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Audemars Piguet Contemporary and Aspen Art Museum Co-Commission Sculpture

Audemars Piguet Contemporary and Aspen Art Museum Co-Commission Sculpture

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Audemars Piguet Contemporary (APC) and the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) have co-commissioned a new sculpture by Adrián Villar Rojas that will be unveiled in November in the Jura Mountains before traveling to the latter institution for a multi-floor exhibition in 2026. A press release stated that (Untitled) The Language of the Enemy “draws a parallel between paleontology and speculative memory” and “presents a fictionalised history in which an encounter with fossilized dinosaur remains might have sparked the earliest act of art-making.” Related Articles Rojas is an Argentinian sculptor represented by Marian Goodman Gallery who recently had work exhibited at the 21st Century Museum of Modern Art in Kanazawa, Japan and at the Pinault Collection in Paris. The Jura Mountains are within the Vallée de Joux—a region which marks the French-Swiss border and contain limestone formations which housed the first-studied Jurassic fossils. APC’s co-commission of Rojas’ (Untitled) The Language of the Enemy is the first time the dedicated art program for the luxury Swiss watch company has presented a commissioned artwork in that location—its hometown—and the …

Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum

Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum

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Dippy – a complete cast of a diplodocus skeleton – is Britain’s most famous dinosaur. It has resided at the Natural History Museum in London since 1905 and is now on show in Coventry where it is “dinosaur-in-residence” at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. Dippy, the star attraction in the huge entrance hall of the Natural History Museum from 1979 to 2018, is now on tour around the UK, with Coventry as its latest stop. It had previously been shown in Dorchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Glasgow, Newcastle, Cardiff, Rochdale, Norwich and London. So what is it that makes Dippy so popular? I got a sense of the dino’s appeal in August 2021 when I gave a lecture under the Dippy skeleton in Norwich Cathedral. Looking for something good? Cut through the noise with a carefully curated selection of the latest releases, live events and exhibitions, straight to your inbox every fortnight, on Fridays. Sign up here. The lecture was about dinosaur feathers and colours. It highlighted new research that identified traces of pigment in the …

Capital Jewish Museum shooting reminds us to watch our words

Capital Jewish Museum shooting reminds us to watch our words

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(RNS) — Like millions of others, I awoke yesterday to the terrible news of the execution-style murders of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, whose only “crime” is that they were breathing while Zionist. It all became more personal when about an hour later, I learned Yaron was the son of Daniel Lischinsky, a wonderful Israeli-Argentine tour guide with whom I have led trips in Israel for Hispanic pastors from North and South America.  Daniel is warm, wise and a truly gentle soul. Now he and the rest of Yaron’s family, along with Sarah’s family, are in hell. My heart is with them, and my heart aches for all civilians who are targeted for murder, regardless of who they are or what they believe. But a broken heart is not enough. It is not enough to mourn these losses. We need to ask what can be done to prevent such crimes in the future. The suspect’s shouts point us all in at least one such direction: Three simple words we regularly tell our kids — watch …

Ilhan Omar condemns shootings at Jewish Museum

Ilhan Omar condemns shootings at Jewish Museum

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday condemned the fatal shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in a statement on the social platform X after “Fox & Friends” played a clip of her earlier in the day declining to offer a response to the violent event. “I am appalled by the deadly shooting at the Capital… Source link

Shooting kills two Israeli embassy staffers at Jewish museum in DC

Shooting kills two Israeli embassy staffers at Jewish museum in DC

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(RNS) — Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed in a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where an American Jewish Committee event was held on Wednesday evening (May 21). The victims were identified as Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, according to The New York Times.  Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said an early investigation determined that the victims were exiting the museum at the time of the shooting. Smith said the suspect, whom she identified as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, entered the museum and was detained by security for the event. He chanted, “Free, Free Palestine,” in police custody, Smith said.  “Prior to the shooting, the suspect was observed pacing back and forth outside of the museum,” she said at a news conference. “He approached a group of four people, produced a handgun and opened fire, striking both of our decedents.” Eyewitnesses said the suspect said he “did it for Gaza,” according to CNN.  “Two Israeli Embassy staff were senselessly killed tonight near the Jewish Museum in …

LA’s Fowler Museum Returns 11 Artifacts to Australia’s Larrakia People

LA’s Fowler Museum Returns 11 Artifacts to Australia’s Larrakia People

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The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) recently returned 11 objects to an Aboriginal community in Northern Australia. A kangaroo tooth headband and 10 glass spearheads, some of which are more than 100 years old, were voluntarily returned by the museum to the Larrakia Community of Australia’s Northern Territory in a handover ceremony on May 20. The tools and woven fiber artifacts—collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—are ceremonial items of deep spiritual and cultural importance to the Larrakia Community. Related Articles Chief’s Headband from the Larrakia Community made from kangaroo teeth. Courtesy of the Fowler Museum. Half of the returned objects first arrived at the Fowler Museum in 1965 through a large donation from the Wellcome Trust. Pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome collected medical and archaeological artifacts, estimated at approximately 1 million objects. After Wellcome died in 1936, the Wellcome Trust dispersed his holdings. The British Museum received the largest gift, while the Fowler Museum received 30,000 objects in 1965. The remaining objects the Fowler Museum returned to the Larrakia Community on …

Child Scratches Mark Rothko Work in Rotterdam Museum

Child Scratches Mark Rothko Work in Rotterdam Museum

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A prized painting by Mark Rothko on display in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam was damaged by a child who made “small scratches” on its surface. The work, titled Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 (1960), is housed in the Depot, a storage facility that is open to the public and located next to the main building. The incident occurred during an “unguarded moment,” the museum told the Dutch news outlet Algemeen Dagblad, which said the painting was worth as much as €50 million (roughly $57 million). According to a press statement from the institution, the work sustained superficial but visible damage to the unvarnished paint layer in the lower section of the canvas. “We are currently researching the next steps for the treatment of the painting. We expect that the work will be able to be shown again in the future,” the museum said. Conservation expertise has reportedly been sought by the museum within and outside the Netherlands. The museum did not indicate who would be responsible for the cost of repairs to …

With New Museum, France Wades Into Divisive Nation-Building Project

With New Museum, France Wades Into Divisive Nation-Building Project

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In December, India and France quietly reached an agreement for France Muséums Développement (FMD) to help develop the Yuga Yugeen Bharat National Museum in Delhi, which would replace the current National Museum of India. The museum will span 1.67 million square feet across several current government buildings which will be redeveloped for the new purpose. Announced in 2023, the YYBNM is the passion project of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been widely criticized for mainstreaming an exclusionary Hindu nationalism. As part of his Hindutva political project, Modi’s right-wing BJP government has sought to exclude or minimize the country’s sizable minority communities from textbooks and history books, historical landmarks and tourist attractions, and even the official name of the state. Modi and the BJP often use Bharat, a Sanskrit and Hindi word for India that many have said reinforces Hindu supremacy. Related Articles The new museum’s name uses Bharat instead of India and translates to “the museum of timeless and eternal India.” The intention there was made clearer last month, when Indian news outlet …

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Names Conservation Head as Next CEO

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Names Conservation Head as Next CEO

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, generally considered the top art museum in that city, named its new director and CEO on Thursday, the museum announced in a press statement. Pierre Terjanian, 56, the museum’s current chief of curatorial affairs and conservation, will take up the role starting in July. Terjanian was picked after a seven-month search and succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum, who has been the director since 2015. “The predominant feeling is the excitement,” Terjanian told the New York Times. “This is a great institution, and it has a big part to play in Boston, in New England and beyond.” Related Articles Terjanian joined the museum in 2024 in a role overseeing the conservation of the museum’s vast collection of over 500,000 objects. He also has directed the development of the MFA’s exhibition program, according to the museum, both in Boston and globally. Previously, he worked for ten years as the Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Curator in Charge of Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Terjanian …