[ad_1] A new report published by the Cultural Policy Unit—an independent UK think tank—says that introducing admission charges for international visitors at UK national museums would be “logistically complex as well as ideologically at odds with the global collections that the UK has accumulated”.Last July Mark Jones, the former interim director of the British Museum, said that an admission fee of £20 should be introduced for overseas visitors. “It would make sense for us to charge overseas visitors for admission to museums as they charge us when we visit their museums. The biggest visitor attractions in Britain are our great…
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[ad_1] Beware: A colossal spider now guards a large patch of dense Thai woodland. The iconic Louise Bourgeoise sculpture, Maman, is joined by works by Richard Long, Elmgreen and Dragset at Khao Yai Art Forest, an ambitious new 161-acre art destination a three-hour drive from Bangkok. The art forest, located nea Khao Yai National Park, aims to create a healing experience blending art and nature. It is the brainchild of philanthropist and art patron Marisa Chearavanont, who has become one of the driving forces of Thailand’s vibrant art scene in recent years. Along with Kunsthalle Bangkok, a new art institution…
[ad_1] I have this vague, flickering memory of neon orange billowing impossibly through threadbare trees like the penumbric trails of large, unseasonal fireflies. I would’ve been seven years old when the late Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed “The Gates” — 7,503 16-foot gates adorned with fabric flowing along 23 miles of walkways — for 16 days in Central Park in 2005. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City, a pay-what-you-wish exhibition at the Shed, memorializes the temporary project — 26 years in the making — on its 20th anniversary. It consists of preparatory drawings and collages, video interviews…
[ad_1] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ACLU SUES NEA OVER GENDER CLAUSE. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), claiming that its new policy requiring that its funding applicants do not “promote gender ideology” will limit what kinds of works can be shown, reports Alex Greenberger for ARTnews. On Thursday, the ACLU’s Rhode Island offshoot filed a lawsuit on behalf of several theaters, which said that the policy adopted after President Donald Trump’s January executive order was an “unlawful and unconstitutional exercise of executive power…
[ad_1] ArtOlivia HornPortrait of Alfie Caine with, from left to right, Golden Hills, 2025; Nine Legs, 2025; and Chalk Horse, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Bassett. Courtesy of the artist and Margot Samel, NYC.Some boys collect Hot Wheels, some collect comic books. Alfie Caine collected miniature chairs. When the rising painter was growing up in London, he funneled a precocious love of furniture into acquiring dollhouse-sized models of iconic designs, like the Prouvé Standard Chair and the Eames LCW Lounge. He arranged them into imagined rooms on shelves in his bedroom—foreshadowing the pristine, just-so interiors that would later become the focus…
[ad_1] President Emmanuel Macron of France was not happy about a recent exhibition at an art centre on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe that showed him beheaded with his neck dripping in blood.The gory piece was included in the exhibition Exposé.e.s au chlordécone (exposed to chlordecone), which opened in January at the Centre des Arts in Pointe-à-Pitre. According to local press, the Kolèktif Rézistans collective, a trio of artists, organised the headline-hitting exhibition, which the French government considers “an incitement to violence”.The French newspaper Midi Libre says that an artist called Blow made the work, which raises concerns about…
[ad_1] A version of this article originally appeared in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy. Artnet News Pro members get exclusive access—subscribe now to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Friday. Though the sun was out all week in London during the first marquee auctions of the year, a chill in the market persists. Here are the top takeaways. (Keep your jacket on.) Size Matters Christie’s more than doubled its rival Sotheby’s total across its evening sales. Sotheby’s had a much smaller offering, and some have speculated that…
[ad_1] The Corning Museum of Glass selected New Zealand-based artist Te Rongo Kirkwood as the winner of the 38th Rakow Commission. Kirkwood is known for her vibrant and evocative works of kiln-formed glass that explore themes of her Māori, English, and Scottish heritage and identity.The commissioned installation, The Seer, the Seen, the Seeing, is comprised of three main elements: a kākahu (cloak), made of kiln-formed glass and woven fibers; a puru hau (sacred ritual vessel) in blown glass; and a film. The cloak and vessel are key components of a filmed ceremony centering Kirkwood and her father, set against the…
[ad_1] Ricardo Scofidio, an architect who helped reshape the museum landscape in the US, died on Thursday at 89. His death was announced by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the firm he founded with his wife Elizabeth Diller in 1997. Working alongside Diller and firm partner Charles Renfro, Scofidio worked on many US museum projects, from the Museum of Modern Art‘s 2019 expansion to a building for the Broad, the Los Angeles private museum of collectors Eli and Edythe Broad. The firm’s various projects included any number of projects that were not museums: Lincoln Center, redesigned with new outdoor spaces at…
[ad_1] Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton will curate an exhibition showcasing the work of British artist and designer Marianna Kennedy at Christie’s Paris. Organized by PLVR Zurich, the show will take place from May 5th to 11th. The exhibition, “Supersonic Mediaeval,” will highlight Kennedy’s innovative use of materials like resin, wood, bronze, and Murano glass and emphasize the influence of London’s Spitalfields neighborhood on her career. It will showcase a collection of the artist’s most significant works, notably her carved and gilded mirrors, which she began creating in 2006.“Marianna’s work has always sprung from and lived in, for me, a particularly…