{"id":1986711,"date":"2026-06-11T13:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1986711"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:43:32","slug":"pope-leo-blesses-sagrada-familia-morning-links-for-june-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1986711","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo Blesses\u00a0Sagrada Familia: Morning Links for June 11, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/friezesign.jpg?w=1024&#8243;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-content a-content--offset lrv-a-floated-parent lrv-u-font-family-body lrv-u-line-height-normal lrv-u-font-size-18 lrv-u-position-relative\">\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   a-font-primary-bold-l   \">\n\t\tGood Morning!\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"container \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ukrainian drones struck and set on fire the Defense of Sevastopol museum in Crimea.<\/li>\n<li>Self-taught photographer\u00a0<strong>Duane Michals<\/strong>\u00a0has died at 94.<\/li>\n<li>Brussels\u2019 2003-founded d\u00e9pendance gallery is closing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   a-font-primary-bold-l   \">\n\t\tThe Headlines\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \"><strong>CRIMEA CULTURAL CONFLICT<\/strong>. Yesterday, Ukrainian drone strikes on supply chains to Russian-controlled areas also set ablaze a war museum in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, called the\u00a0<strong>Defense of Sevastopol<\/strong>,\u00a0reported<em> Reuters<\/em>. Images showed the roof of the 19th-century building on fire, and according to a\u00a0statement\u00a0by Sevastopol city official\u00a0<strong>Mikhail Razvozhayev<\/strong>, the museum\u2019s early 20th-century panorama painting by\u00a0<strong>Franz Roubaud<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>The Siege of Sevastopol<\/em>, was damaged. However, \u201cpieces\u201d of the original canvas remained unharmed, a museum spokesperson added. Meanwhile, in related\u00a0news\u00a0from the region, staff at Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Oleksii Shovkunenko Kherson Oblast Art Museum<\/strong>have identified an allegedly Russian-looted painting by artist\u00a0<strong>Nina Marchenko, made in 1986<\/strong>, taken from their collection in 2022, and currently housed in Crimea\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Central Museum of Tavrida<\/strong>. The painting was spotted in a photo taken during an official visit by \u201cthe occupation administration,\u201d according to a Kherson Art Museum social media\u00a0post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \"><strong>IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. Self-taught photographer\u00a0<strong>Duane Michals<\/strong>\u00a0has died at 94,\u00a0reported\u00a0the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>. His dealer,\u00a0<strong>Bridget Moore<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>DC Moore Gallery<\/strong>, confirmed his passing at a hospital in Manhattan on Tuesday. He is credited with shaking up modern photography with narrative forms often told like a comic strip, supplemented with his own, often poetic, handwritten captions and titles. He was inspired by autobiographical themes as well as by the works of William Black, Lewis Carroll, Joseph Cornell, and Ren\u00e9 Magritte. \u201cWhen I write, it\u2019s to talk about what you cannot see in the photograph,\u201d Michals said in a 2019 interview. \u201cIt\u2019s to augment the photograph, to give voice to the silence of it.\u201d Michals published over 25 books and exhibited throughout much of his career, which continued into his 90s, and included retrospectives at the\u00a0<strong>Carnegie Museum of Art<\/strong>\u00a0in Pittsburgh and the\u00a0<strong>Morgan Library<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>and Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in Manhattan. In recent years, he collaborated on short films with\u00a0<strong>Josiah Cuneo<\/strong>. \u201cI want to know what something feels like, not what it looks like,\u201d he once said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   a-font-primary-bold-l   \">\n\t\tThe Digest\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFrieze London and Frieze Masters have named nearly 300 exhibitors for fall fairs. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe beloved, 2003-founded Brussels gallery d\u00e9pendance (styled in all lowercase), is closing. [<strong>press release<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCharleston\u2019s <strong>International African American Museum <\/strong>is temporarily furloughing its entire staff, including leadership, in staggered increments between July 1 and December 31 due to financial pressures. [<strong>ABC News 4<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPainter\u00a0<strong>Khoo Sui Hoe<\/strong>, an influential figure of Malaysian and Singaporean art, died in his home in Arkansas at age 86. [<strong>ArtAsiaPacific<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOver the next three years, the Scottish government has pledged to grant \u00a356 million (nearly $75 million) to the\u00a0<strong>National Galleries of Scotland (NGS)<\/strong>\u00a0to build\u00a0<strong>The Art Works<\/strong>, a major interactive storage art space in north Edinburgh that will house over 130,000 previously \u2018hidden\u2019 works from Scotland\u2019s national collection, modeled after London\u2019s\u00a0<strong>V &amp; A East Storehouse<\/strong>. [<strong>The Art Newspaper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe\u00a0<strong>Phillips Collection<\/strong>\u00a0in Washington, D.C., has just landed a $15 million gift from the\u00a0<strong>Sherman Fairchild Foundation<\/strong>, the largest in the museum\u2019s history. [<strong>The Art Newspaper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSee photographs of\u00a0<strong>Antoni Gaud\u00ed<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Sagrada Familia Basilica<\/strong>\u00a0in Barcelona illuminated and surrounded by fireworks to celebrate\u00a0<strong>Pope Leo XIV\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0blessing of its newly completed tower 100 years after Gaud\u00ed\u2019s death. [<strong>El Pa\u00eds<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   a-font-primary-bold-l   \">\n\t\tThe Kicker\t<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \"><strong>HOME SWEET HOME<\/strong>. Heading to Europe this summer? Here\u2019s a guide to Italy\u2019s unique, smaller house museums, by\u00a0<em>Artribune<\/em>. There\u2019s the\u00a0<strong>Casa Mollino Museum<\/strong>in Turin, dedicated to the eponymous designer who lived from 1905 to 1973. It is located right in his self-designed apartment, conceived as a \u201cspiritual\u201d home. \u201cHere, one walks among walls covered with hundreds of butterflies under glass, mirrors that multiply the corridors, and a boat-shaped bed resting on a sea-blue carpet,\u201d writes Luisa Taliento. Or check out the labyrinth-like home of sculptor\u00a0<strong>Lodovico Pogliaghi<\/strong>\u00a0(1857 \u2013 1950) in Varese, who famously made the Milan Cathedral\u2019s main portal. In his eclectic studio and home, you\u2019ll find a life-size plaster model of the cathedral portal, as well as a collection of Roman glassware, antique fabrics, and Roman Baroque drawings. Read on to learn about the\u00a0<strong>Remo Brindisi House Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in Lido di Spina, and the 14th-century\u00a0<strong>Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo<\/strong>\u00a0in Arezzo, to name a few.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/pope-leo-blesses-sagrada-familia-frieze-london-and-frieze-masters-name-exhibitors-and-more-morning-links-for-june-11-2026-1234788840\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/friezesign.jpg?w=1024&#8243;] Good Morning! Ukrainian drones struck and set on fire the Defense of Sevastopol museum in Crimea. Self-taught photographer\u00a0Duane Michals\u00a0has died at 94. Brussels\u2019 2003-founded d\u00e9pendance gallery is closing. The Headlines CRIMEA CULTURAL CONFLICT. Yesterday, Ukrainian drone strikes on supply chains to Russian-controlled areas also set ablaze a war museum in the Russian-annexed [&hellip;]<\/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-1986711","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\/1986711","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=1986711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}