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Drawing on Religious Renaissance Art, Marc Padeu’s Paintings Monumentalize the Quotidian

Drawing on Religious Renaissance Art, Marc Padeu’s Paintings Monumentalize the QuotidianThrough the immediacy of acrylic, Padeu renders everyday scenes on a monumental scale.

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The Getty Trust Is Selling $500 M. in Bonds for Increased Protection Against Natural Disasters

The Getty maintains earthquake and fire insurance, but there are concerns “such insurance could become unavailable at rates considered reasonable by the Getty Trust.”
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Smithsonian Fallout Continues, Art Institute of Chicago Didn’t Name Donor When Restituting Stolen Buddha, and More: Morning Links for April 3, 2025

Here’s what we’re reading this morning.
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Nancy Lupo “Princessletthewind” at Kunstverein in Schwerin

With “Princessletthewind”, the Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin presents the first institutional solo exhibition of the American sculptor Nancy Lupo in Germany. Lupo’s artistic practice is deeply connected to material culture, including language, and draws attention to our presence amidst everyday materials and spaces. The artist examines how collective fantasies, emotions, energies, and
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Carolyn Lazard “Two-way” at Artists Space, New York

Two films were shot in the same location: a simulation center. A simulation center is a controlled environment in which hospital professionals engage in a form of roleplay-based procedural enactment with one another and with medical mannequins. The practice of simulation is pedagogical in focus and centers on improving patient care. Both films presented in
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Siyi Li “Adonis” at Antenna Space, Shanghai

Born from the split trunk of a tree, Adonis is a deity of vegetation and rebirth in Greek mythology. The exhibition’s title comes from artist Siyi Li’s visit to the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, where he encountered Hendrick Goltzius’s Dying Adonis (1609). Hanging high above eye level, the painting captures Adonis lying on the grass,