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Around London
Citing disillusionment resulting from the recent Brexit vote, Martin Roth will resign from his position as director of the London’s V&A. He will now return to Germany. [The Guardian]
Meanwhile, Brexit has yet to significantly impact the London art scene, which continues to thrive. Thaddeus Ropac went so far as to call Brexit a “technicality.” [The New York Times]
At Tate Britain, an artificial intelligence program named Fabrica is matching digital images in the museum’s archives with visually similar pictures owned by Reuters. [Smithsonian]
Elsewhere in Europe
The first reviews for Laurie Simmons’s My Art, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, are coming out. The Hollywood Reporter called the film “clunky.” [The Hollywood Reporter]
Bill Viola will have a retrospective at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi in March of next year. In addition to his videos and installations, it will include Uccello and Masolino frescoes. [The Art Newspaper]
Openings
“How the fight for a national African-American museum was won.” [The New York Times]
Closings
In the midst of a hostile climate for creative expression, Turkey’s Çanakkale Biennial has been suddenly canceled just a few weeks before it was scheduled to open. [Artforum]
Extras
Dora Budor shares some inspirations for her work, which typically deals with Hollywood filmmaking and special effects. Among them are a Michelangelo Antonioni film and prop frogs. [Frieze]
Karl Lagerfeld has teamed up with art-supply company Faber-Castell to create what he’s called an “art kit.” It costs just $3,000. [CNN]