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Seattle Art Museum to Present Major Retrospective for Artist Ai Weiwei
The Seattle Art Museum has announced that it will present in 2025 a major retrospective for the artist Ai Weiwei. This marks the artist’s first U.S. retrospective in more than a decade and his largest-ever exhibition in the United States, a release from the organization noted.
“Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei” will run from March 12-Sept. 7. The exhibit, which also is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Seattle, will explore more than 100 works created between the 1980s-2020s.
It will feature iconic works from his career such as “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” (1995) and “Study of Perspective” (1995-2011), and will also debut works never before shown in the United States.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is set to make the announcement on Thursday, including a 5% budget increase for all national museums and art galleries.
She is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in urgent need of financial support.
Five museums in Yorkshire have been awarded funding as part of a £270m investment in arts and culture in the UK.
The Museum of North Craven Life, in Settle, will receive almost £800,000, while the Land of Iron, in Skinningrove, will be given almost £656,000.
Millennium Gallery, in Sheffield, will be awarded £315,000, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, is to receive £442,000 and the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, will receive almost £400,000.
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brand-new private museum to its ranks – PoMo, short for Post Office Modern. Its mission is to make art more accessible, challenge gender inequality in collections, and boost the region’s cultural scene.
Set in an Art Nouveau building that used to serve as the city’s post office, PoMo spans five floors and 4,000 square metres. The space is a product of the vision and personal art collection of Monica Reitan and Ole Robert Reitan, who’ve spent over two decades collecting works from artists like Simone Leigh, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Imhof, and Franz West. Ole Robert, who’s also a co-owner of the Norwegian retail and finance giant Reitan AS, believes art should be for everyone
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