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Sorry, not sorry. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed further light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) Leaders decide to cancel Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez’s anti-ICE exhibit. Adam Schrader reports Urgent matter Communications obtained through a public records request show that school President Harrison Keller and Provost Michael McPherson initially thought they could handle “any roar coming from Austin about show cancellations” and initially considered removing only some of the productions. Instead, they ultimately chose to withdraw the exhibition from the university entirely. College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD)The move sparked student protests and accusations of censorship. art news This follows reports that leaked transcripts of a faculty meeting suggested the decision was an “institutional directive” amid concerns that the university could be targeted by elected officials. In a particularly grim calculation, CVAD director Karen Hutzel advised gallery director Stefanie Dlugosz-Action on how to break the news to artists, suggesting a “personalized greeting that doesn’t express regret or apology.”
Billions of dollars in sales. annual Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report The market appears to be recovering, with signs of moderate growth, according to reports art news’ Daniel Cassady. According to data compiled by economists, global sales will reach a sizeable $59.6 billion in 2025 Claire McAndrew of Art Economics. Although the market has still not recovered to its 2022 peak, it is up 4% from the previous year. Auctions rebounded strongly, while galleries continued to lag. Much of the growth has been driven by modest trophy sales by established artists, especially in New York. For living artists, the news was less encouraging: the postwar and contemporary art category fell 2%, while Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art was up 47%, and Old Master art was up 30%.
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A missing page from a medieval manuscript that included a work by a Greek mathematician Archimedes Found in France Blois Museum of Fine Arts. (“Scientific American”)
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MPs and academics say it is immoral and sacrilegious for British museums to collect human remains. (Art News)
artist Lauren Halsey A monumental sculpture park opened in South Central Los Angeles at the corner of West Street and 76th Street titled “Sister Dreamer Lauren Halsey’s Architectural Ode to the Prosperity and Spendthrift of South Central Los Angeles”th street. (Los Angeles Times)
Vancouver real estate developer and philanthropist Bob Rainey and his family donated 24 works by four artists to the foundation National Gallery of Canada (NGC). they include Kerry James Marshall, Christopher Williams, Brian Jungenand Yin Zhenmei. (Press release)
this Old Master Gallery Dresden won this year’s Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund (TMRF)to resume work for wild boar hunting (1616-18) by Peter Paul Rubens. (The Art Newspaper)
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Next coin. Who inherits an artist’s legacy when there is no will, estranged family, or the institutions and advocates who helped place the work into art history? The New York Times tells the story of an American photographer Mike DeFarmerhe gave up his family during his lifetime (1884-1959). Decades later, starting in the 1970s, his stark portraits won critical acclaim and brought significant market value. At this moment, distant relatives intervened and sued Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Taking back much of his life’s work. The museum argued that it had spent “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to restore and preserve the fragile negatives, many of which had deteriorated. Ultimately, the court sided with DiFarmer’s cousins, granting them archival rights, copyrights and rights to the artist’s estate. How they will care for it — and what DiFarmer himself might think — remains an open question.
