It’s easy to dump on the contractors. But the contractors didn’t design this overwrought building, nor did they commission it. That falls to the Culver City-based Morphosis, led by Thom Mayne, and the museum’s board. - Los Angeles Times
After some art historical detective work, "the two artworks, which were once one, now hang side-by-side ... only a sliver of wall dividing the woman from her husband and son." - Yahoo News (AFP)
"We have changed our collective tastes in response to technological progress in the past. We’ll now do it again, without even noticing that it’s happening. And if history is any indication, our tastes will evolve in a way that rigs the game in favor of human artists." - Wired
Legal filings show that "one side of the family has accused the other of deceit and fraud, of secretly loaning the works to the White House as part of an effort to boost an ownership claim on them." Then there's the other side. - The New York Times
Multiple exhibitions in Istanbul seem to nearly predict the pain and agony of the recent earthquakes that have killed at least 55,000 people - partly because the artists understand "the fragility of the buildings people see as their sanctuaries." - Hyperallergic
Or so says the Metropolitan Museum of Art - which used to call the painting Russian Dancer. This is far from the only label to be rewritten during the ongoing war. - The New York Times
As anyone who has been forced to live in close proximity to building works for an extended period might understand, a growing movement of locals have grievances about the construction. - Artnet
"Scientists working on the scorched interior of Notre-Dame de Paris have found iron was used in the cathedral's construction in the mid-12th century. It's an unexpected discovery that changes how researchers thought the church was built, and provides surprising insights on the iron trade in 12th-century Paris." - Gizmodo
The British Museum was the most-visited art museum in the UK in 2022—and the third globally. It reported 4.1 million visitors, more than three times higher than in 2021, when it received 1.3 million. However this number is still more than a third down on its 2019 number of 6.2 million. - The Art Newspaper
Before dawn on March 18, 1990, two criminals dressed as policemen convinced a security guard to let them into the Boston museum, tied him up in the basement, and carried away 13 works valued at over $500 million. It's modern history's biggest unsolved property crime. - MSN (The Boston Globe)
Here's a chronology of the entire mystery, from the strange event two weeks before the robbery happened through all the tips, clues, and suspects, most now dead. - MSN (The Boston Globe)
Less than a week after the announcement that the Paris contemporary art mecca will have a satellite in Saudi Arabia's planned arts destination, AlUla, news breaks that the Pompidou is now finalizing a deal for a 129,000 sf museum to open in 2025 in Seoul. - Korea JoongAng Daily
"It is world of digitally birthed babies that pile pink and helpless atop one another, contained in rectangular digital totems, or kinetic sculptures, flowing in a virtual amniotic fluid in arresting, evolving, transfixing heaps. … And it's hidden in a nondescript factory in an industrial park." - The Post and Courier (Charleston)
