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Dizzy, Nauseous Columbus Art Museum Workers Issue Complaints About Chemical Fumes

Workers at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio have complained to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about headaches, nausea, and dizziness thought to be caused by a chemical sealant used on gallery floors. As reported Tuesday by the Columbus Dispatch , the museum used the floor sealing product GT 275 during recently commenced renovation work on its Ross building, and employees have complained about fumes throughout the institution in the weeks since work began. A former gallery associate told the paper that several museum workers have called in sick and that the “maintenance team gave the workers information on the sealer and handed out N95 masks.” According to the Dispatch , which cited safety information from the manufacturer of GT 275, “Inhalation of the sealer can adversely affect the central nervous system, causing symptoms like drowsiness, dizziness, headache, nausea and ‘lowering of consciousness.’ Acute overexposure via inhalation can cause respiratory...
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Club Rugby Rugby Highlights Series: Raking It In

Celebrating community rugby 2016-25 in highlights. As we continue to go through our library of highlights clips, part 11 of this series for the first part of 2026 is looking at a compilation of tries that were scored by happy hookers. See below for these – clips are in no particular order.  Footage: Club Rugby,...
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Man Causes ‘Catastrophic Damage’ to Chihuly Glass Museum in Seattle

A man caused $240,000 in damage to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum in Seattle late on Monday night, according to a report by the local police. The Seattle Police Department did not name the man, saying only that he was 40 and that he was arrested for assault. The blotter report described the vandalism as “catastrophic damage.” According to the report, the man destroyed several sculptures of plants located on the museum’s grounds. Those sculptures are by Dale Chihuly, whose glass sculptures are highly prized. “Officers found large pieces of colorful broken glass on the walking path and scattered around the area,” the police said, noting that the man was taken into custody after security identified him. The police alleged that the man “threw broken glass shards at security,” though he did not hurt anyone in the process. Moreover, the man allegedly “also picked up a broken shard of glass and tried to stab the museum security officer multiple times.” The report came with picture...
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Court Decision Ends Dispute Over Who Actually Bought Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69.3 M.

When Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for a record $69.3 million at Christie’s in 2021, the winning buyer was quick to reveal itself: a Singapore-based crypto fund called Metapurse, which was founded by a man going by the pseudonym Metakovan, ostensibly with the help of another person who went by the pseudonym Twobadour. By 2022, Metakovan and Twobadour (real names: Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran, respectively) had split up. A year later, Sundaresan and his company, Portkey Technologies, sued Venkateswaran for trademark infringement, injury to business reputation, and dilution, related to the latter’s claims of being involved in the purchase of Everydays . Sundaresan claimed that Venkateswaran had nothing to do with the purchase, and had been only an independent contractor at Metapurse at the time. That dispute came to a conclusion this past January, when J. Paul Oetken, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, approved a final judgment upon con...
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Canada Moves to Secure the Final Frontier with Landmark Sovereign Launch Investments

In an era defined by intensifying geopolitical competition and rapidly evolving technological frontiers, Canada is making a decisive move to secure its place in the space domain. With a sweeping package of investments, partnerships, and industrial initiatives, the federal government is laying the groundwork for a sovereign space launch capability—one that promises to reshape Canada’s defence posture, economic trajectory, and role among allied nations. At the centre of this effort is a major announcement from the Honourable David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence, who unveiled a historic $200 million commitment to establish core infrastructure for a Canadian-owned spaceport—marking a defining moment in the country’s emerging sovereign space program. A Spaceport for Sovereignty The investment takes the form of a 10-year agreement to lease a dedicated launch pad at a multi-user spaceport near Canso, Nova Scotia, to be operated by Maritime Launch Services . Designed to support t...
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Egidio Marzona, Collector Who Built a Monument to the Avant-Garde, Dies at 81

Egidio Marzona, the German-Italian collector, publisher, and patron whose vast holdings helped define the study and display of 20th-century avant-garde art, has died at 81. He died Sunday in Berlin, according to the  Prussian Cultural Heritage  Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, or SPK). Unlike many collectors of his generation, Marzona treated archives not as secondary material but as  the core of the work itself , amassing not just paintings and objects but the paper trail of ideas—letters, diagrams, exhibition plans—that mapped how the avant-garde thought, circulated, and sustained itself. His holdings in both art and its ephemera focused on movements from the interwar period, like Dada and Bauhaus, to the postwar, such as Fluxus, conceptual art, and Arte Povera. Marzona’s holdings has since become foundational to how museums and scholars understand these different strains of art. His commitment to public access was equally defining. Beginning in the ear...
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Outgoing Tate Director Argues for Bigger Tax Breaks for Donors

Maria Balshaw, who in December announced her plan to step down from her role as director of Tate since 2017, said that UK chancellor Rachel Reeves should incentivize donations to museums’ endowment funds by offering bigger tax breaks to would-be philanthropists. In an interview with the Financial Times , Balshaw said, “The government could do a lot more to incentivise giving by very rich people, because British museums are competing on a very uneven playing field compared with US institutions. Rachel Reeves . . . should think hard and creatively.” She continued: “The arts are part of the public good so we need public funding, not just commercial and philanthropic. But we could make a real shift in terms of financial stability. A modest tax incentive for endowment giving would not be unaffordable, and it would be transformational.” In June, Tate launched an endowment fund known as the Tate Future Fund with aims to raise £150 million (around $200 million) by 2030. As reported by t...
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