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Kunstfonds Foundation Accuses Top Culture Official of ‘Interference’

Kunstfonds Foundation Accuses Top Culture Official of ‘Interference’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Jurors from the Kunstfonds Foundation, a prominent German body that funds contemporary art projects, have publicly denounced the country’s top cultural policy official after he requested the names of its current members. In a statement first reported by Der Spiegel, the art fund’s jury described the initial request from Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer, made in March 2025, as “political interference” that had the potential to infringe on artistic freedom of expression. Weimer plays a key role in shaping Germany’s cultural policy and oversees the allocation of millions of euros in federal cultural funding to grants, awards, and projects. The selection of awardees, however, is traditionally the responsibility of independent committees. Related Articles The statement’s signatories questioned Weimer’s nonpartisanship, pointing to his controversial involvement in the German Booksellers’ Award, where nominations are traditionally selected by an independent committee.  In this case, however, Weimer, who was appointed in 2025, reportedly contacted the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, seeking to exclude three bookstores deemed too left-wing. When questioned by …

Foundation NFT Platform Shuts Down After Failed Blackdove Sale (

Foundation NFT Platform Shuts Down After Failed Blackdove Sale (

Published by Jenni Sidey

Add one more casualty of the collapsed NFT market to the list: Foundation, a curated Ethereum-based marketplace that rose to prominence during the 2021 digital art boom. On Wednesday, cofounder and CEO Kayvon Tehranian announced in an open letter on X that the platform’s sale to digital art company Blackdove collapsed, leaving no viable way to keep operating. “Our goal in pursuing a sale was always to see Foundation live on—to find someone who would keep the platform running and serve this community going forward,” Tehranian wrote. “That’s no longer possible.” Related Articles Foundation has now started a “wind-down process,” which will see the infrastructure underpinning the NFTs and digital assets backed by the platform kept active for a “one-year window.” Tehranian urged users to start the process of migrating off the platform. “I acknowledge this is a disappointing outcome, but I continue to believe this community is resilient and better days are ahead,” he said, acknowledging that the “current state of the market” meant that there are no other viable buyers “worth pursuing.” Founded …

Guggenheim Foundation Names 2026 Fellows

Guggenheim Foundation Names 2026 Fellows

Published by Jenni Sidey

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced this week the 223 scholars and artists who received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most coveted honors in the arts. This is the foundation’s 101st class of fellows. The class spans 55 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, with fellows chosen from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants. Fellows are divided into creative arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. The creative arts portion has 30 fellows for fine arts, 19 for photography, 19 for film & video, 10 for fiction, and six for drama and performance art, among other disciplines. Related Articles Among the winners in the fine arts category this year are sculptor John Ahearn; new media and installation artist American Artist, who last had an exhibition at Pioneer Works in 2025; Kenneth Tam, who is featured in the upcoming edition of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1; Japanese German artist Kota Ezawa, who has had exhibitions at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Cummer Museum in Florida; fiber artist Sonya Clark, whose exhibition “We Are …

Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation Is Building its First Museum

Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation Is Building its First Museum

Published by José Betancourt

The Barjeel Art Foundation, the organization that facilitates the celebrated trove of modern and Arab art assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum in Sharjah, due to open in January 2028. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi announced the news on Instagram yesterday alongside a photograph from a recent visit to the 38,750-square-foot site on Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed Road earmarked for the museum, noting that Abdelmoneam Essa of Architecture Corner Consultants has been tapped for the project. Essa’s design draws on sketches and photographs by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi of architecture in the Al Rigga neighborhood, he added. Related Articles The Barjeel Art Foundation, the independent collecting institution that manages the artworks, has in recent years broadened its collaborations, lending works farther beyond the Emirates and engaging more deeply with regional institutions, in step with the region’s deliberate bridge-building. With a stated mission to deepen Arab art history while nurturing contemporary artists, it has made its holdings available online and regularly curates, lends, and publishes. Last March, during Women’s …

Khaite and The Judd Foundation Hosted New York’s Culturati For Dinner At The Last Cool Building In SoHo

Khaite and The Judd Foundation Hosted New York’s Culturati For Dinner At The Last Cool Building In SoHo

Published by Sam Flores

On a Wednesday evening in April—winter’s chill still lingering in the night air—a cast-iron SoHo building, 101 Spring Street, was packed. It’s one of the few addresses in the neighborhood left without a brand name on front: next door is Retrofête, a trendy New York based fashion brand known for their sparkly party dresses. Around the corner is the Museum of Ice Cream. And a Sephora. And a Capital One Café—a coffee shop chain by, yes, the Fortune 500 bank. It’s also likely the only building left that still retains mostly the same interiors as it had in the 1970s, when SoHo was populated with artists rather than the essentially elevated shopping mall it is today. And it’s definitely the only one that, at this particular moment in time, was filled with famous names like Aubrey Plaza, Grace Gummer, and Solange Knowles. They were all gathered there to mark the legacy of one man: Donald Judd, arguably the most famous of those aforementioned SoHo artists who once lived and worked in the very building they …

Human Rights Foundation Petitions UN on Behalf of Artist Gao Zhen

Human Rights Foundation Petitions UN on Behalf of Artist Gao Zhen

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Human Rights Foundation has submitted a complaint to a United Nations body that reviews detention cases on behalf of Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, seeking a finding that his prolonged detention is arbitrary under international law. Gao, 69, was arrested in China in 2024 on “suspicion of slandering China’s heroes and martyrs,” a charge tied to his longstanding sculptural practice repurposing art historical icons to challenge official narratives and mythmaking. That year, more than 100 artworks were seized during a police raid on his studio in Sanhe City, China, including ones such as Miss Mao, Mao’s Guilt and The Execution of Christ, which critique the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarianism and censorship.   Related Articles As the Human Rights Foundation noted in its April petition to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the three works were all created at least nine years before China’s 2021 law prohibiting “slandering” its “heroes” and “martyrs” was enacted. “Applying it retroactively to criminalize Zhen’s artwork shows the lengths to which the CCP is willing to go to silence dissent,” …

Actor Zhang Linghe, star of Pursuit Of Jade, mocked for looking like ‘foundation general’ in the popular C-drama

Actor Zhang Linghe, star of Pursuit Of Jade, mocked for looking like ‘foundation general’ in the popular C-drama

Published by Sam Flores

Chinese historical romance drama Pursuit Of Jade has been dominating social media, with constant buzz around the show and its cast. The latest talking point? Lead actor Zhang Linghe’s appearance in the show. The 28-year-old, who plays war general Xie Zheng (also known as the Marquis of Wu’an), has been getting flak for looking a little too polished on screen. With his fair, flawless complexion and refined make-up, some viewers have jokingly dubbed him a “foundation general”, even quipping that he “wakes up at 4am to do makeup before a 6am battle”. While the character is described in the original novel as “handsome and refined” with a “face like cold jade”, critics argue that the drama may have leaned too heavily into that aspect. Instead of a rugged, battle-hardened general, Zhang’s portrayal comes across as delicate and romantic, with some saying he “looks like he’s good at dating”. Source link

Sali Hughes on beauty: new foundation launches come with a lot of hype. Do they deserve it? | Beauty

Sali Hughes on beauty: new foundation launches come with a lot of hype. Do they deserve it? | Beauty

Published by Sam Flores

Three very big hitters have new foundations: one risky reformulation of a cult classic; one addition to a wildly popular skincare franchise; and one to launch a new brand from a beauty legend. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Let’s start with Armani’s Luminous Silk (£49 for 30ml), loved by many for its buildable, versatile coverage, and perhaps the most worn bridal foundation of all time. While I’m not against a reformulation in principle (technology, regulations and ingredients move on, and that’s all for the better), Armani does seem to have reformulated here for little discernible reason beyond Google Analytics. The new Luminous Silk contains the much-searched-for niacinamide, a beneficial ingredient in skincare but, to my mind, not necessary in makeup. Luckily, it makes little difference. double quotation mark This is a soft, blurry, ethereal-looking makeup in 25 shades, which sets softly – no cake, no chalk The new version is a tad dewier in finish, but nothing your usual setting powder can’t handle, and …

An Amateur Investigation Into The Magnani-Rocca Foundation Heist

An Amateur Investigation Into The Magnani-Rocca Foundation Heist

Published by Sam Flores

There is not a word more, no statement from those who lead the Foundation and those who work there. Visitors, however, can’t help but wonder how it could have happened. The French rooms: the stolen paintings and what remained The stolen works were located in two adjacent rooms, one larger and other smaller, far from the entrance. One must to go to the second floor, turn left, and enter the first door to the left. Following the theft, both rooms seem complete to unfamiliar eyes. To read, however, the visitor information sheets that are in each room, the three missing pieces stand out. There are names and titles, but not paintings. One painting was taken by thieves and then abandoned: it is another Renoir from the collection, Paysage de Cagnes, and it has a wall to itself opposite a Monet. On the same floor is the space dedicated to Giorgio Morandi, a very rich collection. On the lower floor, before the rooms for temporary exhibitions you pass by Empire-style furniture, masterpieces from Titian to Rubens, …

Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation

Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation

Published by José Betancourt

Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) has spent the last year and a half photographing the American landscape. That journey across the United States has culminated in the new site-specific installation, titled Red Metal Dust, at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. For it, the multidisciplinary Native American artist constructed 11 panels that layer landscape photography and copper sheets and filter American histories and landscapes from an Indigenous perspective. Related Articles These meditative photographic landscapes reference the Ho-Chunk tribe’s name for copper, a surface metal that takes on the effects of its surroundings and wear-and-tear through physical contact. On view through next January, Red Metal Dust asks viewers to consider the cycles of time—past, present, future—via copper itself. ARTnews spoke with Hopinka to discuss the impacts of time and human presence on the American landscape in this new body of works. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and concision. ARTnews: How …