Most Museums Will Probably End Up Keeping the Sackler Name on Their Walls
Murakami Is Teaming Up With the Chicago Cubs – The Japanese artist is collaborating for the first time with a sports team. Murakami is due to launch a special collection of Chicago Cubs merch at Wrigley Field today. Jackets, hoodies, and other apparel are emblazoned with a Murakami-designed Manga version of the Cubs’s famous bear.
The Turkish Activist Artist Zehra Doğan Is Detained in Berlin – The artist was detained in Berlin on Saturday along with fellow activists for staging a protest at the Pergamon Museum. Doğan and fellow artists Juan Golan Eliberg, Aurélie Gerardin, and Thomas Lamouroux were taken into custody following the protest and released that evening; they have also been banned from the museum for 99 years.
Why Most Sackler Funded Museums Won’t Follow the Louvre – The Louvre might have become the first major museum to remove the Sackler name from its walls, but it is unlikely that its peers will follow its example, according to the New York Times. There might be contractual obligations to keep a donor’s name on the wall, which were cited by the Smithsonian’s new chief, Lonnie Bunch. (The Louvre said its 20-year deal with the Sacklers had expired.) In other cases, institutions might have to compensate the family to rename their wings and galleries.
Wim Delvoye Says He Self-Censored More at the Louvre Than in Tehran – The provocative Belgian artist says he self-censored his work in Tehran—where his retrospective at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016 marked the first time since the revolution that work by a non-Iranian artist was shown in the country—less than he did at the Louvre. The Paris museum, where he had a show in 2012, would not let Delvoye show his signature tattooed pigs, he notes.