New Jersey Pulls Funding for Centre Pompidou Satellite, Stonewall Monument Unveiled, Teddy Roosevelt’s Stolen Pocket Watch Returned, and More: Morning Links for July 1, 2024
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WARHOL FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES SPRING 2024 GRANTEES
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on June 27 announced the forty-nine recipients of its spring 2024 grants. The foundation will award more than $4 million to visual arts organizations and institutions dispersed across nineteen US states and the District of Columbia as well as one in South Africa. Included among the recipients are small […]
MANIFESTA 15 REVEALS PROGRAM AND PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
The organizers of Manifesta have announced the program and named the eighty-five artists and collectives participating in the peripatetic biennial’s fifteenth iteration, set to take place in Barcelona September 8–November 24. The event will investigate the region’s built and natural environs and their relation to one another and to the world at large, with a […]
SUPREME COURT REJECTS PURDUE PHARMA BANKRUPTCY DEAL
The Supreme Court on June 27 voted 5-4 to reject a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement plan. The deal would have shielded members of the Sackler family who owned the beleaguered drug maker from liability regarding civil claims connected to the company’s aggressive marketing of the powerful opioid OxyContin. The family members—whose name long adorned the walls of […]
ANTON VAN DALEN (1938-2024)
Dutch-born artist Anton van Dalen, who for more than fifty years chronicled New York’s East Village and its wild denizens, from people to pigeons—a particular passion—died at his home on June 25. He was eighty-six. His gallery, P.P.O.W, confirmed that he died of natural causes. Working in a Surrealistic style at a time when more […]
Jacqueline de Jong, Painter Who Expanded the Possibilities of Her Medium, Dies at 85
Jacqueline de Jong, a Dutch painter who for six decades remained committed to figuration, even when the art establishment did not value it highly, died on Saturday in Amsterdam following a short illness. She was 85. References: this article is based on content originally published by Alex Greenberger on ARTnew. You can read the full […]
Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s Surrealist Film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ Guest Stars on ‘The Bear’
Many things get sliced in full view of the camera on The Bear, an FX TV series set at a Chicago restaurant, but the newly released third season features a rather unusual one: a human eyeball. References: this article is based on content originally published by Alex Greenberger on ARTnew. You can read the full […]
John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art
A generative art series by Irish artist John Gerrard is helping restore Ireland’s temperate rainforest. Hosted by Feral File, an online platform for digital art founded in 2020, the series, titled “crystalline work,” offers dozens of collectable digital works a day for the next 12 months. It went public on June 18. References: this article […]
London’s V&A Museum Is Set to Open Taylor Swift Exhibition
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)in London has announced a exhibition of all things Taylor Swift—from dresses and cowboy boots to awards and unseen tidbits from her personal archive. It is set to open on July 27, according the Independent. References: this article is based on content originally published by Daniel Cassady on ARTnew. You can […]
1,500-Year-Old Christian Ivory Box With Rare Engravings Found in Ancient Austrian Church
Archaeologists excavating an ancient hilltop settlement in southern Austria discovered the remains of a richly decorated ivory box that is some 1,500 years oldthe first such artifact to be found in an archaeological context in the country. The relic was unearthed in an early Christian church, located on the hill, known as the Burgbichl, in […]