Miami Beach Sculpture Sparks Controversy – The public is debating whether the government should use city funds to buy art after Miami Beach bought a $80,000 installation by Cuban artist Juana Valdés consisting of 12 porcelain rags. ( )

Breast Milk Performance Gets Artist Kicked Out of Fair – Anonymous conceptual artist OONA was kicked out of Satellite Art Show for staging a guerilla performance entitled, in which they produced breast milk in front of an audience and then put glasses of milk up for auction. ( )

Climate Activists Found Guilty in Glue Stunt – A U.K. district judge has convicted two Just Stop Oil protesters of causing criminal damage to John Constable's at the National Gallery in London. The activists , who taped posters of a dystopian version of the painting over its vitrine before gluing themselves to the frame, must pay £1,000 in damages. ( )

Patti Wong Steps Down at Sotheby's – After more than 30 years, Sotheby's international chairman is retiring. She helped grow the auction house's business in Asia to more than $1 billion annually.“Though I am stepping down-I will never go far,” Wong said.“Sotheby's runs in my blood; we will always stay close.” ( )

Met Gets $10 Million Donation – Philanthropist Adrienne Arsht donated $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to benefit the Met Live Art series, which is dedicated to contemporary performance. She gifted the department $5 million in 2020. ( )

Estonia Unveils Plans for 2024 Venice Biennale Pavilion – Sculptor Edith Karlson will represent Estonia at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Maria Arusoo, director of the Estonian Center for Contemporary Art in Tallinn, is commissioning the pavilion. ( )

Toronto Biennial of Art Names Curatorial Team – Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López will co-curate the forthcoming biennial, slated to take place September 21 through December 1, 2024. ()

Inaugural Prince Claus Impact Awardees Announced – The recipients of the first-ever impact awards include dissident Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Moroccan artist Hassan Darsi, Argentinian writer and prison abolition activist María Medrano, and Egyptian architect May al-Ibrashy. ( )

Damien Hirst Sculptures Decorate New Mayfair Restaurant – Five monumental statues by Hirst decorate the trendy new London eatery, including a winged lion, a unicorn, a Medusa, and a Bacchus. Accompanying murals by artist Gary Myatt put a -style twist on Thomas Couture's 1847 painting . ( )

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