Ernie Barnes Painting Heads to Bonhams, Climate Activists Hit Another U.K. Museum, and More: Morning Links for July 6, 2022
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Royal Academy of Arts
London’s Royal Academy Apologizes to Artist Accused of Transphobia
Jess de Wahls's work was removed from the institution's gift shop after an outcry.
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Angelica Kauffman Was One of 18th-Century Europe’s Most Famous Portraitists, But She Was Nearly Forgotten
The Neoclassical painter was one of two female founders of London's Royal Academy of Arts.
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Losing $1.2 M. Per Month, London’s Royal Academy of Arts Plows Ahead with Big Marina Abramović Survey
Abramović's famed House With the Ocean View will appear as part of the show in 2021.
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Marina Abramovic’s Nude Performance Piece ‘Imponderabilia’ Goes to London in 2020—Can Brits Take the Heat?
New Yorkers had mixed reactions to the work when it was staged at MoMA in 2010.
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L.A. Habitat: David Hockney
A visit with the artist as he paints new portraits. 'I wasn't planning on doing this many at first,' he says, 'but when I got to about 15 I realized I could probably go on forever.'
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The Cube Root of Dreams: John Ashbery on Joseph Cornell, in 1967
In honor of the Royal Academy of Arts’s Joseph Cornell survey, “Wanderlust,” which finishes its run this weekend, we turn back to the Summer 1967 issue of ARTnews, in which John Ashbery reviewed a…
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Ian McKeever
The late 1980s were a turning point for Ian McKeever, professionally and personally. He moved from London to the village of Hartgrove in the Southwest of England. In the same period, the landscape p…
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Sir Norman Rosenthal
Sir Norman Rosenthal was the Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts in London for 31 years. Herein he tells us about the recently opened Anish Kapoor show in London, for which he was an ad…
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Newswire
RobbReport
Electric Carmaker Polestar Just Built a Space-Age Treehouse in Finland
WWD
A Critical Take on BNPL, an Insider’s View
Rolling Stone
Why Don’t We ‘Officially Going on Hiatus’ Amid Legal Battle With Former Management
Sportico
Dunkin’ Joins New 3ICE Hockey League as a Top Sponsor
SPY