The Obama Presidential Center, while boasting an Oval Office replica and commanding city views, presents a meticulously curated personal narrative through its fully digital exhibits, bespoke design elements, and community-centric amenities, all rooted in the South Side and reflecting the former president’s vision for civic engagement.
As James Turrell prepares to unveil "As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace" in Denmark, a superyacht embarks from Monaco as a "traveling private members’ club at sea" featuring works by Marina Abramović, while Julian Charrière invites visitors in Tasmania to experience 2.4-billion-year-old oxygen.
Following its restitution to the descendants of its original Jewish owner, the Georg Kolbe fountain, with its complex colonial iconography, commanded €4m at Villa Grisebach, establishing a new auction benchmark for the artist.
Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss warns that the expanding interpretation of NAGPRA, now affecting diverse museum objects from ancient fragments to modern books, jeopardizes critical skills in fields like medicine and forensics by limiting access to historical collections.
Makeda Best, an art historian and trained photographer, will lead MoMA's photography department starting in September, bringing a scholarly and artistic vision to its expansive collection and future programming.
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