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Björk at the Ruisrock Festival in Finland in 1998.

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Reykjavík’s mayor Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson saw MoMA’s Björk show and would now like to host the exhibition at Reykjavík Art Museum after it closes in New York on June 7. A MoMA spokesperson says that the museum has been “exploring opportunities to tour the Björk exhibition.” [The Art Newspaper]

The show “Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo: Italian Drawings from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt (1430-1600)” at Fondation Custodia is part of the 68-year-old museum’s initiative to become “the place to see drawings in Paris.” [The Art Newspaper]

Doreen Bolger has announced her retirement after almost two decades as the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. She will step down in June. [The Baltimore Sun]

A review of the new exhibition, “International Pop,”  at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. [The New York Times]

A British Museum show featuring Indigenous Australian artifacts is causing controversy—some Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects to be returned. [The Guardian]

During his visit to Jamaica (which makes him the first American president to visit the country since 1982), Barack Obama visited the Bob Marley Museum. [The Washington Post]

An interview with internet artist Molly Soda, who is dating a  5-foot teddy bear for her exhibition “Me and My Bear.” [Dazed Digital]

Ann Veronica Janssens’s pastel and glitter glass and mirror works at Esther Schipper Gallery in Berlin. [Contemporary Art Daily]