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Help I Hate…Their Body Odour
Artworld Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen answers a museum worker whose colleague is making them feel uncomfortable... because of how they smell

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Staff at the museum’s new East Storehouse have attacked museum management about access to water and toilets during shifts, while a wider dispute over pay and working conditions looks set to roll on through the summer
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ICOM-US Backs Smithsonian Against Trump Pressure
ICOM-US has joined the American Alliance of Museums in defending the Smithsonian, weeks after its parent body strengthened its rules on museum independence

Siena Puts Teodora Axente’s Madonna on Trial
The Romanian artist was commissioned to paint the Palio’s sacred banner. A standing ovation quickly gave way to controversy over her commanding depiction of the Virgin

Aperture Reveals Programme for New Permanent New York Home
The photography publisher will open its 10,000 sq ft Upper West Side headquarters in September, four years after announcing plans for the permanent space

Alvaro Barrington Wants You to Stop Playing It Safe
At his latest exhibition, the Caracas-born, Brooklyn-raised, London-based artist explains why he refuses to make what the market wants

Elvira Dyangani Ose to Lead Zeitz MOCAA After Koyo Kouoh
The former MACBA director will take charge of the Cape Town museum’s artistic programme as it enters its first new chapter since the death of Koyo Kouoh

If Sid Motion Couldn’t Make It Work, Which Galleries Can?
Sid Motion appeared to do everything right. Yet it joins a growing number of highly regarded galleries closing or contracting. If the sector’s success stories can’t make the economics work, what does that mean for everyone else?

Sid Motion Gallery to Close After Ten Years in London
The South Bermondsey gallery will close this autumn, with founder Sid Motion saying its financial position no longer allows it to support its artists

Art in a Gilded Peak: the Aspen Festival for the One Percent
At the second edition of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival, ambitious performances and pointed critiques of class and inequality unfolded to a select audience of extraordinary wealth
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Messy Business: Enter the Broker

The Forgotten Manifesto that Reshaped Native Performance Art

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V&A Workers Set to Strike Despite Hydration Break Concession
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ICOM-US Backs Smithsonian Against Trump Pressure

Siena Puts Teodora Axente’s Madonna on Trial

Aperture Reveals Programme for New Permanent New York Home

Alvaro Barrington Wants You to Stop Playing It Safe

Elvira Dyangani Ose to Lead Zeitz MOCAA After Koyo Kouoh

If Sid Motion Couldn’t Make It Work, Which Galleries Can?

Sid Motion Gallery to Close After Ten Years in London

