Summer Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
Behold, 34 exhibitions to see—or at least read about—this season.
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Getty Museum
‘We Will Continue to Defend Our Legal Right to the Statue’: Getty Trust Responds to Italian Court Calling for Return of ‘Victorious Youth’ Bronze
The statue has been standing at the Getty Villa in California since the 1970s.
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Keishia Gu Joins Getty Museum as Head of Education
She recently served as director of admissions and enrollment at UCLA's Geffen Academy.
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Hedonists and Humanists: Mapplethorpe in Los Angeles
It seems difficult to reevaluate Robert Mapplethorpe’s career today, partly because the furor over the cancellation of his first retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in 1989 inspired such thoughtful …
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Morning Links: Axe-Wielding Douglas Gordon Edition
Critics didn’t really like Douglas Gordon’s new play, so the Turner Prize–winning artist axed the walls of the theater where it’s having its run. [Manchester Evening News] A Lego artist has recreated…
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Morning Links: Kenya and Costa Rica Edition
The country of Japan will be donating $1 million to the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Museums of Asian Art. [Artforum] Kenya and Costa Rica have pulled…
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The Getty’s Associate Director for Collections Is Retiring
Thomas Kren, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s associate director for collections, is retiring after 35 years with the museum, the Getty announced today. He joined the Getty in 1980, first as an associate…
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Smithson Trumps Snooki: New Jersey is State of the Art
Princeton gives Jersey its props, MoMA's Capital Exchange program drops, Cleveland rocks a mega-multi-touch-screen, and more museum news
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Japan’s Postwar Art Wave
Museum and gallery shows on Mono-ha, Gutai, and other avant-garde movements in Japan from the '50s onward are shedding new light on an era previously unknown to the West
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GoldDerby
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Everything new coming to Netflix this week, and everything leaving (week of Jan. 19)
Rolling Stone
Watch Bruce Springsteen’s Surprise Set at ‘Light of Day’ in Asbury Park
SPY
How to Give a Crowd-Pleasing Best Man’s Speech at That Upcoming Wedding
