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The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n ROUND TWO.<\/strong>\u00a0A sculpture at the new\u00a0David Geffen Galleries<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u00a0<\/strong>(LACMA) is once again igniting controversy.\u00a0Tlali<\/em>\u00a0(2026), a large stone work by\u00a0Pedro Reyes<\/strong>, is similar to another piece by the artist from a 2021 project to replace a Christopher Columbus statue in Mexico City that ended up being canceled. In\u00a0that instance, Reyes\u2019s sculpture depicting an Indigenous woman was rejected because the artist is himself not Indigenous. A similar controversy is now facing LACMA. In an April 23 letter signed by nearly 80 people that was published by the site\u00a0Cubo Blanco<\/em>, LACMA is accused of a lack of \u201cmemory\u201d for prominently displaying\u00a0Tlali<\/em>. A LACMA spokesperson told the\u00a0Art Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0that the new work is \u201centirely different in purpose and meaning\u201d from the 2021 work for Mexico City, thanks to \u201ca new location, context, and opportunity for discussion.\u201d\u00a0Michael Govan<\/strong>, the museum\u2019s director, also suggested the new sculpture may not be a female figure at all. \u201cPoignant, androgynous, fragmentary, and mask-like, the work echoes ancient American fragments in our collection, particularly avian and jaguar motifs characterizing Olmec masks,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n LOUVRE DIPLOMACY<\/strong>. In a lengthy interview with\u00a0Le Monde<\/em>,\u00a0Louvre<\/strong>\u00a0president\u00a0Christophe Leribault<\/strong>\u00a0revealed his plans for leading the Paris museum, which remains roiled by the October theft of its crown jewels, structural decay, and the ensuing departure of former president\u00a0Laurence des Cars<\/strong>. Though Leribault said he is \u201cnot here to undo the work of my predecessors,\u201d between those diplomatic lines, there are a few key points in which he clearly takes a different route. He told writer Roxana Azimi that contemporary art projects in the museum will \u201cundoubtedly become more occasional\u201d over the next few years, due to changed priorities. Leribault said he would reduce the amount of money spent on new acquisitions, which had come from ticket sales. Additionally, on May 13, a jury will select an architect who will design the Louvre-Nouvelle Renaissance renovation project, which was initiated by des Cars and is now in the process of being adjusted so that safety and security are more central.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tYesterday, the\u00a0Fondazione Giorgio Cini<\/strong>\u00a0in Venice opened what is billed as the last exhibition of new work by\u00a0Georg Baselitz<\/strong>, whose final body of work appears to be a group of monumental figurative paintings with golden backgrounds. Before his death on April 30, he filmed a video address about this series, titled \u201cEroi d\u2019Oro,\u201d which he intended to be his last. [Artist Statement]<\/p>\n \n\tLabor unions, grassroots groups, and artists are planning a May 8 strike to \u201cshut down\u201d the\u00a0Israel Pavilion<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Venice Biennale<\/strong>. [Hyperallergic]<\/p>\n \n\tThe forthcoming\u00a0Lucas Museum of Narrative Art<\/strong>\u00a0in Los Angeles has revealed the details of its first exhibition devoted to the \u201cStar Wars\u201d films. [The Hollywood Reporter]<\/p>\n \n\tThe remains of what is believed to be a\u00a0medieval ship<\/strong>\u00a0have been discovered in the Netherlands. [Medievalists]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n NO GOING BACK<\/strong>. Meet\u00a0Jaeyong Park<\/strong>, the envy-inducing writer from South Korea, who sees every single show at the\u00a0Venice Biennale<\/strong>. In an interview with\u00a0Artnet News<\/em>, he explained how and why he has managed, over the last five years, to tick off every one of the endless plethora of main, collateral, and unofficial exhibitions in the lagoon city during the Biennale. A lot of planning and a solid two weeks in Venice are key, he said. It should be noted that Park, who doesn\u2019t seem to be one for cutting corners, is also a novelist, as well as the co-organizer of Seoul\u2019s West Village Comedy Club, the Seoul Reading Room and art archive, and the Curating School Seoul. \u201cAfter years of rushed visits, I finally slowed down and realized just how different each show is in texture and tone. Pavilions you\u2019d never expect end up being revelatory, and you only notice that if you see them all. Once I had that realization, there was no going back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/lacma-pedro-reyes-controversy-louvre-morning-links-1234784216\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines ROUND TWO.\u00a0A sculpture at the new\u00a0David Geffen Galleries\u00a0at the\u00a0Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u00a0(LACMA) is once again igniting controversy.\u00a0Tlali\u00a0(2026), a large stone work by\u00a0Pedro Reyes, is similar to another piece by the artist from a 2021 project to replace a Christopher Columbus statue in Mexico City that ended up being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1924414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}