All posts tagged: commission

Ai Weiwei Debuts 500 Cast-Iron Combat Helmets for MCA Commission

Ai Weiwei Debuts 500 Cast-Iron Combat Helmets for MCA Commission

Published by Jenni Sidey

Ai Weiwei on Friday unveiled his commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney: 500 cast-iron combat helmets arranged in ten orderly lines on the city’s busiest green space, Tallawoladah Lawn. The 131-foot-long installation, titled Mushrooms, recalls various 20th-century combat helmets, complete with inner padding. The installation is arranged on an elevated platform split by a pedestrian walkway, making the work difficult for visitors to the famous harbor to miss. According to a statement from the artist, its title—like the curved lip of the helmet—alludes to “growth in darkness, nuclear mushroom clouds, and in Chinese, the term also suggests endless delays.” Source link

Dutch Commission Proposes New Guardians for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art

Dutch Commission Proposes New Guardians for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art

Published by Jenni Sidey

A committee appointed by the Dutch government has come up with a plan for a state-owned collection’s controversial holdings, reports the New York Times. The Netherlands Art Property Collection (known as the NK Collection) comprises thousands of priceless objects, including paintings worth millions by Dutch Golden Age masters, repatriated by the Allies from Germany to the Netherlands after World War II. Most of these objects were looted from Jews who were killed, deported, or forced to sell their holdings by the Nazis. While provenance research overseen by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science remains ongoing, the items’ rightful owners have yet to be located. Source link

Frieze New York to Include Whitney Biennial Commission

Frieze New York to Include Whitney Biennial Commission

Published by José Betancourt

In just over a month, Frieze New York will open its 2026 edition, which will include several institutional collaborations and a new acquisition fund. Scheduled to run May 13­–17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors, Frieze New York will partner will the Whitney Museum, the Dia Art Foundation, and the Counterpublic triennial, to present a suite of performances and installations both in and out of the fair. The most high-profile of these is Frieze’s collaboration with this year’s Whitney Biennial. At the fair, artist Jonathan González will present Body Configurations (2023­–25), a photographic installation of six C-prints commissioned for the Biennial that will be displayed on the sixth floor of the Shed. Source link

Snapchat visée par une enquête de la Commission européenne

Snapchat visée par une enquête de la Commission européenne

Published by Sam Flores

Un procès inédit sur la dépendance aux réseaux sociaux s’est tenu mercredi en Californie et a conclu à la négligence de Meta et YouTube pour avoir conçu des plateformes addictives qui ont nui à un enfant, les condamnant à verser 3 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts. Dans le cadre de son enquête sur Snapchat, l’UE pourrait infliger à Snap, la société mère, une amende pouvant aller jusqu’à 6% de son chiffre d’affaires annuel mondial s’il s’avère qu’elle a enfreint les règles européennes en matière de numérique. Un porte-parole de Snapchat a déclaré dans un communiqué que “la sécurité et le bien-être de tous les Snapchatters sont une priorité absolue” et que, dès la conception de Snapchat, “la protection de la vie privée et la sécurité ont été intégrées dès le départ, avec des protections supplémentaires pour les adolescents”. “Au fur et à mesure que les risques en ligne évoluent, nous réexaminons, renforçons et investissons en permanence dans ces mesures de protection”, a poursuivi le porte-parole, ajoutant que la société avait “pleinement coopéré avec …

UK Gambling Commission wagering requirements chart a course for 2026

UK Gambling Commission wagering requirements chart a course for 2026

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has introduced new changes that will affect online casinos, sportsbooks, bingo operators, and land-based casinos nationwide across 2026. The initial raft of changes took effect in January 2026 and applies to licensed gambling operators in Great Britain, but will have a wider impact on customers and account holders, marketing partners, and those responsible for compliance and risk. What do these wagering requirement changes mean? The UKGC outlined these changes in 2025, a formative period for games of chance in Britain, with the November 2025 Chancellor’s Budget widely expected to be detrimental to gambling operators. As we reported, the budget was not nearly as crippling to gambling firms and the wider commercial sector, but a consultation, published in error and then hastily reinstated, earmarked a possible 30% increase in gambling license fees from the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Labour attacked our pubs, tourism, and hospitality with National Insurance and Business Rates hikes and now they're hitting gambling with higher license fees. I know Labour MPs are a …

Shahzia Sikander’s Animated Film Selected for M+ Facade Commission

Shahzia Sikander’s Animated Film Selected for M+ Facade Commission

Published by José Betancourt

Hong Kong’s M+ museum has selected Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander‘s hand-painted animated film 3 to 12 Nautical Miles (2026) for its latest commission for M+ Facade, an enormous LED-embedded media screen measuring approximately several hundred feet across. Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, the work will screen from March 23 through June 21. 3 to 12 Nautical Miles (2026) continues Sikander’s interpretation of the entangled histories of empire and commerce, linking Imperial Britain, the Indian subcontinent, and Qing China within a broader examination of the transmission of visual language and form across these regions. The animation chronicles the waning sway of the Mughal Empire under Akbar II, its intersection with the Qing dynasty in a period of internal turmoil, and the East India Company’s transition from a mercantile entity to a colonial power, culminating in the First Opium War—sparked by Britain’s opium cultivation in India and its trade with China, and the contested nature of maritime borders. Source link