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- Jessica Morgan has been named director of the Tate museum community.
- The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery has reopened 9 months after the notorious crown jewels heist uncovered main safety weaknesses.
- British artist Lucy Sparrow’s first US museum exhibition has remodeled a Nineteen Eighties grocery store right into a felt-filled wonderland.
The Headlines
COMING HOME. After greater than a decade constructing a extra expansive and globally minded Dia Artwork Basis, Jessica Morgan is returning to the establishment that made her—this time as its high boss. Tate introduced this morning that Morgan will turn out to be the community’s new director starting January 1, 2027, succeeding Maria Balshaw, who stepped down on the finish of 2025 amid mounting monetary pressures. The appointment is a homecoming within the truest sense: Morgan served as a curator of worldwide artwork at Tate Trendy earlier than taking the Dia helm in 2015, the place she oversaw a marquee enlargement in Chelsea, launched free admission, and broadened the muse’s traditionally slim canon to incorporate artists like Sam Gilliam, Senga Nengudi, and Tehching Hsieh. She now inherits a community below pressure—Tate lately reported working at a loss and noticed 150 workers go on strike—however one which Tate chairman Roland Rudd says will profit from her “visionary” stewardship.
DIAMONDS IN EXILE. The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery has reopened 9 months after the notorious crown jewels heist uncovered main safety weaknesses on the world’s most-visited museum, Reuters reported. The stolen items totaled $102 million and haven’t been recovered. Guests can as soon as once more see the gallery’s lavish Seventeenth-century interiors, however the jewels that weren’t nabbed shall be exhibited elsewhere within the Paris museum in a safer location, Louvre director Christophe Leribault mentioned. Throughout the smash-and-grab, the thieves used a movers’ elevate to succeed in the gallery earlier than escaping by scooter in below seven minutes. French officers described the reopening as a brand new starting whereas pledging stronger safety measures throughout the nation’s museums.
The Digest
Latest main museum acquisitions embrace a uncommon Wassily Kandinsky titled Improvisation 21 heading to Liechtenstein’s Hilti Artwork Basis and an Agnes Martin portray becoming a member of Canada’s Remai Trendy. [The Art Newspaper]
British sculptor Ray Exworth spent a long time hiding his distinctive sculptures inside locked Cornish sheds, however after his loss of life, the artist’s mysterious non-public assortment has lastly been revealed. [The Guardian]
The annual “Secret 7” fundraising public sale returns on August 18, with 700 artist-designed vinyl sleeves created for tracks by artists together with John Lennon up for grabs. All proceeds will assist Struggle Baby’s humanitarian work in battle zones together with Sudan, Yemen, and Ukraine. [FT]
British artist Lucy Sparrow’s first US museum exhibition has remodeled a Nineteen Eighties grocery store right into a felt-filled wonderland, with greater than 20,000 hand-stitched comfortable sculptures taking two years to create. [ARTnews]
The Kicker
As ARTnews’s Harrison Jacobs reported Wednesday, Christopher Nolan’s new movie, The Odyssey, has sparked on-line debate over its historic accuracy, from anachronistic armor to the improper form of ship, however classicists argue the criticism misunderstands Homer’s epic custom. Students say there was by no means one fastened model of the traditional world. The poem itself blended Bronze Age recollections with the tradition of later audiences, and each period has reimagined its heroes. Nolan’s gritty, desaturated imaginative and prescient could not recreate Mycenaean Greece precisely, however consultants argue that adapting Homer has all the time meant reflecting the considerations of the current. The larger query, they are saying, is what this model of antiquity reveals about our personal second.
