Joe Ware

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Annabel Keenan |John-Paul Stonard |Joe Ware |Anne Kraybill

Art Jameel, the independent art organisation in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, is centring sustainability in its operations and programming and leading a push for less stringent conservation standards in the cultural sector. Historically set by institutions in North America and Northern Europe, these standards can require significant energy consumption to maintain and are exacerbating inequity among institutions that cannot comply, primarily those in the Global South.

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Bendor Grosvenor |Gareth Harris |Joe Ware

The British campaign group Just Stop Oil, famed for splashing soup across some of the world’s most celebrated works of art, is now pivoting into the world of gastronomy. After recently announcing an end to its protests, the group now plans to publish a cookery book. The book, Making a Bigger Splash: Soups, has been written by two of the group’s organisers, Anne Carotte and Cory Ander.

4 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Joe Ware |Gareth Harris

Museum managers will be breathing a sigh of relief at the news that Just Stop Oil are hanging up their high viz jackets and putting away their soup cans, now that their primary campaign demand has been adopted as UK government policy. The group has made headlines around the world for throwing tomato soup at Van Gough’s Sunflowers, chucking orange cornflour at Stonehenge and supergluing themselves to various works of art, including John Constable’s The Hay Wain at The National Gallery.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Theo Belci |Torey Akers |Joe Ware

A member of a theft ring that stole numerous objects—including works by Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock—from museums over a 20-year span was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday (13 March). Thomas Trotta is the fourth person sentenced out of nine total who have been charged in relation to the heists. He previously pleaded guilty to one count of theft of major artwork.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Barbara Reina |Helen Stoilas |Joe Ware

Ohan Breiding: Belly of a Glacier, an experimental film and photographic installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass Moca), reflects memories literally frozen in time. In collaboration with the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), the exhibition (until 14 December) is an intimate portrait of Switzerland’s Rhône Glacier, which scientists predict will be gone by the year 2050, melting prematurely due to climate change.