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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 CHINA\u2019S RED PEN.<\/strong> The Victoria and Albert Museum censored maps and images in its catalogues following objections from its Chinese printer and state authorities over content deemed sensitive to Beijing, the Guardian<\/em> reports. The museum agreed to remove material from at least two recent exhibition publications, including an image of Vladimir Lenin and a 1930s illustration of British imperial trade routes featuring a map of China. In a statement, the institution said it was \u201ccomfortable making minor edits.\u201d However, the Guardian\u2019s<\/em> investigation suggests there was internal unease over the unexpected demands. An email reviewed by the newspaper from Chinese printer C&C Offset Printing, which produced the catalogue, said the original map had been \u201crejected\u201d by Beijing\u2019s censorship body, the General Administration of Press and Publication<\/strong>. \u201cOur suggestion is to delete this map or use another image,\u201d the email continued. The museum complied, but staff were reportedly baffled. \u201cIt\u2019s a historic map showing British colonial rule, so nothing to do with China, just shows China on the map and that seems to be enough to warrant rejection!\u201d one internal exchange read. \u201cSo sorry, must have been very stressful,\u201d wrote V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford<\/strong> after learning it was too late to switch printers and that the intervention had delayed publication.<\/p>\n HIGH MUSEUM HITS LOW POINT. <\/strong>Former chief operating officer of Atlanta\u2019s High Museum of Art<\/strong>, Brady Lum<\/strong>, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a federal theft charge, ARTnews<\/em> reports. The US Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Georgia <\/strong>alleges Lum manipulated financial records and approved fraudulent purchases to fund personal expenses, including musical instruments, private lessons, and workshop equipment. The charges stem from an internal investigation that found Lum misappropriated roughly $600,000 over several years while serving as COO from January 2019 until his resignation in December 2025. Lum \u201cbetrayed one of Atlanta\u2019s civic crown jewels,\u201d said US Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg<\/strong>. \u201cOur office will move with swift precision to prosecute individuals who abuse positions of power and trust to enrich themselves at the expense of nonprofit institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n German<\/strong> culture workers have signed a letter in protest of alleged \u201cattempts by politicians to intimidate freedom of expression and artistic freedom,\u201d via a new government policy of reviewing lists of jury members at art institutions, who are responsible for awarding funding and art prizes. [Der Spiegel]<\/p>\n \n\tA Financial Times<\/em> story about Sotheby\u2019s<\/strong> offering 7 percent interest to delay paying sellers their proceeds \u201crelied on creative interpretation of data\u201d and \u201ca mishmash of unrelated financial figures,\u201d to indicate weakness in the art market, argues market reporter Marion Maneker<\/strong>. [Puck, Wall Power]<\/p>\n \n\tThe California Science Center<\/strong> in Los Angeles has finished building a new space center, three decades in the making, and will display the space shuttle Endeavor<\/strong> in a vertical, ready-to-launch position. [Los Angeles Times]<\/p>\n \n\tAn activist with the group New Generation<\/strong>, wearing a face mask depicting German Economic Minister Katherina Reiche<\/strong>, glued herself to a coin display case in Berlin\u2019s Bode Museum<\/strong> to protest the government\u2019s economic policies. [dpa]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n DOOR\u2019S ALWAYS OPEN. <\/strong>The Financial Times<\/em> stepped inside the home of Rirkrit Tiravanija<\/strong> on the outskirts of Chiang Mai<\/strong>, where lush greenery spills through expansive windows and creeps into the interior itself. Much like his practice\u2014transforming museums into social spaces with makeshift kitchens and replicas of his own apartment\u2014his geometric, airy concrete house on stilts is designed for gathering. \u201cI think of this house as both a public and private space and, in a way, it\u2019s always open,\u201d he said. That ethos extends to his long-standing interest in architecture, now on view at Pirelli HangarBicocca<\/strong>. The exhibition, \u201cThe House That Jack Built,\u201d curated by Vicente Todol\u00ed<\/strong>, centres on installations inspired by modular modernist buildings\u2014\u201cthe mess that one finds hanging off a perfect Corbusier building,\u201d as Tiravanija put it. The show also includes a replica of his Thai home. For Tiravanija, the communal table remains a guiding metaphor: \u201cI\u2019m happy to make the table, but I wouldn\u2019t want to sit at the head of it\u2014or even in the middle. I\u2019d rather sit at the corner,\u201d he said. \u201cIn that sense, I think of spaces, houses, rooms, architecture, as platforms for others to react to and collaborate in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/va-censors-catalogue-after-pressure-from-china-former-high-museum-coo-pleads-not-guilty-to-theft-charge-morning-links-for-april-15-2026-1234781274\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2170792148.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. The Headlines CHINA\u2019S RED PEN. The Victoria and Albert Museum censored maps and images in its catalogues following objections from its Chinese printer and state authorities over content deemed sensitive to Beijing, the Guardian reports. 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