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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. Liliana Angulo Cort\u00e9s<\/strong>, who led Bogot\u00e1\u2019s Museo Nacional de Colombia<\/strong>, died on February 21, aged 51, reports the Art Newspaper<\/em>. She was the first Afro-Colombian artist to direct the museum, which she diversified by including more Black and Indigenous artists. Angulo Cort\u00e9s also accelerated an institutional shift that prioritized colonial remembrance and the reparation of marginalized communities at the 1823-founded museum, one of the oldest on the continent. Among a myriad of responses to news of her death, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medell\u00edn<\/strong> said she \u201crepresented a shift in how Colombian contemporary art is understood.\u201d<\/p>\n BEIRUT ART SCENE SUSPENDED<\/strong>. Cultural centers in Beirut have suspended operations amid the escalating regional conflict, reports ArtAsiaPacific<\/em>. They include the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation<\/strong>, the Sursock Museum, Dar El-Nimer for Arts & Culture,<\/strong> and Beirut Art Center<\/strong>. Lebanon\u2019s ministry of public health reported that at least 72 deaths and 437 injuries following Israeli airstrikes in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon in response to Hezbollah-launched rockets toward Israel.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday, during a VIP celebration of the Guggenheim Museum<\/strong>\u2019s Carol Bove show, unionized staff rallied outside the institution for more secure contracts following 20 job cuts at the museum last year. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n Emmi Whitehorse<\/strong> of the Navajo Nation has joined White Cube<\/strong>. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n \n\tCould this \u201cCristo Dalvator\u201d bust in a Roman church be by Renaissance master Michelangelo<\/strong>? Art historian Valentina Salerno<\/strong> thinks so and apparently has documents to prove it. [dpa]<\/p>\n Kostas Stasinopoulos<\/strong>, the director of live programs at the Serpentine<\/strong>\u00a0in London, has been appointed director of Kyklos<\/strong>, the Renzo Piano-designed center for art and culture set to open in 2028 in Piraeus<\/strong>, Greece. [Artforum]<\/p>\n \n\tThe Louvre<\/strong> isn\u2019t the only major museum suffering from neglect. Berlin\u2019s museums are also victims of of poor visitor guidance and water damage, as in the case of the Kunstgewerbemuseum.<\/strong>\u00a0[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]<\/p>\n The Kicker <\/strong><\/p>\n THE OLD WITH THE NEW<\/strong>. Ahead of a Mark Rothko<\/strong> exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi <\/strong>in Florence, the museum\u2019s director Arturo Galansino<\/strong>\u00a0talked to the Financial Times<\/em> about his approach to connecting contemporary and modern art with \u201cthe modernity of the Renaissance.\u201d It certainly jibes with Rothko, who \u201chad a life-long passion and engagement with the Italian Renaissance,\u201d per his son, Christopher Rothko<\/strong>, who is curating the show with Elena Guena<\/strong>. In fact, Rothko was influenced by a 1950 visit to Florence, just as he was developing his signature style. The Italian connection is evident in the chronological show\u2019s finale, which concludes with the artist\u2019s large works on paper painted in \u201ccolors of the early Renaissance,\u201d like \u201cdelicate\u201d hues in sienna, blue, pink, says Galansino.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/director-of-museo-national-de-colombia-liliana-angulo-cortes-dies-at-51-art-centers-in-beirut-pause-programming-amid-war-morning-links-for-march-5-2026-1234775819\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/museum.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Liliana Angulo Cort\u00e9s, who led Bogot\u00e1\u2019s Museo Nacional de Colombia, died on February 21, aged 51, reports the Art Newspaper. 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