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from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

How Museums Are Future-Proofing Their Finances | Artnet News Museums are rethinking their finances as they adapt to a new landscape of donors, digital tools, and changing values.

How Museums Are Future-Proofing Their Finances
Museums face shrinking funds and shifting values—can they reinvent support for the future?

Digital Art Isn’t Built to Last—Could Data Co-ops Change that? The problem of preservation has haunted new media and digital art for decades. Art Dealer Kelani Nichole thinks she has a solution.

Digital Art Isn’t Built to Last—Could Data Co-ops Change that?

"These are not arenas of value creation that are concerned with preservation, conservation, and a view towards the deep future."
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Would very highly recommend a book by the CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, titled "The Coming Wave". It's both Frightening and fascinating in equal measure.

Israeli conductor for BBC Scottish Symphony arrested at protest near Gaza border

NEW: An Israeli conductor for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has been arrested at a protest near the Israel-Gaza border after calling for an end to the genocide

How will the flower bloom in 2100?

We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/

Considering the Context of Our Artmaking When Composing Response Pieces Shruthi Rajasekar reflects on the inspiration and responsibility of response pieces, including her collaboration with Corvus Consort.

"Response pieces give us the opportunity to view creativity as a chain of dialogues with the unknown."

In her essay, Considering the Context of Our Artmaking When Composing Response Pieces, Shruthi Rajasekar deals with the ethics of responding to past art.

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Statement from the Hillsborough Law Now campaugn regarding the news that the Hillsborough Law will be introduced to Parliament on Tuesday 16 September.

Hillsborough Law will include duty of candour on public officials The proposed law would force public bodies to co-operate with investigations into major disasters.

Hillsborough Law - the government has confirmed a new professional & legal "duty of candour" will be part of the bill, meaning public officials would have to act with honesty and integrity at all times and would face criminal sanctions if they breached it
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

National Gallery to build a new wing on Trafalgar Square site The gallery is launching an architectural contest to design a new wing for its expanded collection.

National Gallery gets £375m donations for new wing

Vor der Wahl ist nach der Wahl

Sotheby’s losses more than double to $248m as art market slumps Sotheby’s also takes hit from hefty severance costs, despite its headcount only dropping by 24 employees

Sotheby’s losses more than double to $248m as art market slumps

Revenues from commissions and fees tumbled by 18% to $813m in 2024. It follows a fall in spending by wealthy collectors amid growing geopolitical and trade tensions in recent years.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate? The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art

Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate?

"Tate seems to be a classic case of an institution that hit on a winning formula years ago and is trapped by the rules it set itself, stuck in routines that are no longer new."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Officials Are Racing to Evacuate Gaza Archaeological Finds Before Suspected Israeli Strike Archaeological artifacts were removed from a Gaza City building before a suspected Israeli strike.

Officials Are Racing to Evacuate Gaza Archaeological Finds Before Suspected Israeli Strike

"The removal occurred in the midst of ongoing threats of further strikes in Gaza, where Unesco has identified damage to 94 heritage sites surveyed by way of satellite imagery."
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

A symptom of a desperately unserious arts culture.

They'd sell well in Tate Modern: a coffee and gift shop with a gallery attached.

Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' came out 50 years ago today.

Hear a previously unreleased demo from the new box set: www.stereogum.com/2322753/pink...

A new painting from my Palm Springs series

Fictional view of reader in a grand library with large globe of the world

World of Design
Thomas W Schaller - Watercolor Artist
Watercolor - 30x22 inches
#art @bsky.art

Large oil painting in progress🔥

Tonight, Zack vindicated every new Green Party member. This is a reminder of why we cast our votes in support of his leadership.

National Gallery to build £375m new wing and lift ban on post-1900 art Institution to launch architectural competition after securing huge investment for revamp

National Gallery to build £375m new wing and lift ban on post-1900 art

"But the shift will create more competition for Tate at a time when the institution is struggling with declining visitor numbers and financial woes that have resulted in staff redundancies."
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Christie’s Reportedly Closes Digital Art Department Christie's is closing its digital art department, and has let go of Vice President of Digital Nicole Sales Giles, according to reports.

Christie’s Reportedly Closes Digital Art Department

"The NFT market has crashed and never recovered. In August 2024, 95% of NFTs were effectively dead, with the average owner facing a 44.5% loss on their investment."
www.artnews.com/art-news/mar...

"I kinda like this one, Bob. Leave it."

Francis Bacon, 'Figure with Meat', 1954.

Sonny Rollins & Jim Hall

Today is Sonny Rollins’s 95th birthday. He is* a jazz tenor saxophonist & composer.

(*retired)

Acquisitions of the month: August 2025 The first Marie Bracquemond in a UK collection and a group of Chinese prints are among the most enticing works to enter public collections recently

The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has become the first UK public collection to own a painting by the Impressionist Marie Bracquemond. Read Apollo’s monthly round-up for more details of this and other important museum acquisitions buff.ly/wg9Dcbe

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#Maxon #C4D #Cinema4D #Redshift #cg #cgart #art #animation #sounddesign #abstract #surrealism #vanGogh #ArtYear #ArtByHumans #CanadianArtist #BCArtist #BlueskyArtists

Police called to picket line at National Coal Mining Museum - Museums Association Strike by museum guides has been extended by four weeks in dispute over pay

Police called to picket line at National Coal Mining Museum

More than 40 workers, including mine guides who are veterans of the 1984 miners’ strike, have been taking industrial action since 20 August after rejecting a pay offer from the museum.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Beat bands, St George's Plateau, Liverpool, 1964, photo by Astrid Kirchherr and Max Scheler.

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon
#AngelaRayner #Labour

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.