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- Museums across the Middle East are under threat of bomb attacks.
- There will be 75 museums and biennial exhibitions to visit this spring.
- Diya Vij has been elected Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Live line. As war in the Middle East expands and the death toll continues to rise, museums in the region are also under threat. Iran began bombing the United Arab Emirates over the weekend, causing debris to fall on Saadiyat Island, home to Abu Dhabi’s cultural center. Louvre Abu Dhabi and other institutions, art daily Report. The museum is equipped with a fireproof gallery that doubles as a shelter in the event of an attack. However, the Jean Nouvel-designed building does not have an underground armored bomb shelter, raising concerns about possible damage to its collections, which include works of art on loan from the Louvre in Paris. Meanwhile, Qatar’s museums—especially Museum of Islamic Art and Qatar National Museum– has been closed as a precaution but has not indicated when it will reopen.
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oneThe LL road leads to Italy. art news Senior Editor Alex Greenberg A collection of 75 museum exhibitions and biennials this spring. from Venice Biennale Opening in May Raphael Retrospective exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Artand Michelangelo Sculpture displayed next to Rodin exist Louvre Italian art forms a clear through-line connecting this season’s events. This list is sure to keep art lovers busy – not to mention Italy lovers. This is for more art and more love.
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Dia Vigecurrently Vice President of Curatorial and Art Programs kinetic arthas been selected as New York City’s next Department of Culture (DCA) Commissioner. This high-profile show is one of the most important efforts in the city’s arts community, as DCA is the largest municipal funder of the arts in the United States. (Art News)
a newly owned RembrandtTitled Zechariah’s vision in the temple (1633) will be available on March 4th national museum, the agency announced today. Using advanced new technology, researchers were able to confirm that the painting was the work of the 17th-century Dutch master. (Le Monde and AFP)
this Los Angeles Art Fair Non-Profit Organization’s Position AmbersThe project, which connects U.S. and Mexican communities through art, was relocated at the last minute away from the gallery, near the coat check, before the fair’s official entrance. “We feel like we’re being censored, racially profiled and discriminated against,” said the Ambos founder and artist. Tanya Ageeniga . (The Art Newspaper)
Heavy snow destroys iconic buildings fly eye dome (Patented 1965) buckminster fuller Longhouse Sanctuary Sculpture Garden in East Hampton, New York. This futuristic geodesic structure is one of only five existing versions and was designed as a model for portable housing. (Art Network News)
In awards news, Foundation for Contemporary Art (FCA) $45,000 grants awarded to 24 artists, including Hong Kong-born artist Shirley Xie. elsewhere, Tokyo Art Space (TOKAS) honored Han Yishu and Yang 02 with the sixth Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA)with bonuses of $19,000 each, plus up to $12,700 in additional funding, and Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOT). (Asia Pacific Art)
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survive in america. exist American Art, cCritic Emily Watlington shows us the way to go this year Whitney Biennial, The exhibition looks at the “greater America” through artists who transcended strict national borders to places such as U.S.-occupied Okinawa, Vietnam, and Iraq. She observes how this timely exhibition transforms identity politics into an imperceptible set of infrastructural systems (i.e. systems of empire) all around us, which the artists generously translate into feeling. Playful irreverence is also part of the mix, creating “an emotional pulse that feels similar to online life, where images of genocide and cute animals appear in rapid succession and people try to stay sane by remembering that the two registers coexist,” Watlington writes. But the point of the play is in providing commentary on a massive scale. In private life, human beings tend to care for one another, and “extended and systematized, cruelty and dehumanization often ensue,” she writes. So how to survive? cooperate? revolution? Or, as Watling puts it, “agency.”
