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JUMPING SHIP? Smack bang in the midst of the Bronx Museum’s very costly renovation mission, its govt director has determined to go away. Klaudio Rodriguez, who has led the museum since 2020, is shifting to Florida to take cost of the Museum of Fantastic Arts (MFA) in St. Petersburg. He was instrumental in getting the $33 million enlargement and facelift off the bottom so his departure could come as a shock to some. “It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with the employees and board of the Bronx Museum over the previous seven years,” Rodriguez mentioned in a press release. “I’m leaving the museum in nice palms and with an important crew.” Shirley Solomon, the museum’s deputy director, and its chief development officer, Yvonne Garcia, will function interim co-leaders till the following director is signed up. Rodriguez will take the MFA reigns from Anne-Marie Russell, who stop on March 1. Her departure was introduced in November 2023, simply over 12 months after she first joined the museum as interim director. He brief tenure got here proper after controversy linked to an exhibition of Greek antiquities on the MFA, lots of which have been revealed to have suspect provenance documentation.
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DAVID AND GOLIATH. A lawsuit filed by a cohort of artists towards Midjourney, Stability AI, and different corporations dabbling in AI has been green-lighted by a decide, regardless of some claims being dismissed. The artists declare that the favored AI companies broke copyright regulation by coaching on a dataset that included their work and, in some instances, their customers can immediately reproduce copies of their work. Final yr, a decide allowed a direct copyright infringement grievance towards Stability, which operates the Secure Diffusion AI picture generator. Nevertheless, he binned a load of different claims and requested the artists’ legal professionals so as to add extra element to them. In the newest, although, the revised instances have satisfied the decide to approve one other declare of induced copyright infringement towards Stability. Who will win, artist or AI corps?
THE DIGEST
How do you select which museums to go to in Paris? A protected guess is to ask the director of Artwork Basel Paris, Clément Deléphine. He’s within the know. [FT]
A museum in Tel Aviv is hiding its Most worthy works within the basement as Israel fears the wrath of Iran. Work by Pablo Picasso and Gustav Klimt are among the many works being secured underground by the Tel Aviv Museum of Artwork in case Tehran fires missiles on the Israeli metropolis as regional tensions flare. [The Times of Israel]
Learn how one in every of Japan’s most revered modern artists, Yoshitomo Nara, and others are subverting the nation’s cute “kawaii” aesthetic to query the world we stay in. [BBC]
A solitary gold coin could fetch greater than $1 million at public sale as an historical coin hoard goes underneath the hammer after a century of secrecy. [Business Insider].
THE KICKER
ONE FELL SCOOP. The Museum of Ice Cream in Manhattan is being sued by a person who injured himself within the sprinkle pool. Described by The Artwork Newspaper as “the millennial-pink, dessert-themed ‘experium’ that guarantees to assist guests ‘reimagine the best way [they] expertise ice cream,’” the museum appears to be like prefer it’s made for Instagram. Jeremy Schorr was visiting the joint along with his daughter in 2023 when he suffered “extreme and everlasting private accidents,” in accordance with the lawsuit. He claims the museum “did not warn… guests that it’s unsafe to leap or plunge into the sprinkle pool, whereas encouraging them to take action by its promoting, advertising and marketing and promotional supplies.” Schorr, who’s represented by the Staten Island-based private harm agency Perrone, additionally argues that there weren’t sufficient sprinkles within the pool. We’ve all been there, when the ice cream man is a bit of tight with the tons of and 1000’s. [Artnet News]