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West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD)—the arts district at the southern tip of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Peninsula, on the shores of Victoria Harbor—is making its mark on the world’s cultural scene. This week, the WKCD is hosting a major summit that brings together more than 20 directors and commissioners from 12 countries, along with 1,000 delegates (Linking cultures/High bridgesMarch 24-25).At the summit, the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, the organization behind Hong Kong’s art hub, signed a number of memorandums of understanding with more than 20 cultural institutions from around the world to foster relationships with other institutions and cultural centres.…

An Andy Warhol screen print of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong is mysteriously missing from a California collection. The 1972 artwork was last seen in a secure vault located in the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College (OCC) before staff reported the discovery of the piece on March 13. After an internal investigation, the school’s campus security department sent an alert to the OCC community on March 20 asking for help. The Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) is investigating the case. “I don’t know how many people knew there was a Mao print on the vault,” said…

To receive morning links in your inbox every weekday, sign up with us Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. TITLES THE NEW LEADER OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Nicholas Cullinan A new director has been appointed British Museum In London, after the resignation of the former director Hartwig Fischer, who resigned following a massive theft of the museum’s collection, which the institution believes was perpetrated by its former curator. He is currently the director of Cullinan National Portrait Galleryand in his new role, he will also have to face broad challenges Parthenon marble To Greece, as well as governance problems. Related Articles MUSEUM…

A new mural by Banksy appeared in London’s Finsbury Park on Sunday. On a white wall behind a real cherry tree with pieces, cut branches and missing leaves, is a picture of her holding a pressure hose sprayed with green paint to represent the missing leaf. He confirmed this latest work of the elusive artist on his Instagram account on Monday.The mural has been interpreted as a scathing commentary on environmental degradation. Jeremy Corbyn, former Labor leader who has represented Islington North in Parliament since 1983, said. Associated Press that the new work “makes people stop and think: ‘Hold on.…

The art technology team at London’s Serpentine Galleries has invited artists and arts organisations, lawyers, publishers and technologists to join them in developing new shared systems for cultural institutions to manage and control their data using artificial intelligence (AI). The call to action comes in a year where the use of AI by large companies to analyze and profit from data sets — as well as by governments, businesses, professionals and creatives in their daily lives — is one of the major issues facing society.The group was invited at the Future Art Ecosystems 4: Art x Public AI (Fae 4)…

Hong Kong’s art season kicks off this week with the city’s first international cultural summit, bringing together influential figures from art, architecture, life sciences, gaming and technology. Organized by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) on March 24-26, a series of panel discussions are taking place at three venues: M+, Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) and Xiqu Center.The summit – aimed at cementing Hong Kong’s reputation as an art hub for East and West – also shone a spotlight on M+, which opened in 2021 when the city was essentially shut off from the world during the Covid-19 pandemic.…

Mary Boone, the famous New York saleswoman who went to prison for tax fraud, is the subject of a new Vampire Weekend song that shares her name. But the song is less an ode to his gallery, which has boosted the profiles of artists ranging from Barbara Kruger to Ai Weiwei, than an elegy to a New York era. The single, released this Thursday, only abstractly references Boone’s business and the subsequent scandal surrounding his personal finances, using his name primarily within a rhyming scheme. “Mary Boone, Mary Boone,” Vampire Weekend director Ezra Koenig can be heard chanting at various…

Art MarketTabish KhanExterior view of TJ Boutling, London. Courtesy of TJ Boulting. Although Mayfair is London’s most established commercial gallery area, it is far from the only art center in the British capital. Medium-sized galleries have sprung up in recent years in areas from Shoreditch to Southwark, but none like Fitzrovia, which is just north-east of Oxford Circus. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began to ease, galleries have flocked to the Gentile district in double digits, bolstering the area’s credentials as part of London’s commercial gallery scene, where established tastemakers meet emerging trendsetters. Fitzrovia is known for having a mix of…

Inaugural works of Small Worldthe latest biennial in Taipei, which closed on Sunday, the provocative exhibits are as remarkable as they ever get: first, a section featuring pioneering Palestinian digital artist Samia Halaby, then a wall of Hsu Tsun-Hsu’s photographs documenting Taiwan’s passage through the military dictatorship. To the prosperous democracy in the 1990s.Palestinian curator Reem Shadid from Beirut, Taiwanese curator Freya Chou from Hong Kong and Taiwanese American writer Brian Kuan Wood from New York. Small World It applies insights from very small but conflicted places, like Taiwan and Palestine, to big questions about humanity, security, and community.”After that…

Hundreds of workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) recently went on strike in one of Canada’s most expensive cities in an effort to get higher wages. After ten months of negotiations, members of Local 535 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO) officially went on strike on March 26 after the museum’s latest offer was rejected. The union said the AGO’s “final” offer did not offer livable wages and included protections against hiring part-time workers, who make up 60 percent of the museum’s workforce. Related Articles Events co-ordinator Mark Thornberry has worked at the museum for 15…