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James Gillray, Napoleon bakt een nieuwe portie koningen, 1806.
COURTESY RIJKSMUSEUM
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International Affairs
Critic Jason Farago sat down with philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne, artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, and art historian Cécile Fromont to discuss a French report that calls for thousands of artworks acquired from Africa during the colonial period to be restituted. [The New York Times]
Many cultural figures have been imprisoned as a result of China’s wide-ranging campaign against the Uyghurs, which has seen an estimated 1 million members of the ethnic group held in “re-education” camps. Visual artists are reportedly facing less persecution than writers and some other figures because the Chinese government is targeting use of the Uyghur language, Lisa Movius reports. [The Art Newspaper]
The Uffizi in Florence, Italy, has been mounting a robust campaign to win the return of a painting by Jan van Huysum that it says Nazi soldiers took some 75 years ago. The work is reportedly held today by a German family. [The New York Times]
The Law
A lawsuit concerning the sale of paintings and sculptures by the late artist Derek Jarman has been settled, meaning that a retrospective of the artist’s work at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in November is on. [The Art Newspaper]
R.I.P.
Hector Xtravaganza, the “icon of New York City’s underground ballroom scene” and AIDS activist, who was also “a mentor for countless trans and queer people, many of whom were estranged by the families they were born into,” died on December 30. [Artforum]
Museums
The Louvre reported that it received 10.2 million visitors last year, an all-time record driven by interest in its Delacroix show and the promotional power of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who filmed a widely viewed music video there. [The Guardian]
The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum in Arkansas has received a $12 million endowment from the Windgate Foundation. [Southwest Times Record]
The director and former director of the Erie Art Museum in Pennsylvania debated the sale of works from its holdings at auction on New Year’s Day. [GoErie.com]
On this day in 1973, the inimitable conceptual artist Tom Marioni claimed that he had been named director of the San Francisco Museum of Art. A piece delivering that announcement now resides in the museum’s collection. [@SFMOMA/Twitter]
Danger
Be careful out there! A man who climbed part of a monument to George Washington in Philadelphia to get some photos slipped and “fell on the antlers of a deer sculpture, impaling the left side of his body.” He is said to be recovering. [NBC New York]
Architecture and Design
It’s never a bad time to look at a bunch of bold and beautiful Art Deco buildings. Here are a number of them, as shot by graphic designer and filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman. [The Guardian]
Cake artist and sculptor Caroline Eriksson’s used gingerbread to create a quite terrifying Xenomorph (one of the creatures from the Alien film series). [Syfy Wire]
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