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Three figures in the art world are being remembered this week: Rune Mields, a German artist who dug deep into geometry, Onai Quiñonez, a Venezuelan painter, and Song Burnsoo, a Korean museum director and printmaker. The tributes trace what each person built, from bodies of work to the institutions and communities they helped shape.
4:47 PMHyperallergicLos Angeles is stacking the calendar for July, with a grab bag of shows that range from long-running public art legacies to more private, unexpected practices. You will find Marc Kreisel’s under-the-radar work, Gwyneth Bulawsky’s queer and trans landscapes, and Barbara Carrasco’s decades of mural-making, plus plenty more across the city.
4:23 PMHyperallergicAi Weiwei has taken over Aviva Studios in Manchester with a huge, heavy-hitting show that drags colonial plunder, war, and today’s migrant crisis into the same room. You walk in under a chandelier made of skeletons, past images of the world’s most powerful bombs, and into galleries packed with reclaimed history: recast bronzes, revived ruins, and flags of vanished nations. It’s also stuffed with everyday materials like mountains of buttons and even perfumed tea, though some of the Lego-heavy bits land more like a gimmick than a gut punch.
10:42 AMThe Guardian Art and DesignManhattan prosecutors seized dozens of antiquities from the Met in June, pushing the total value of items taken this year to about $95 million. The DA’s office is clearly frustrated with how slowly the museum is reviewing questionable objects, and it’s using seizures to speed things up. The message is blunt: if the paperwork and provenance do not hold up, these works are leaving the building.
10:41 AMARTnewsSummary
Three figures in the art world are being remembered this week: Rune Mields, a German artist who dug deep into geometry, Onai Quiñonez, a Venezuelan painter, and Song Burnsoo, a Korean museum director and printmaker. The tributes trace what each person built, from bodies of work to the institutions and communities they helped shape.
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It is a moment to recognize the lasting impact artists and cultural stewards have long after the headlines move on.
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Los Angeles is stacking the calendar for July, with a grab bag of shows that range from long-running public art legacies to more private, unexpected practices. You will find Marc Kreisel’s under-the-radar work, Gwyneth Bulawsky’s queer and trans landscapes, and Barbara Carrasco’s decades of mural-making, plus plenty more across the city.
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If you want a quick roadmap for seeing what is actually moving in LA right now, this is it.
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Ai Weiwei has taken over Aviva Studios in Manchester with a huge, heavy-hitting show that drags colonial plunder, war, and today’s migrant crisis into the same room. You walk in under a chandelier made of skeletons, past images of the world’s most powerful bombs, and into galleries packed with reclaimed history: recast bronzes, revived ruins, and flags of vanished nations. It’s also stuffed with everyday materials like mountains of buttons and even perfumed tea, though some of the Lego-heavy bits land more like a gimmick than a gut punch.
Why it matters
It’s a big reminder that the violence behind empires and borders is not past tense, and art can make that impossible to ignore.
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Manhattan prosecutors seized dozens of antiquities from the Met in June, pushing the total value of items taken this year to about $95 million. The DA’s office is clearly frustrated with how slowly the museum is reviewing questionable objects, and it’s using seizures to speed things up. The message is blunt: if the paperwork and provenance do not hold up, these works are leaving the building.
Why it matters
The pressure is rising for museums to prove where their treasures came from, or hand them back.
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