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National Endowment for the Arts Scraps Challenge America Grant Program

National Endowment for the Arts Scraps Challenge America Grant Program

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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEA NIXES GRANT. In the latest anti-DEI news, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has cancelled its Challenge America arts grant program for 2026, reports Hyperallergic. The 2001-founded program awards $10,000 for arts initiatives targeting “underserved communities,” including those with limited access to mental health services. New requirements for the grant also recently stated that recipients must certify they will not use the money to “promote gender ideology.” The cancelation “sends a message to corporate donors that they should reconsider their grant-making,” observed Robert Kesten, executive director of Stonewall National Museum, Archives, and Library. He added that most of the museum’s corporate donors have “vanished” since the new Trump policies. “That has been the biggest surprise, just how fast corporate and foundation America has closed its doors and is reducing the size and scope of the public conversation on important issues,” he added. UNCLEAR FUTURE FOR FEARLESS GIRL. In a related story, Artnet News reports that the “fate” of the Fearless Girl sculpture …

Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On

Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On

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  A Banksy mural is heading to auction early next year. The catch? The buyer must purchase the entire building upon which Well Hung Lover was painted by the anonymous street artist.   Banksy’s Well Hung Lover Heads to Auction Well Hung Lover by Banksy, 2006. Source: Adrian Langtry/CNN.   In 2006, Banksy painted Well Hung Lover on the side of a sexual health clinic in Bristol, England. It depicts a naked man hanging from an open window. Another man, dressed in a suit and standing next to a woman in underwear, looks out the window, seemingly unaware of his partner’s dangling lover. This Banksy mural is technically the United Kingdom’s first legal piece of street art after a survey by the Bristol City Council granted permission retrospectively. Well Hung Lover was defaced by a paintball gun in 2009, after which the City Council partially restored the mural. It was defaced again in 2018 with black spray paint.   The sexual health clinic has since relocated from the building with the Banksy mural. Now, Bristol real estate agent Hollis …

Banksy Mural Will to be Sold with the Building It is Painted on

Banksy Mural Will to be Sold with the Building It is Painted on

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A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it is painted on. Titled Well Hung Lover, it was painted on the wall of a sexual health clinic in Bristol, UK, in 2006. Banksy, who is from the city, said he wasn’t aware of the building’s coincidental use at the time. Real estate agent Hollis Morgan is auctioning the property – and therefore the artwork – with a new 250-year lease next year. The Grade II-listed Georgian building has five floors and is located close to Bristol Cathedral and the University of Bristol. A nightclub operates in the basement. Hollis Morgan is promoting the property’s potential to be converted into student apartments. As for the fate of the artwork, the real estate agent pointed to the fact that Bristol city council has no official policy on street art, no matter who it is by. “It is recognised that street art is created not as a permanent work of …

Suspects in Banksy’s ‘Girl With Balloon’ Theft Head to Court

Suspects in Banksy’s ‘Girl With Balloon’ Theft Head to Court

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Two men accused of stealing Banksy’s painting Girl With Balloon from a London gallery late Sunday night are set to appear before the court next month on charges with non-residential burglary, according to NBC News. The picture was stolen late Sunday night from Grove Gallery on New Cavendish Street in central London. Girl With Balloon was the only work stolen, however it wasn’t missing for long.  By Thursday, police had brought two suspects in custody and the painting recovered.  Grove Gallery was hosting an exhibition of works by the cloak-and-dagger artist titled “Banksy’s London Rebellion,” which opened on August 21 and closed September 7, the day before the heist. According to the BBC there more than $2 million of art in the gallery at the time. Related Articles Court documents priced the Girl With Ballon print at $354,000. CCTV footage of the burglary shows a man dressed in black plants and a black hoodie, with his face covered, smashing the glass front door of the gallery with a heavy object, then ramming his shoulder into the cracked glass until he can fit through. Once …

Kissing coppers to rutting rhinos: Banksy’s artworks – ranked! | Banksy

Kissing coppers to rutting rhinos: Banksy’s artworks – ranked! | Banksy

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Banksy has become famous for being famous, which is quite an achievement considering we are not certain who he is. Like all famous artists, he is often reduced to a cash value – making his artworks as nickable as they are memetic. The animals Banksy has been painting in unlikely London sites this summer are causing a now-familiar surge of adulation and hubbub. Yet behind his (anti)celebrity cult, Banksy is an artist whose work veers wildly in quality. At his best he’s a satirical agent provocateur with few rivals. At worst he’s vacantly sentimental or ideologically crass, often both at the same time. So which Banksys are worth making a fuss over and which deserve to be left in a skip? 20. Napalm Photograph: Alamy Banksy’s capacity to be trite about tragedy is encapsulated by this painting which adds nothing to Nick Ut’s photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc after she was burned in a napalm attack. Or rather he adds Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald in a heavy-handed bit of bombastic overkill. 19. Girl …

Fake ads, real politics: the art of Foka Wolf, the ‘Birmingham Banksy’ – in pictures | Art and design

Fake ads, real politics: the art of Foka Wolf, the ‘Birmingham Banksy’ – in pictures | Art and design

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Anonymous street artist Foka Wolf uses the language of advertising to highlight political and social issues, from the PPE crisis to food banks. “I grew up in a low income, single-parent household,” he says, “so I take it very fucking personally when people in power try and demonise those who are broke and voiceless.” Known as the Birmingham Banksy (“I prefer Poundland Banksy”), Wolf has fooled countless people with his fake billboards. “There’s a lot of power in putting words on paper. One poster was offering students money to grow 23 pairs of ears on their back and quite a few people were up for it.” During tough political times, does it get harder to make satire? “Easier. More dickheads – more targets.” Source link

World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London

World’s Largest Banksy Exhibition to Reopen in London

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Flower Thrower by Banksy on view in Soho, London, photographed by Mark Senior, via The Art of Banksy and GTP Exhibitions   After attracting over 1.5 million visitors in 15 international cities, the world’s largest Banksy collection is going on show again in London. Featuring over 150 original artworks, The Art of Banksy opens in Soho at 100 Charing Cross Road on Thursday, April 11.   The Art of Banksy Banksy Exhibition in Soho, London, photographed by Mark Senior, via The Art of Banksy and GTP Exhibitions   While this Banksy exhibition is not officially authorized or curated by the anonymous street artist, it features the world’s largest collection of authenticated Banksy originals. The Art of Banksy showcases over 150 canvases, prints, hand-drawn sketches, and other unique works and ephemera. Some of these objects have never been publicly displayed elsewhere.   In recent years, The Art of Banksy’s global tour has captivated crowds from Auckland, New Zealand to Washington, D.C. Following two especially successful runs in the English capital, The Art of Banksy is opening …

Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism

Newest Banksy Mural Guarded After Vandalism

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A new London mural by Banksy. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.   Newest Banksy Mural in North London, Islington, recently suffered vandalism. Because of this unfortunate event, there is a fortress-like protection around the mural, which annoys local people. After a vandal sprayed white paint on the artwork, the property owner installed plastic sheeting and wooden planks, thereby concealing the artwork from the public’s gaze.   Protection After Vandalism Security fencing, wooden hoardings and plastic screens, surround the latest confirmed work by the street artist, on March 27, 2024 in London, England. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images.   The street artist’s splashing of green paint on the curb of an otherwise unremarkable home operates to appear like the missing leaves of a nearby cherry tree. The tree is supposedly deteriorating and has been severely clipped by the Islington council. At ground level, the street artist added a stencilled image with a spray can and hose. This image appears to be gazing up at their work.   People gather to photograph the new London mural by Banksy. Photo: …