"Her husband Walter Keane fraudulently took artistic credit, while she painted for 16 hours a day to satisfy demand for the work, originally presented publicly as a joint effort, and always signed simply 'Keane.'" - The Guardian (UK)
Basically, the plaintiff sued the wrong entity - Cattelan's gallery and a museum, not the artist himself. So "the ruling still leaves the key question of the case in doubt: whether a fabricator can rightfully claim authorship of an artwork made on commission for an artist." - Artnet
And the result is a viral video set in a beautiful environment: "The performance takes place in Swords Castle, an early medieval castle in Swords, Dublin." - Classic FM
Why not? People often listen to Spotify playlists while cooking — though a recipe for kimchi fried rice shouldn't usually take as long as the nearly 4-hour playlist might imply. - NPR
"Hitchcock's fear and loathing of women is accompanied by a lucid understanding of – and even sympathy for – women's problems in patriarchy. ... His female characters were never underwritten, and in the case of Frenzy they are certainly the warmest and most sympathetic parts." - BBC
Composer Conor Mitchell: "How come these two men, so buttoned up and alien to empowered, liberated me, felt they could write passionate love letters to each other in a pre-Wolfenden world, knowing that each word could be used against them in court?" - The Guardian
After an eye-popping NFT sale for the Uffizi turned out to net the museum only €70,000, far less than half of the sale, the government worries that its museums will forever lose control over Italy's culture in digital environments. - Artnet
"Shelley's greatest gift was in the deftness with which he interwove the poetical and the political. Poetry had, for Shelley, of necessity to appropriate a political dimension. And politics required a poetical imagination. That was why ... 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'." - The Observer (UK)
The Museum of London - whose collection and attitude are absolute gems - has been squeezed into "an eccentric building" for years. Now "in a five-month blowout, the museum will host a packed programme of events" before moving to a new, larger home. - The Guardian (UK)
Ada Limón "assumes the role with two primary intentions: to use poetry to help people reclaim their humanity and to repair their relationship with the natural world. ... Instead of seeing nature as separate from humanity, she implores us to remember that 'we are nature too.'" - MSN (The Washington Post)
"In a quiet corner of the bohemian district of San Frediano, hidden behind an 18th-century iron gate that opens onto a whimsical wisteria-covered alleyway, lies a Florentine cultural treasure: the Antico Setificio Fiorentino." - The New York Times
"The country's small film industry has made 20 horrors in the past six years, with another two (this) autumn. ..." Says one filmmaker, "Irish folklore is particularly dark and lends itself to horror. Not a lot of happy endings – a lot of people being dragged to their doom." - The Guardian
David Bromwich: "In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon recoiled from the display of affection by the happily married: 'It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.' A great deal of the admired and well-rewarded art of our time consists of washing one's clean linen in public." - The Nation
