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To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS. The Storm King Art Center in Upstate New York is embarking on a $45 million redesign and upgrade of its 500-acre campus that will include “visitor pavilions, a relocated parking lot, infrastructural improvements, and an art conservation and fabrication facility,” the Architect’s Newspaper reports. A team has been tapped for the effort: Heneghan Peng ...

//= do_shortcode('')?> Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay Up to ten venues are being considered to jointly house a new National Contemporary Art Gallery across Wales, according to the Welsh Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport. Dawn Bowden MS has outlined progress on the development which could see the gallery being accommodated in a number of venues around Wales with one ‘anchor’ ...

Art by 4 Arkansas students on displayWASHINGTON -- New student artwork from Arkansas is now on display in a prominent underground corridor connecting the U.S. Capitol and the Cannon House Office Building.The four artists were winners of this year's Congressional Art Competition in their respective congressional districts.Members of Congress, staff members and visitors can view the artwork when they walk in the underground hallway.The ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SERENITY NOW. On Friday, Venice announced a plan that will require tourists intent on a day trip to the city to make a reservation and pay a fee between €3 and €10 (that is about $3.13 to $10.43), depending on the size of crowds, the New York Times reports. The new system will go into ...

The long-awaited return of artifacts to Namibia and Cameroon from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin has cleared its last hurdle. The museum announced yesterday that the board of trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, a federal body that oversees the institution, along with 26 other museums and cultural organizations in and around Berlin, has authorized the agreements between SPK ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines A SHORTER LIST. The Smithsonian has narrowed down the possible sites for the forthcoming National Museum of the American Latino and Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, the Washington Post reports. From more than two dozen that were originally proposed, four now remain: three are undeveloped parts of the National Mall, and one is the Arts and Industries Building, which was also in ...

POCATELLO — A fire that gutted his business hasn’t stopped Sixes Creatives co-owner Josh Pohlman from chasing his vision. The February fire left Sixes, Polhman’s art studio, a charred husk, with Pohlman and his business facing an uncertain future. But less than four months later, Sixes has a new location on Yellowstone Avenue and a full slate of future plans. The new location gives ...

  Latest News in Black Art features news updates and developments in the world of art and related culture   Rendering of Charles Gaines’s Moving Chains, 2022. | Courtesy TOLO Architecture   Public Art On Windrush Day (June 22), British artist Thomas J. Price is paying tribute to Afro-Caribbeans who emigrated to the UK between 1948 and 1971, with a new bronze sculpture. Depicting ...

LAXART, a key Los Angeles alternative art space, will inaugurate a permanent headquarters this fall. Its new home in L.A.’s Melrose Hills will more than double its current exhibition space while building on the organization’s “legacy of artist-centered programming and leadership.” LAXART’s current space will close at the end of this June. “The uncertain, early days of the pandemic instigated some institutional soul searching, ...

The Gulf nation of Qatar is ramping up its investment in the arts with plans to build three more museums in Doha, including the new Lusail museum which intends to house “the world’s most extensive collection of Orientalist paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, rare texts, and applied arts.” The plans were announced on March 27 by Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, ...