’s pet projects, the so-called “National Garden of American Heroes”.
Le Broad pose la première pierre de son extension

1 week ago | artnewspaper.fr | Elena Goukassian

Le Broad Museum de Los Angeles a lancé le 9 avril son projet d’agrandissement, dont le budget s’élève à 100 millions de dollars. La superficie doit augmenter de 5 100 mètres carrés, soit 70 % d’espaces supplémentaires. Conçue par le cabinet d’architecture Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS + R), qui a créé le bâtiment original du musée en 2015, cette extension devrait ouvrir en 2028, juste à temps pour les Jeux olympiques d’été à Los Angeles.
The Broad breaks ground on its $100m expansion

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Benjamin Sutton |Jori Finkel

The Broad museum in Los Angeles has broken ground on its $100m, 550,000 sq. ft expansion project, which will increase its gallery space by 70%. Designed by the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), which created the museum’s original building in 2015, the expansion is scheduled to open in 2028—just in time for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Climate activist found guilty of 'defacing' Degas sculpture at US National Gallery of Art

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Tom Seymour |Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian

A climate activist who smeared red and black paint on the pedestal and enclosure of an Edgar Degas ballerina sculpture in 2023 was found guilty on Tuesday (8 April) of “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States” by a federal jury.
Did Thomas Kinkade secretly make good art? A new film investigates

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian

“Thomas Kinkade had a quite outsize cultural impact with really bad art,” says the Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight in a new documentary film about the painter. “I mean, really, really, really bad art.”The writer Susan Orlean, who profiled the self-styled “painter of light” for The New Yorker in 2001 , has a slightly more nuanced take.
Fréquentation : notre classement des musées les plus visités au monde en 2024

3 weeks ago | artnewspaper.fr | Lee Cheshire |Elena Goukassian

La lente remontée après les confinements imposés par la pandémie de Covid-19 est terminée. Les musées sont maintenant revenus à ce que nous pourrions considérer comme leur « niveau naturel », où le nombre de visiteurs est déterminé par des facteurs tels que la popularité de la programmation, les contraintes physiques ou des tendances plus larges. Nous commençons à nouveau à voir les chiffres augmenter ou diminuer légèrement chaque année, tout en restant généralement dans une fourchette cohérente.
Exclusive | The world's most visited museums 2024: normality returns-for some

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Elena Goukassian |Emily Sharpe |José Da Silva

Many museums lost visitors in 2024—and that is a good thing. Why? Because it shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and now museums are back at what we might consider their “natural level”, where visitor numbers are determined by factors such as the popularity of the programme, physical constraints or wider trends. We are once again starting to see numbers rise or fall by small amounts each year, but generally staying within a consistent range.
Princeton University Art Museum to open in brand-new building on 31 October

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Claire Voon |Catherine Hickley

The Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey has revealed that, after ten years of planning and construction, its new home will finally open to the public on 31 October. Its new 146,000-sq.-ft home, which doubles the museum’s former space (demolished in 2021), will host a 24-hour community open house to celebrate.

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