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In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. “It’s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to be clean,” the artist told T: The New York Times Style Magazine. “I worry about the kids’ safety.” The occasion for the interview was Holzer’s solo show at Musée d’Orsay, which includes an LED panel work that bears a message penned by the French writer Émile Zola in 1860: “I think of the future and see it so dark, so dark that I shrink back terrified.”

The intervention is responding to the university’s recent $3 million investment in more than 500 new AI-integrated campus surveillance cameras. A bedazzled surveillance camera on MIT's campus (all photos by and courtesy Claudia Tomateo, unless otherwise noted)

It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed if he does not get his way. Now, CNN reports that donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of layoffs. They are not convinced that the leadership, largely appointed by Trump, values the artworks as part of the institution’s holdings.

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The museum is bringing more than 160 artworks to Paris as it undergoes a major expansion. The post The Broad Is Sending Its Art Treasures Across the Atlantic appeared first on Artnet News .

Canada, an esteemed New York gallery, faced the threat of closure last year after a backer filed two lawsuits against the space’s founders. A New York court ruled that the gallery could remain open, and neither lawsuit appears to be active, with the most recent filings for both posted at the start of this year.