Controversy resurfaces in Colombia over treasure-filled San José shipwreck – The Art Newspaper
Which holds more value: the story of a shipwreck or the treasures it carried? For years, controversy has…
Fire erupts at San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain during its dismantling – The Art Newspaper
The effort to dismantle San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain is off to a rocky start, as construction crews accidentally…
Comment | Museums are civic institutions. It’s time we acted like it – The Art Newspaper
As a museum director, I am in constant conversation with staff, peers and stakeholders about our shared concerns:…
Contemporary Jewish Museum puts its Libeskind-designed building in San Francisco up for sale – The Art Newspaper
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has decided to sell its Daniel Libeskind-designed building in downtown San Francisco. The…
San Francisco museum rejects permanent space in favour of site-specific exhibitions – The Art Newspaper
At San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid Center—a 1970s landmark and the second-tallest building in the city—a new kind of…
San Francisco Arts Commission votes to dismantle Vaillancourt Fountain – The Art Newspaper
In an eight-to-five vote on Monday (3 November), the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) voted to disassemble Armand…
More than 1,000 objects stolen from Oakland Museum of California in storage facility break-in – The Art Newspaper
A thief or group of thieves stole more than 1,000 objects from the off-site storage facility of the…
Contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues in Los Angeles – The Art Newspaper
In 2017, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, voted to remove an enormous bronze statue of the Confederate general…
San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora marks 20 years with a show about Blackness and the cosmos – The Art Newspaper
For its 20th anniversary, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in downtown San Francisco has reopened with…
Artist behind San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain sends cease-and-desist letter to halt its destruction – The Art Newspaper
A lawyer representing the artist Armand Vaillancourt has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the City of San Francisco…