"Organizers called Chipperfield's work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic and academic buildings to urban planning to residences, and including a recent addition to Berlin's famed Museum Island complex — 'subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant.'" - AP
"The reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors at the end of 2024, less than six years after a fire ravaged (it), French officials said Monday. ... Yet it will be too late for the Paris Olympic Games scheduled in summer next year." - AP
"'Due to huge demand for extra tickets for the Vermeer exhibition, the website is experiencing problems,' the Rijksmuseum announced on Monday. 'Ticket sales have been shut down until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are working hard to resolve the situation.'" - ARTnews
In lieu of splattering protected artworks with illicit liquids, XR printed a large banner depicting waist-deep floodwater in Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” (1642) in front of the original painting, commanding museum visitors to “rise up” faster than the sea. - Hyperallergic
I have to admit, ChatGPT’s summary of “The Case Against Art History” sounds convincing on first scan. It feels like it summarizes something in the manner of a typical academic abstract. When I reread it, however, I realize that what it describes is not very specific. - ARTnet
The Warhol foundation has argued that the appeals court decision renders some existing artworks “presumptively unlawful” and “could lead to the removal of seminal works of art from the public sphere.” - The New York Times
The tension between architectural expressionism and restraint is nothing new. Still, there is a kind of reckoning in the field of museum design with the realisation that the tourist-candy structures that went up in recent decades did not succeed in truly making the art institution more accessible. - The Art Newspaper
And that's not an accident, says former Montreal Museum of Fine Arts curator eunice bélidor: "I realized they didn’t care about what I was going to bring here. They just needed me as a good news story." - Hyperallergic
The wide-reaching fraud included three separate groups that traded fake Norval Morrisseau paintings back and forth and created fake certificates of authenticity. More than 1,000 paintings were seized and eight people arrested. - CBC
Some neuroscientists believe "that the mind creates an opinion of an artwork after dissecting it into discrete elements. Basic features, such as color and texture, and complex qualities, like style, are ranked and weighed individually to make a judgment." - Hyperallergic
"Critics say these shifts are purely transactional, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman trading the appearance of an open culture to paper over a dismal human rights record and buy political capital." - NPR
New excavations make the ancient site fresher than ever. But people have been digging at the site ever since the lava cooled."It has always been in a state of flux." - The Observer (UK)
“Social media corporations have become cultural gatekeepers with unprecedented power to determine which artworks can freely circulate and which ones are banned or pushed into the digital margins,” says Don’t Delete Art (DDA), a project created in 2020 that documents art censorship on social media. - The Art Newspaper
"Vermeer's production was certainly larger, so the hunt continues. ... Art historians have found it particularly difficult to track down Vermeer's work for a number of reasons: ... only half his known works are signed, and, most importantly, he remained relatively unknown outside Holland until the late 19th century." - The Art Newspaper
