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Streep digs deeper. actor Meryl Streep Has made a seven-figure donation to the organization National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) According to reports, in Washington, D.C. Art Network News. As a token of appreciation, she received her own eponymous Educator Award in her honor, and the donation (an unspecified amount) will be used to fund storytelling projects and digital programming. Streep’s donation to the nomadic digital-first museum “reflects her enduring belief in the power of amplifying women’s voices,” the museum said in its statement. NWHM helped build the upcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museumthrough a bipartisan congressional committee, lawmakers have called for “anti-transgender provisions” to be added to the project, although its actual location on the National Mall remains unknown. “History is shaped not only by those who make it, but by those who ensure it is remembered,” Streep said in making the announcement.
number one fan. this Musée d’Orsay A wonderful collection of 17 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings were reportedly received, all done on fans le figaro. Artists such as Pissarro, Gauguin, Degasand Toulouse-Lautrec is one of the famous people who tried painting on fans. On March 24, in celebration of its 40th anniversary, the museum will display these recently acquired, fragile works for three months. Kan, the Hong Kong collector who donated the collection, said she was struck by the “extraordinary beauty” of fan paintings throughout art history and around the world, sparking a lifelong passion that was not limited to the French Impressionists. “I love the fact that Impressionism had Asian influences,” she adds.
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Helen Legg will be the next director Royal College of Art London. Current Director Tate LiverpoolLegg will begin her new job in June, where she will be responsible for the institution’s exhibitions, collections and public programs. (The Art Newspaper)
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pop culture Jim Irsay Series Four auctions at Christie’s New York raised a total of $94.5 million, with fans coming to admire Kurt Cobain’s guitar, Jerry Garcia’s “Tiger” and John Lennon’s piano from “Sgt. Pepper,” among others. White Glove sales totaled almost four times the lowest estimate and set 28 world records. (Art News)
The pioneering 19th-century British paleontologist admits: ‘Fossils make me sick’ Mary Anningin a signed letter that will be auctioned at Bonhams in London. In fact, Anning had reason to be jaded: Despite her significant contributions to the field, she was poor and mostly ignored by the male-dominated scientific establishment. (The Times)
this Glasgow International Airport The Biennale has announced the full schedule for its 11th edition, which will be held from June 5 to 21. Helen Nisbet. (Art Review)
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dig this. Camille Henro She hasn’t made a new film in about a decade, but this week she makes a grand return to the media, premiering in blood vessels (2026) On reopening of new museum, ‘worth the wait’, writes american artEmily Watlington. The 35-minute film, dubbed a “classic” by critics, will tour Europe, but Henro tells us more about it first in a must-read interview, revealing how her experiences raising children and “everyday life in the reality of the climate crisis” inspired the film. While reading bedtime stories to children about animals that are actually endangered, “I was fascinated by the cognitive dissonance between all the representations of animals that was everywhere in childhood, but that disappears completely for most adults as we get older,” Henrot said. As for our environment being “on the brink of destruction” and the accompanying guilt, often stemming from the act of having children, she later concluded: “Society likes to sweep these unresolved issues under the rug, and that’s what I like to dig into.”
