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UK government announces new laws to protect controversial historic monuments from ‘woke worthies and baying mobs’

January 18, 2021 ArtMovez

The UK government has announced new laws aimed at safeguarding historic monuments across England. The legislation, if approved by Parliament, will require individuals to have listed building consent or planning permission before removing any historic statue. The law would come into effect from March and apply to England’s 12,000 statues. Robert Jenrick, the Communities Secretary…

On eve of US inauguration, a chance to visit the president’s office

January 17, 2021 ArtMovez

As attention focuses on Joseph R. Biden Jr’s inauguration next week and the exit of Donald Trump, an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (NYHS) invites visitors to reflect on the US presidency. One of the most popular elements of Meeting the Presidents is a re-creation of the White House Oval Office, where the commander-in-chief has exercised…

‘Shameful vandalism and desecration’ : Met leaders condemn right-wing crowd’s assault on US Capitol

January 14, 2021 ArtMovez

As law enforcement authorities across the US brace for the possibility of more violence related to Donald Trump’s defeat in the presidential election, the leaders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York today denounced the 6 January rampage on the US Capitol as “domestic terrorism” by “treasonous rioters”. “The attack on the United…

Giant painting of George Floyd murder displayed on Los Angeles billboard after being cancelled in Minneapolis

January 12, 2021 ArtMovez

The advocacy group behind a public work depicting the death of George Floyd says they still hope to show the piece in the city of Minneapolis even though the plan was thwarted last year. Don Perlis’s painting, entitled Floyd (2020), was shown in Times Square in New York last October and is currently on show on a 16ft…

US Capitol’s works of art survive amid right-wing rampage in Washington

January 10, 2021 ArtMovez

The US Capitol’s works of art were subjected to tear gas and pepper spray during the intrusion of right-wing marauders incited by President Donald Trump on Wednesday and will require cleaning and conservation, a spokeswoman for the Architect of the Capitol reported today. Yet the works in the 1826 Neo-Classical building appear to have survived…

Lost art: Measuring COVID-19’s devastating impact on America’s creative economy

January 6, 2021 ArtMovez

The COVID-19 crisis hits hard at arts, culture, and the creative economy. This study estimates the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the creative economy, which is comprised of industries such as film, advertising, and fashion as well as creative occupations such as musicians, artists, performers, and designers. We estimate losses in sales of goods…

In memoriam: remembering art world figures who died in 2020

January 3, 2021 ArtMovez

As 2021 dawns, we want to pay tribute to the artists, curators, writers and dealers who died in 2020. Below is a selection of our obituaries for the year January Artist John Baldessari A thinker and, in his own words, “a frustrated writer” (there was a short-lived stint as a critic in the 1950s), Baldessari…

How a Christmas present made Maripol the ‘Polaroid Queen’

January 2, 2021 ArtMovez

Maripol does not remember what she got her boyfriend for Christmas in 1977. His present to her, on the other hand, became the photogenic stuff of New York legend. From the moment Edo Bertoglio gifted an SX-70 Polaroid camera to Maripol, a young École des Beaux-Arts alum working as a stylist, it became her accessory and artistic instrument of…

‘Long overdue’: US will build national museums for American Latinos and women’s history after Congress approves historic bill

December 30, 2020 ArtMovez

After a decades-long struggle, legislation to create a National Museum of the American Latino and a National Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution was approved last night by the US Congress. Since the passage of separate bills by the US House to found the women’s history museum in…

Rector at Danish art academy steps down over royal bust drowned by artist protesting school’s colonial legacy

December 29, 2020 ArtMovez

The controversy engulfing the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark’s most prestigious art school, over a dumped royal bust took a new turn last week when the college rector was forced to step down. Kirsten Langkilde resigned after the Danish culture ministry said “new powers” are needed at the academy. The move…

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UK government announces new laws to protect controversial historic monuments from ‘woke worthies and baying mobs’

On eve of US inauguration, a chance to visit the president’s office

‘Shameful vandalism and desecration’ : Met leaders condemn right-wing crowd’s assault on US Capitol

Giant painting of George Floyd murder displayed on Los Angeles billboard after being cancelled in Minneapolis

US Capitol’s works of art survive amid right-wing rampage in Washington

Lost art: Measuring COVID-19’s devastating impact on America’s creative economy

In memoriam: remembering art world figures who died in 2020

How a Christmas present made Maripol the ‘Polaroid Queen’

‘Long overdue’: US will build national museums for American Latinos and women’s history after Congress approves historic bill

Rector at Danish art academy steps down over royal bust drowned by artist protesting school’s colonial legacy

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