- In the wake of the worst flooding Paris has seen in three decades, the Grand Palais exhibition hall reopened as floodwaters slowly recede. The Louvre, which had to move 250,000 works from their basement storage last week at risk of flooding, won’t reopen until Wednesday. [CBC]
- St Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum has unveiled a Rubens painting unseen for the past 80 years. “The Resurrection of Christ” only began to be restored in 2012 — it had become warped and darkened over the years — when the institution opened its own restoration center. [The Art Newspaper]
- The new website for the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) is gorgeous. The navigation has shifted away from prioritizing on the front page programming at CCA’s physical space toward a curatorial framework that brings new and old materials on contemporary issues in architecture. “Can a museum be a magazine?” asks Cincinnati Art Museum curator Brian Sholis. “Pushes the Walker Art Center model further.” [@briansholis]
- The rise of the surveillance age has inevitably led to a new cottage industry: stickers and plastic slides designed to cover up the front-facing cameras of our laptops, phones and even televisions. [Guardian]
- Seph Rodney recaps the American Alliance of Museum’s recent conference, which was focused on the theme of “Power, Influence and Responsibility.” The conference inevitably led to discussions around whether the large organization could truly enact policies that expanded diversity, as well as what portion of the museum field is hostile to ideas like intersectionality; according to Rodney, at one panel focused on museum jargon, the term was referred to by panelists as a “problem” word. One panelist even bafflingly said “I think it’s just a stupid-ass word. It’s pretentious.” [Hyperallergic]
- The nonprofit that coordinated the Panama Papers project is suffering cutbacks. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is moving out of its offices to cut costs, and has let go of three contract journalists who helped with the project. [New York Times]
- Only at a Japanese baseball game do characters from The Grudge and The Ring throw the first pitch. [Hypebeast]
- A eulogy for the “Internet”, the deferential capital-I term that was awestruck by the vast computational “information highway” network. [The Atlantic]
- “Why don’t organizers of for affordable space see arts graduates as partners? Because arts graduates haven’t demonstrated an ability to organize and contribute to existing movements for affordable spaces.” Artist, teacher and organizer Caroline Woolard outlines ways artists can contribute to the affordable housing movement. [creativz]
- Meanwhile, will we “remember the de Blasio years as the era when real estate ran the city”? Given that the administration has cut generous deals with donor-developers, and one of his much-heralded new housing zones, Flushing West, was cancelled, probably! [NY Daily News]
- Of course Muhammad Ali had a personal magician. [Vox]
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