{"id":127000,"date":"2025-08-07T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127000\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:27:10","slug":"morning-links-for-august-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127000\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Links for August 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tUCCA PAYCHECK? <\/strong>In Monday\u2019s Breakfast Newsletter<\/strong>, ARTnews enlightened our loyal readers about the crisis facing China\u2019s private art museums, including the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art<\/strong>. Corporate backers tightening their belts are reportedly to blame, as is the Chinese government\u2019s \u201cunwillingness to provide backing for art that does not fit in with the range of artforms that the Communist Party <\/strong>condones.\u201d It\u2019s now come to light just how bad the problem may be, with the UCCA, one of the oldest and most prominent non-profit contemporary art institutions in China<\/strong>, having withheld employee wages for six months. Art Asia Pacific<\/a> points out that\u00a0that most UCCA staffers had not received full wages from January to June this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tI AM PETER DOIGE. <\/strong>The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit<\/strong> has upheld a $2.5 million<\/strong> sanctions ruling in favor of the artist Peter Doig<\/strong>, marking a significant victory in a legal dispute spanning over a decade. The Art Newspaper<\/a> reports that the case started when Robert Fletcher<\/strong>, a retired Canadian prison officer, claimed he purchased a painting in the 1970s from an inmate he believed was Doig. However, Doig denied ever creating the work and proved he had never been imprisoned in Canada<\/strong>, as he was a teenager living in Toronto<\/strong> at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office<\/strong> has announced the recent repatriation of several antiquities to Italy<\/strong>, Spain<\/strong>, and Hungary<\/strong>, with some dating to the 6th century BCE. <\/strong>The objects were recovered amid\u00a0 criminal investigations into multiple antiquities trafficking networks. [Manhattan DA<\/a>]\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDenmark<\/strong> is debating the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as \u201cugly and pornographic<\/strong>\u201d and \u201ca man\u2019s hot dream of what a woman should look like.\u201d [Guardian<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe State Museum of Pennsylvania<\/strong> has closed its extensive Native American <\/strong>collection in compliance with a federal law mandating the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural items held by federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funding. [Penn Live<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tAn incredibly rare first edition of JRR Tolkein\u2019<\/strong>s classic\u00a0The Hobbit<\/strong> was sold for \u00a343,000 ($57,000) at a local auction house in Bristol, UK. [Artnet News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tFRICKIN\u2019 FUNNY. Just in case the $220 million spent on the Frick Collection<\/a>\u2019s revamp wasn\u2019t enough to entice visitors to its Fifth Avenue\u00a0building, the museum has enlisted the services of comedian Steve Martin<\/a> to wax lyrical about the artwork on show. As Hyperallergic<\/a> reports, in a video posted on the Frick\u2019s website and social media, Martin strolls through the ornate galleries, offering a playful take on the museum\u2019s history and its founder, steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, a prominent industrialist with a controversial legacy tied to labor suppression. \u201cConsider what you or I might be drawn to on any given day at the Frick Collection,\u201d Martin muses, highlighting quirky details like the gilded beard of a 15th-century Hercules sculpture. The museum had spent five years in temporary quarters at the Marcel Breuer-designed building on Madison Avenue, the former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since returning to its original location in April, the Frick Collection has welcomed 231,972 visitors, a sign that both the makeover and Martin\u2019s charm are drawing crowds back to this beloved New York institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. The Headlines UCCA PAYCHECK? In Monday\u2019s Breakfast Newsletter,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,77836,56680,77837,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-127000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-frick-collection","13":"tag-steve-martin","14":"tag-ucca-center-for-contemporary-art","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114988898324465083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}