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The Headlines
ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION.  Artist  Mark Leckey  has set up a  remarkable-sounding temporary art school of sorts in Redruth, England, that is in the pages of the  Guardian . Called the  Music & Video Lab  (its focuses), the monthlong program has aimed to draw young people typically locked out of art school. “If you’re not from a middle-class background,” Leckey  told the paper  , “art school is still seen as something that’s beyond you. I came out of art school thinking I wasn’t equipped intellectually to be an artist.” It “has given me the freedom to be who I am without the fear of someone telling me that I wasn’t good enough, which was what I constantly heard at music school,” one student told the  Guardian . Leckey and his team are planning to host more workshops.
ON THE MOVE.  After 15 years at the  Cleveland Museum of Art ,  Tom Welsh  is stepping down as its director of performing arts, music, and film  to become managing director  of the storied  Big Ears  music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee,  Cleveland.com  reports. In 2019,  Steve Dollar  covered  the action-packed annual event  for  ARTnews  , and described a “supersize lineup of legendary composers, blue-chip contemporary music ensembles, rock heroes, jazz visionaries, electronic disrupters, drone mavens, folksters, punkers, and happy collaborative mashups of all of the above.” And in London,  Brett Rogers  is  planning to leave  the  Photographers’ Gallery  at the end of 2022, following 16 years at the helm, per  ArtDaily .
The Digest
On Monday,  President Biden  unveiled the first image from the  James Webb Space Telescope , which went into orbit late last year. It shows galaxies from a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang. More images from the device will be revealed this morning.  [NASA  and  The New York Times]
In a collaboration with  Google , the members of the K-pop sensation  BTS  shared some of their favorite artworks by embedding them in  Google Street Views  around the world.  V , for one, installed works by  Vincent van Gogh  and  Egon Schiele  in London.  [People]
After extensive rehab work over the past few years,  Nam June Park ’s 1,000-screen masterwork,  The More, the Better  (1986), is ready to go back on view at the  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art  in Gwacheon, South Korea.  [The Korea Herald]
What happens to temporary public artworks when the show is over? Journalist  Zachary Small  talked with  Pamela Council ,  Sam Moyer , and other artists about the harrowing efforts that sometimes have to be made to preserve pieces.  [The New York Times]
Painter  Ross Bleckner  will show new flower paintings with  Petzel  at the  ADAA Art Show  this fall in New York. “They are really about the movement of light and dark gliding along a surface and end up as abstract,” Bleckner said.  [Cultured]
Researchers in England are excavating a 5,000-year-old tomb known as  Arthur’s Stone  (after that legendary king) in Herefordshire. The project is a partnership between the  University of Manchester  and  English Heritage , which works to preserve the nation’s historic structures.  [CNN]
The Kicker
ART TALK.  Architect  James Wines , of the legendary firm  SITE ,  chatted with  Curbed  and shared what he termed an “amusing dialogue” that he once had with  Robert Rauschenberg  , when the artist hired SITE to renovate his Manhattan studio. “I had this idea for him to create an outdoor artwork on the very visible fire escape going down the back of his building,” Wines recalled. “His response was ‘Why would I want to do that?,’ which embarrassingly reminded me to never assume what an artist might want to do.” If only all architects were so self-reflective!  [Curbed]