Torey Akers

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers

The street where the renowned abstract painter Alma Thomas (1891-1978) lived for most of her life now bears her name. The block of 15th Street NW in Washington, DC where Thomas grew up—in the house at number 1530—is now “Alma Thomas Way” following a ceremony helmed by District Councilmembers Christina Henderson and Brooke Pinto, who introduced the bill advocating for the new street title.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers

Hollyhock House, a historic Frank Lloyd Wright building in Los Angeles, has narrowly avoided losing its status as a Unesco World Heritage site. Maintaining the designation, which was originally bestowed in 2019, usually requires the employment of four dedicated full-time staff members. Hollyhock House currently has two filled positions and two vacant ones. A draft city budget proposal had threatened to cut three of these positions, leaving just one staff member at the site.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers

Much of the ground floor and lower level interiors of Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum of American Art building at 945 Madison Avenue—which Sotheby's bought in 2023 for a reported $100m—has been designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC).

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, working with the Manhattan District Attorney's office, handed over three ancient artefacts that have been in its collection for decades so they could be transferred to the Iraqi government. The objects, collectively valued at $500,000, were linked to various investigations into criminal looting networks, including one involving the notorious British antiquities dealer Robin Symes, a suspected smuggler who died in 2023.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers

The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the Oregon Council for the Humanities have filed a federal lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in an effort to reverse funding cuts and revoked National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants.