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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

Guggenheim Bilbao Scraps Urdaibai Expansion After Environmental Backlash

12/18/2025

Plans to build a €100 million satellite of the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain’s protected Urdaibai biosphere reserve have been abandoned after nearly two decades of legal challenges and escalating local opposition. The museum’s board of trustees — which includes the …

Метки : гуггенхеймурдайбайэкологияпротестмузейиспания

Louvre Temporarily Closes as Employees Protest Working Conditions

12/16/2025

Louvre Temporarily Closes as Employees Protest Working Conditions TheLouvreclosed its doors to visitors on Monday, December 15, as staffersstruckin protest of what they have characterized as intolerable working conditions at theParisinstitution. TheNew York Timesreports that about four hundred of the …

Метки : луврпротестусловия трудаискусствофранциязабастовка

Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem Reopens

12/16/2025

Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, which closed following the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, has reopened as a “cultural platform that carries the narrative of Palestine.” The British street artist opened the guesthouse …

Метки : banksyвифлеемпалестинская культураискусствопротестобщество

Protests as New School Threatens Severe Cuts to Staffing and Programs

12/12/2025

As part of a radical “restructuring” to address a $48 million deficit, New York’s New School for Social Research is offering voluntary severance programs to a large group of faculty and staff. A December 3 email laying out the terms …

Метки : новая школареструктуризациясокращение преподавателейпротесткризис образованияфинансирование

The Defining Artworks of 2025

12/08/2025

By some measures, democracy is in downward decline in quite a few countries across the world, while censorship is only increasing. (A coincidence? Hardly.) But even with so much valid concern about the fragility of the world order more broadly, …

Метки : демократияцензураискусствопротестправа человекатрансгендерные права

Greta Thunberg Banned From Venice After Dyeing Canal Green

11/27/2025

Greta Thunberg and several members of the Extinction Rebellion environmental group turned Venice’s Grand Canal bright green on Monday to protest what they view as the world’s slow progress in transitioning away from fossil fuels.They dropped non-toxic fluorescein dye into …

Метки : экологияпротестклиматические изменениявенецияактивизмфлуоресцентный краситель

French Art World Up In Arms Over Proposal to Impose New Taxes on Art

11/15/2025

In an attempt to increase revenue, two French parliamentarians are proposing that the government put in place a new tax regime on art in its 2026 budget. The French art world has risen up to oppose it, including issuing a …

Метки : искусствоналогифранция#культураart baselпротест

Museum of West African Art Opening Delayed by Protesters

11/11/2025

Museum of West African Art Opening Delayed by Protesters The opening of theMuseum of West African Art(MOWAA) inBenin City, Nigeria, originally slated for November 11, has been postponed after a group of some twenty protesters disrupted a preview event on …

Метки : нигерия#культурапротестмузейсанкцииискусство

Judson Memorial Church Marks 55th Anniversary of ‘People’s Flag Show’

11/10/2025

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Exactly 55 years ago this week, three artists—Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche, and Jon …

Метки : искусствовыставкапротестсвобода выраженияистория.#культура

Just Stop Oil Activists Who Dyed Stonehenge Found Not Guilty

11/04/2025

After dyeing Stonehenge in bright orange last June, three climate activists with Just Stop oil have been found not guilty of criminal damage. On Friday, October 31, a Salisbury crown court jury acquitted Luke Watson, Rajan Naidu, and Niamh Lynch. …

Метки : активизмстоунхенджjust stop oilсвобода словапротестправо человека

Climate Activist Who Targeted Degas Sculptures Sentenced to 18 Months

11/04/2025

Timothy Martin, a climate activist who smeared paint on a glass vitrine protecting an Edgar Degas sculpture in 2023, was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week. Martin had been found guilty of conspiracy and injury to government property …

Метки : климатический активистпротесттюремное заключениесвобода словаискусстводега

Celebs Turn Out in Force for LACMA Gala

11/03/2025

The Headlines STARS ALIGN. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) celebrated its 14th annual Art+Film Gala on November 1, drawing nearly 600 big names from the worlds of art, film, fashion, and entertainment, as ARTnews reports. This year’s …

Метки : искусствокиноблаготворительностьклиматпротестисламское искусство

Flemish Government’s Plan to Dissolve M HKA Sparks Outrage

10/14/2025

Flemish Government’s Plan to Dissolve M HKA Sparks Outrage The announcement last week by the Government of Flanders that it planned to “reform the landscape of its own museums and the visual arts sector” and strip Antwerp’s Museum of Modern …

Метки : искусство#культурамузейфландрияпротестm hka