The Pompidou Centre’s economic model is unsustainable, according to France’s Court of Accounts. The auditing authority published its report, covering the period 2013–22, on Tuesday. Its president Pierre Moscovici told Le Monde that the Pompidou currently ‘does not have the means to finance its development and investment projects by itself’. The institution is under particular strain as it prepares... Source ..read more

Each summer the Met invites an artist to create a work for its roof garden, which opened to the public in 1987 and offers a panoramic view of the Manhattan skyline. Over the years the site has been transformed into a carpet of blood-red paint by Imran Qureshi, dug up by Pierre Huyghe and colonised by Cornelia Parker’s Edward Hopper-inspired PsychoBarn and Lauren Halsey’s futuristic Egyptian temple. Source ..read more

Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world, takes a rakish look at art and museum stories. It was the final to end all finals. A clash of two titans of the game. In one corner stood Lionel Messi, man of the people, cultured veteran and quite simply the greatest player the game has ever seen, desperate, after years of hurt, to win the most prestigious sporting crown of them all. In the other... Source ..read more

Roni Horn first visited Iceland in the 1970s after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been fascinated with the country ever since, as is evident in her ongoing book series To Place; the photographic installation You Are The Weather (1994–96), which features the same woman in various geothermal pools around Iceland; and Yous in You, a public installation in a Basel train... Source ..read more

In 1534 Michelangelo left his native Florence and settled permanently in Rome. At 59 years old, the artist already had some of the most famous works in the Western canon under his belt – the sculpture David, the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Creation of Adam, to name a few. Yet he would go on making art for another three decades until his death, including painting his masterpiece the Last... Source ..read more

The colour studies, concentric circle paintings and busy abstract canvases made by Wassily Kandinsky from the 1910s onwards are some of the most immediately recognisable works of 20th-century art. The Russian’s early work, however, is much less familiar. The Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo looks at the start of his career, exhibiting pieces mostly loaned from the Centre Pompidou... Source ..read more

When the Fitzwilliam’s rehang of five of its main rooms was unveiled in March, the Observer ran the story under the headline ‘“Inclusivity shouldn’t be controversial”: will a radical art rehang give Cambridge an unwanted “woke” row?’ Within a few hours, under the headline ‘Fitzwilliam Museum’s inclusive rehang “not woke”’, the Telegraph website seemed to confirm that, yes, an unwanted ‘woke’ row... Source ..read more

There is more than a bit of a sense of finality pervading this show of recent work by Georg Baselitz, who is now 86 years old. The title – ‘A Confession of My Sins’ – might imply the exposure of risqué material, but actually it announces a fragile but determined public instance of a great artist performing his own last rites in painted form. Baselitz has for some time worked with the canvas lying... Source ..read more

Language is slippery, and for an exhibition of visual art, the 60th Venice Biennale is unusually preoccupied with the stuff. Helmed this year by the Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa, the central exhibition borrows its title from a neon text work by Claire Fontaine: Foreigners Everywhere (2004–). Of British origin and currently based in Palermo, Claire Fontaine is not a person but a collective... Source ..read more

Former British prime ministers are not exactly thin on the ground: an unlucky seven roam the plains of the international speaking circuit. Copies of their memoirs may still lurk in charity shops but Rakewell was, nevertheless, rather tickled by the title of Liz Truss’s recently published, soon-to-be-remaindered effort: Ten Years to Save the West. Your roving correspondent counts themselves a... Source ..read more