UK Considers Charging Museum Entry: Morning Links

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No more free lunches? Today, the British Culture Secretary, Lisa NandyA proposal has been put forward to consider charging foreign visitors to enter national museums in a bid to tackle a lack of funding for the arts, financial times Report. As well as museum admissions revenue, lawmakers will also consider a hotel tax, both of which were recommended by former Labor MPs in a review of Arts Council England baroness Margaret Hodge. Nandi told financial times The government is exploring “potential opportunities that could arise from museums charging international visitors”. The National Museum has been free and open to all since 2001 as part of a policy to promote tourism, but opinion remains divided on the issue. For now at least, British tourists can rest assured: any changes to the existing system are dependent on a new universal identification scheme that would require distinguishing between foreign visitors and British citizens. Until then, enjoy your free tickets.

Funding disputes. This follows ongoing protests by Canadian artists and arts workers led by the organization Artists who opposed painting washing (AAA), headquartered in Canada Azrieli Foundation Ending the pair Toronto Arts Foundation (TAF), The Art Newspaper Report. Protesters claim the Azrieli Foundation is funded by “genocide and land theft.” However, both the foundation and TAF said the termination of the funding agreement had nothing to do with the protests. AAA sees it differently. “This victory comes after two years of organizing and protesting,” the group said earlier this week. The Azrieli Foundation, a charity associated with Israel’s largest real estate company, called AAA’s accusations “baseless” and said it “condemns false, hateful and deliberately misleading mischaracterizations of our work and organization.” It added that it was “committed to finding new ways to work with TAF in the future”.

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First-day sales report will be released soon Art Basel Hong KongCash flow is plentiful—especially at blue-chip gallery booths—but confidence flows slower in the aisles. [ARTnews]

Could a skeleton recently discovered under the nave of a 13th-century church in Maastricht be the remains of Jesus? Count d’Artagnanwho inspired heroes the three musketeers Written by Alexandre Dumas? [L1 nieuws]

A 77-year-old Jewish woman from Laatzen, Germany, is seeking compensation after she said she suffered “anti-Semitic insults” after a collective exhibition of artwork in Indonesia. Peel the skin exist documenta kassel In 2022, it was removed due to its imagery being considered anti-Semitic. [dpa]

outsider artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), also known as Le Douanier (“The Customs Officer”), was not the “naïve” Sunday painter he is often portrayed as, according to new interpretations of his practice in Paris. Orangerie Museum In Paris. [ Le Monde]

this artison museum Tokyo unveils new outdoor commission from Chinese-Australian artist Lindy Leeas part of its sculpture project. [ArtAsiaPacific]

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Dive into the water, the water is warm. A new project in San Francisco Bay offers 30 artists free studio space for a year, and plenty of water for inspiration. art+water Starting this fall, new york times Report. More than 100,000 square feet of vacant century-old warehouse space on San Francisco’s Embarcadero waterfront is being transformed by local authors into new exhibition space, an art school apprenticeship program and a community event venue Dave Eggers and artists and educators. JD Beltran. The program will pair 10 established artist mentors with 20 San Francisco artists who want to learn from them—all for free. Artists may apply until April 6 . Eggers, who trained as a painter as a student, said the project was a response to “an issue that everyone here talks about endlessly — the mass exodus of artists from San Francisco over the past 20 years.” He added that Art+Water’s design goals are to be “affordable, revealing and welcoming — like, ‘This is how we do it. You can do this too.'”