Polly Watson
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 3, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Palais de Tokyo to Close for Renovations in 2027, Sparking Ire with New Temporary Digs (opens the original)
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Paris’s Palais de Tokyo will close for repairs in July 2027, necessitating a temporary move to a location that turns out to be hotly contested, French daily Libération reports. The noncollecting institution, which since its 2002 founding has been housed in a concrete structure built for the 1937 World’s Fair, recently revitalized its building and […]
Gagosian Temporarily Retreats from Basel, Shutters a London Location (opens the original)
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Gagosian will close its lone Basel gallery and has already exited its location in London’s historic Burlington Arcade, the Art Newspaper reports. According to a spokesperson, the megagallery will look for another space in Basel; the closure of the London branch is permanent. Gagosian has already erased mention of the outposts from its website. Both […]
Trump Administration’s Gaudy Gilding of DC Statues Divides Opinions (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump on July 27 showed off pictures on his Truth social account of two freshly gilded equestrian statues near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, opening the floodgates to a variety of opinions. The nineteen-foot-high bronze sculptures, now coated in 23.75 gold leaf, are two of four horse monuments that the Department of the Interior in […]
Chicago’s Renaissance Society Receives $45,000 Ellsworth Kelly Award (opens the original)
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The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a nonprofit organization founded in 1963 by John Cage and Jasper Johns, has announced the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago as the 2026 recipient of the Ellsworth Kelly Award. The $45,000 annual grant supports institutional exhibitions for contemporary artists. The museum will use the funds to mount a […]
White House Attacks Smithsonian for “Extreme Political Activism” (opens the original)
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The White House on July 4 issued an acidic 162-page report that accused the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) of “extreme political activism” and lambasted its leadership for having “explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political […]
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