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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Eddy Frankel |Kabir Jhala |Nancy Kenney |Lisa Movius
The future looks an awful lot like the past in Ho Tzu Nyen’s commission for the 110-metre facade of the M+ museum (22 March-29 June). Night Charades, which uses cutting-edge technology to reimagine famous scenes from the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema from the 1980s and 1990s, is filled with references to works by celebrated filmmakers such as John Woo, Wong Kar-wai and Tsui Hark.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Victoria Stapley-Brown |Benjamin Sutton |Nancy Kenney
An official portrait of Donald Trump has been removed from the Colorado Capitol building following social media complaints from the president claiming his likeness had been “purposefully distorted”. The General Assembly’s bipartisan executive committee signed a directive empowering staff to take the painting down on the evening of 24 March, according to the Denver Post . The portrait, completed by the Colorado Springs-based artist Sarah Boardman in 2019, was commissioned during Trump’s first term.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Nancy Kenney |Gareth Harris
US President Donald Trump's administration is making deep cuts at the National Park Service (NPS), and after firing around 1,000 of its employees last month the White House is now moving to shutter 34 NPS offices across the country by cancelling their leases. Those facilities support visitor centres, law enforcement units, operations staff, museums and climate-controlled artefact storage for national parks from Alaska to Texas and Florida.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Benjamin Sutton |Nancy Kenney |Victoria Stapley-Brown
The Fine Art Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) and the city's Asian Art Museum could see layoffs and reduced public hours as a result of a major cut in the city’s budget. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Aidin Vaziri and Tony Bravo reported last week that FAMSF—which oversees the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor museum—has proposed eliminating 23 of its 99 city-funded positions and shuttering the two museums’ doors on Tuesdays.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Benjamin Sutton |Helen Stoilas |Nancy Kenney
Florida’s Norton Museum of Art has launched a new partnership with Chanel, which will sponsor three of the West Palm Beach museum’s resident artists this year. The luxury fashion brand will also sponsor a party for the painter Shara Hughes, who completed her residency at the Norton earlier this month, as well as an exhibition of her paintings, ceramics and works on paper at the museum, opening in November.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett |Nancy Kenney |Gareth Harris |James Imam
A new National Trust paint archive will, for the first time, bring together thousands of historic paint samples in a UK facility with a laboratory and archive and staffed by the trust’s first in-house heritage scientist. With funding awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the archive will be established over the next two years at the Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio at Knole in Kent.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Tim Schneider |Henrietta Bentall |Ben Luke |Nancy Kenney
Alice Coltrane, Monument EternalHammer MuseumUNTIL 4 MAY“When I listen to her music, I feel like I’m being healed at a cellular level,” the curator Erin Christovale says of the late Alice Coltrane (1937-2007). This fortifying power looms large in the legacy of Coltrane, who became both a pioneer of spirituality-driven jazz and a devotional leader in the Vedic faith.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Jori Finkel |Nancy Kenney |Benjamin Sutton
The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles had big plans for the second weekend in January: a large public celebration for the opening of its second PST Art show, featuring a welcoming ceremony by Native Americans from four tribes. Instead, the raging Palisades fire moved so quickly toward the campus that the museum immediately shut down. The show did not open for another two weeks.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Allison Meier |Tom Seymour |Nancy Kenney
The legacy of slavery has always been entwined with the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s 1,000-acre Tennessee plantation. There, about ten miles north-east of downtown Nashville, remnants of the quarters formerly inhabited by people enslaved by the seventh US president have been excavated, and artefacts of their daily lives have been unearthed—from sewing thimbles to toy marbles. Until last year, however, where exactly this community had cared for and interred their dead was unknown.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas |Gareth Harris |Claire Voon |Nancy Kenney
The words “transgender” and “queer” were on Thursday removed from a National Park Service (NPS) web page about the Stonewall National Monument, a historic site in New York’s West Village dedicated to the gay rights movement. The NPS, which oversees the national monument, previously stated on this page that “before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.
