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Signatories of the open letter supporting ten point-plan to save La Serenissima also include the artist Anish Kapoor and The Art Newspaper's founding editor Anna Somers Cocks

Plus, Yale School of Art has a new dean and Sothebys teams up with... Burning Man? June 3, 2021 Mick Jagger at the 76th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 7, 2019 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Matteo Chinellato/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, June 3. NEED-TO-READ Kymberly Pinder Chosen to Lead the Yale School of Art –�...

Open letter signed by 21 high-profile personalities after news that cruise ship will sail past St Mark’s Square

As the art world lavished praise on the Museum of Fine Arts for its bold plans, employees tell a very different story.

New French restaurant with Michelin cred blooms in Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Refined new French restaurant with Michelin cred blooms in MFAH Photo by Ricardo Mejia Installation view of Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Color Flash for Chat and Chew, Paris Texas in Seventy-Two, 2019–2020.  Photo by Thomas Dubrock, courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Beet and kale salad. A fine dining restaurant with a Michelin star pedigree arrives in Houston next month. Le Jardinier will open ...

Sam Gilliam, Double Merge (1968). Installation view, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York, 2019. © Sam Gilliam/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Courtesy of Dia Art Foundation. There is no joy in possession without sharing, Erasmus once said—and it’s a lesson museums are learning. The Dia Art Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, have jointly acquired an early landmark work by Sam Gilliam, which the two institutions will share moving forwar...

For more than half a century, Alan Bowness was a leading public figure in the art world in Britain, predominantly as writer, lecturer, curator, administrator and philanthropist. He was the first trained art historian to become Director of the Tate Gallery, in London, where he made an invaluable and lasting contribution in the relatively short time that he held the post. Bowness was born in London in 1928, educated at University College School, London, following which he did his National ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, appoints Christian Schörnich as Chief Operating Officer Schörnich comes to the Museum from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the past five years. HOUSTON, TX .- Gary Tinterow, Director, the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced the appointment of Christian Schörnich as the Chief Operating Officer. Schörnich comes to the Museum from the Pitts...

The Gray Market: Why ‘Global Weirding’ Makes Art Museums Needier Than Ever for Unglamorous Donations (and Other Insights) Our columnist connects a devastating winter storm in Texas, climate change, and a longstanding drought within cultural philanthropy. February 22, 2021 Icicles hanging off the State Highway 195 sign in Killeen, Texas after the historic winter storm of February 2021. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Every Monday morning, Artnet News brings you The Gray Market. The colum...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Hockney-Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature David Hockney, Woldgate Vista, 27 July 2005, oil on canvas, David Hockney Inc. © David Hockney / photo: Richard Schmidt. HOUSTON, TX .- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will examine the common ground between David Hockney (English, born 1937) and Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) in Hockney-Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature. The exhibition reveals Van Gogh’s unmistakable influence on Hockney’s work through a collect...