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Smithsonian Told Staffer to Remove 'Unjust' From Show on Internment

01/09/2026

2025 was quite a year for the Smithsonian Institution, which found itself in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration early and often. Last year began with Trump calling for a purge of “anti-American ideology” from the institution’s 19 museums. …

Метки : смитсоновский институтадминистрация трампацензураяпонские американцыгражданские свободыискусство

Researchers Find 60,000-Year-Old Poisoned Arrowheads in Africa

01/09/2026

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads in South Africa. Their discovery, reported by Stockholm University in the journal Science Advances, is the earliest direct evidence of the use of poisoned hunting weapons …

Метки : история.археологияохотаисследованияюжная африкаяды

Scientists Extract DNA from Drawing That Could Connect to Leonardo da Vinci

01/09/2026

Scientists extracted DNA from a possible Leonardo da Vinci drawing that may provide genetic links to one of the most storied humans to walk the Earth. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper posted Tuesday in a preprint database, researchers from the Leonardo …

Метки : леонардо да винчиднкискусствоаутентификацияисследованияискусствоведение

Uffizi Staffers Protest Mass Layoff of Part-Time Workers

01/09/2026

Uffizi Staffers Protest Mass Layoff of Part-Time Workers Roughly one hundredUffizistaffers staged a demonstration in the courtyard of the venerable Florence institution on January 4, protesting an effective layoff of the museum’s casual workers spurred by a change in service …

Метки : уффиципротествременные работникиувольнениепрофсоюзкультурное наследие

Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Norval Morrisseau Estate Is Tossed Out

01/08/2026

A lawsuit that alleged sexual assault by the late artist Norval Morrisseau was tossed out by British Columbia’s Supreme Court this week, according to the Canadian Press. Filed against the artist’s estate, the lawsuit by Mark Anthony Jacobson claimed that …

Метки : искусствоновостинорвал морриссосудисксексуальное насилие

Elite Universities Suspend or Reduce Art History Graduate Admissions

01/08/2026

Amid widespread budget deficits, several top universities have suspended admissions to their art history graduate programs or cut the size of the cohorts they will admit, along with modifications to other humanities concentrations. Boston University, the University of Chicago, Harvard …

Метки : образованиеистория искусствааспирантурауниверситетысшабюджетные кризисы

Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale Names Artists for 2026 Edition

01/08/2026

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has announced the artists participating in the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, opening on January 30, in the JAX District, an industrial zone that has been converted into an arts complex in Diriyah, …

Метки : дирийябиенналесовременное искусствокультурное событиехудожникивыставка

Uffizi Workers Protest With Flags and Flares Against ‘Precarious Lives’

01/08/2026

Workers waving flags and holding flares staged a protest at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence behind a banner reading “Basta Vite Precarie” (No Move Precarious Lives). As reported by the Art Newspaper, the protest in the Piazzale degli Uffizi was …

Метки : протестуффицитрудовые условияпрофсоюзфлоренцияработники

Lost Archive Highlights a Growing Crisis in Media Art Preservation

01/08/2026

When the fire reached Diana Thater’s home in Altadena last January, there was no time for triage. As she and her husband, the artist T. Kelly Mason, evacuated ahead of the flames, Mason grabbed what he could carry: a server …

Метки : искусстводиана татерсохранениепожарлос-анджелесмедиаискусство

Venezuela’s Cultural Scene Looks On After Maduro Ouster

01/08/2026

In a historic military operation that flouted international law, the United States invaded the South American nation of Venezuela early Saturday morning, seizing the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, who will face federal charges in New …

Метки : венесуэлаискусствополитика#культурамадуротрамп

Franco Regime Sought to Censor Robert Motherwell Painting in Spain

01/07/2026

Longstanding questions about an episode surrounding a Robert Motherwell painting in Spain have finally been answered: the Franco regime really did try to censor the Abstract Expressionist’s work, proposing an altered title for one work with a name that explicitly …

Метки : искусствоцензурамазервеллиспанская республикавыставкаистория.

'Mona's Eyes' Cover, Featuring a Vermeer Painting, Generates Rage

01/07/2026

Mona’s Eyes, a recently published novel by Thomas Schlesser, has drawn widespread praise, leading Barnes & Noble to name it the book of the year for 2025. But it is also gaining less positive notice for a reason that has …

Метки : литератураискусствокнигирецензииспорыобщественное мнение

Amy Sillman Leaves Gladstone Gallery for David Zwirner

01/07/2026

David Zwirner Gallery now represents New York–based artist Amy Sillman. Sillman, whose colorful paintings and drawings expertly straddle the line between figuration and abstraction. She previously worked with Gladstone Gallery. Her first show there, “Mostly Drawing” in 2018, offered viewers …

Метки : искусствовыставкахудожникинью-йорксовременное искусствогалерея

NFT Paris cancels event with one-month notice

01/07/2026

NFT Paris, Europe’s biggest annual conference for the Web3, NFT, and digital ownership community, has been cancelled just a month before it was set to open at the Grande Halle de la Villette. The organizers said that current market conditions …

Метки : nftконференцияискусствоблокчейнцифровая собственностьрынок