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4 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 | Aimee Dawson |Emily Sharpe |Victoria Stapley-Brown
Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, carnelian falcon pendant jewelleryIn ancient Egyptian culture, amulets such as these were imbued with specific meanings relating to their form and believed to hold magical properties when worn; they were even woven into mummy wrappings to protect the dead in the afterlife. These carnelian gemstones are carved into the shape of falcons, evoking Horus, the god of sky, war, hunting and kingship who was commonly associated with healing and protection.
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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 | Benjamin Sutton |Jori Finkel |Victoria Stapley-Brown |Sarah Belmont
Sandra Jackson-Dumont will leave her role as the director and chief executive of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles at the end of March after just over five years in the role. The museum, co-founded by the Star Wars film-maker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, the co-chief executive of the asset management firm Ariel Investments, has a budget of around $1bn and has been under construction since March 2018. It is currently expected to open in 2026.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | J. S. Marcus |J.S. Marcus |Victoria Stapley-Brown |Chloë Ashby |David D'Arcy
The Austrian artist Egon Schiele was only 28 when he died in 1918, but he left behind about 400 paintings and around 3,000 works on paper—more than many artists produce in a lifetime twice as long. The art world has tried to make sense of this prolific output by parsing a scant decade of activity into distinct periods.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Victoria Stapley-Brown |Elena Goukassian
A North American tour of Roman sculptures from the Torlonia Collection—considered to be the finest group of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands—begins on 15 March at the Art Institute of Chicago, marking the first time these works have been shown outside of Europe.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Eddy Frankel |Victoria Stapley-Brown |Hannah Clugston
Linder saw the path that society had laid out before her and she said, no thanks, not for me. Despite the liberation promised by the swinging sixties and the sexual revolution, post-war Britain was still a conservative, traditional place, and the British artist’s future as a northern working-class woman (she was born in Liverpool in 1954) was clear: housework, child-rearing, home-making and a long, slow, dull trudge towards the grave. That was not to be Linder’s lot.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Victoria Stapley-Brown |Hilarie M. Sheets |Ben Luke |Gareth Harris
The 12th edition of the Site Santa Fe International biennial, titled Once Within a Time and opening on 27 June, will include over 300 works by more than 70 historical and contemporary artists—half of whom have been commissioned to conceive works specifically for the exhibition by the curator Cecilia Alemani.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alexander Morrison |Victoria Stapley-Brown |Federico Florian |Elena Goukassian
An ambitious new private museum has opened in the city of Trondheim on the western coast of Norway with a mission to boost access to art locally, address gender inequality in the nation’s collections and add to the region’s appeal as a cultural destination. The new museum, called PoMo (short for Post Office Modern), is housed over five floors and more than 4,000 sq. m in the city’s Art Nouveau former post office.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Barbara Reina |Annabel Keenan |Victoria Stapley-Brown
In the northern Berkshires of western Massachusetts, plans are in the works to create an outdoor path to the arts—a 9.3-mile bicycling and pedestrian route with access to the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art, Mass Moca, the Adams Theater, art galleries, hotels and other cultural and historic destinations.
