Pride Month did not arrive polished and corporate. It arrived at the end of a truncheon. A history of Stonewall, the first UK Pride march, and how Second Pride in Second Life carries that lineage into virtual space.
This week’s art news brought a surprisingly human set of stories: children being trusted in gallery spaces, famous painters revealed as serious printmakers, a heritage battle in Rome, and a quiet argument that arts funding needs to grow up.
David Sainsbury has donated £91.2 million to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. The gift will fund major upgrades, but it also raises difficult questions about philanthropy and the future of UK museums.
The V&A’s Rising Voices exhibition brings together over 70 works by 40 artists from 25 countries across Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is about time.
16 May is National Honour Our LGBT+ Elders Day. A day for the people who survived criminalisation, Section 28, the AIDS crisis, and decades of erasure. Their history is not decorative. It is evidence.
The Met and the Neue Galerie have announced a landmark merger for 2028, bringing Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and over $1.5 billion in Austrian and German modernist art under one roof. Commentary on custody, restitution, legacy, and what happens when a jewel-box museum joins a giant.