Australian officials will soon decide the fate of Tadao Ando’s “unrelocatable” MPavilion.
Tadao Ando’s MPavilion in Melbourne, originally conceived as a temporary installation, now faces an uncertain fate despite record attendance and widespread acclaim. City officials will decide in June whether to dismantle the structure—described by its supporters as “unrelocatable”—or allow it to remain in Queen Victoria Gardens. The outcome rests with a newly elected city council, which has not yet signaled its position.
The Warhol and Frankenthaler foundations have created an $800,000 fund to fill gaps left by NEA.
In response to sweeping cuts to federal arts funding, the Warhol and Frankenthaler foundations launched an $800,000 fund to support 80 small and mid-sized arts organizations previously backed by the National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) now-suspended Challenge America program. The initiative intends to fill a widening funding gap left by the Trump administration’s efforts to defund the NEA, which has already withdrawn funding from numerous significant arts institutions and organizations.
The story of Eileen Gray’s Côte d’Azur house is riveting—yet critics say the newest film about it isn’t.
Eileen Gray’s boundary-breaking design of E.1027—a villa on the Côte d’Azur later defaced and implicitly claimed by Le Corbusier—is itself a story rich in conflict, intrigue, and ingenuity. But E.1027, the latest film revisiting the saga, has been criticized as a curiously lifeless portrayal, lacking urgency and flattening the emotional stakes.
Alexandre Arnault has been tasked with fortifying Möet Hennessy’s performance.
Alexandre Arnault is in the midst of a major restructuring of Moët Hennessy after consecutive years of the spirits division’s declining sales and profit. His approach thus far has included layoffs, a tighter focus on high-end clients, and direct oversight of its private client business by Arnault himself. The once-crucial division now contributes just 6 percent of LVMH’s operating profit.
The U.K. government is exploring the abolition of the nation’s Department for Culture
The U.K.’s Labor government is reportedly weighing the breakup of its Department for Culture, a consideration that has sparked alarm across the arts sector as national museums and funding bodies brace for further cuts. Critics warn that folding cultural oversight into other departments would weaken advocacy, reduce budgets, and sideline the arts from cabinet-level influence at a time when they already face mounting financial strain.
Today’s attractive distractions:
At the Venice Architecture Biennale? A robot could play you a song or mix the perfect spritz.
U.S. applicants to the 2026 Venice Biennale may note some changes to the submission process.
Millennial culture is dead—and it has been for a while.
You’ve probably never seen Watergate quite like this before.
