Morning links on August 15, 2025

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- Greenpeace activists unfolded the huge, bloody Anish Kapoor work on the side of the oil rig.
- The Imperial War Museum in London is accused of “soft massacre twist”.
- The family of late mixed media artist John Outterbridge has been sifting among the burnt ruins of his house, which was burned in the Greater Los Angeles fire earlier this year.
Headline News
High steak, ocean. Greenpeace The militants climbed a gas rig in the North Sea and unfolded a 315-square-foot crimson canvas during a dramatic protest with the artist. Anish Kapoor. The device is believed to be the first ever artwork to be displayed on a mobile gas extraction platform. “I call it a butcher,” the British sculptor told guardian. “It represents the massacre of our environment. At the core, it is blood on the canvas, a symbol of the destruction, bleeding, and a symbol of our planet’s state of existence.” The protests took place earlier Wednesday, after Greenpeace activists waited for the ideal weather, the rig operated along the Arctic sunrise approached the Arctic sunrise 45 nautical miles from the coast of Norfolk.
The uncomfortable truth. As Breakfast with Artnews London Imperial War Museum Refusal to change the information committee’s criticism Holocaust Gallery Two outstanding historians say that it is incorrect. audience Now the tradeoffs have been weighed, wrote, although “inaccurate” Nuremberg Race Law pass Nazi regime exist Germany In 1935, this seemed to be a smaller detail, a serious misstatement and had significant consequences. “It reflects an increasingly soft-slaughter-twist pattern, rather than a total denial, but a blow to some subtle, stable, uncomfortable truth,” the magazine wrote.
Digestion
An international team of researchers, Yamagata University In Japan and IBMIn collaboration with Peruvian experts, 248 newly identified geographic books have been announced Nasca Line. [The Art Newspaper]
In the new work Financial Times,,,,, Julia FawcettCEO Lori The Art Centre in Manchester, UK, is about why immersive art is not just a “unthinkable” “making money”, it makes money and audiences stand out from “real” art. [FT]
The patient is in Royal Birmingler in London Mental hospitals were once “swallowed” by the public, but now they are praised for their art. [The Times]
A new research project conducted by academics in the University of Toronto and University of Bristol scholars seeks to train AI models to mimic human responses to famous Artowrks. [The Economist]
Kicking
salvage and redemption. this Eaton Firetear altadena,,,,, Californiain January 2025, it caused significant cultural and historical losses. Family House of the late mixed media artist John Outterbridge On the shooting line. this Los Angeles Times Report on his daughter Tammy He had been living in it at the time, but fortunately unharmed, and is now sifting the burnt ruins with a group of artists in the hopes of saving some of her father’s artwork, archives and personal property so that they can build a piece commemorating him. “In my opinion, I could invite artists who were in direct contact with my father to the property and dig with me.” “Not only would they help me find something, but they also created a reflective work with what they found… people we call “bridges.” Today, Army Corps of Engineers The rubble was originally scheduled to be removed on Thursday. Tammy said, “I think dad is saying, ‘I taught you this language. Now say it.” “The language of some discarded things. The language of transformation and redemption. All of this feels redeemed for me. ”