The 2018 Chaos Machine by the artist collective Distributed Gallery is an early example of a blockchain sculpture where the use of randomness and algorithmic code also classifies it as generative art. - The Art Newspaper
Greg Lundgren said that he heard “loud and clear” that the exhibition was not the way to have a conversation “around art, wealth and the future cultural landscape of our city” and that “big tech should not be viewed as the underwriters of our future health and vibrancy.” - Geekwire
Archaeologists have announced that they've discovered rock layers from the quarry whose granite was used to build the Byzantine Emperor Constantine's original church in the 4th century CE. Some loose pieces from the church's original mosaics have also been found. - Hyperallergic
The 17th-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, widely considered one of the country's most beautiful buildings, has suffered damage to the tiling and shape of its dome, likely due to the weight of the scaffolding erected around it for the restoration project. - Yahoo! (AFP)
A proposed change to the ornate Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress that critics say would remove the symbolic and functional heart of the 1897 Beaux-Arts masterpiece has landed the library on the D.C. Preservation League’s 2022 list of Most Endangered Places. - Washington Post
The Forbidden City Cultural Relics Museum, which opened in 2020 in a restored Yangtze River-front warehouse complex in Chongqing, had a large number of roof tiles slide off, leading to the collapse of one of the museum's several buildings. - Artnet
Twice the financially beleaguered school had secured a merger deal with the University of San Francisco, and both times USF backed out due to concerns about falling enrollment and continued viability. Still uncertain is the fate of SFAI's Diego Rivera mural. - SFist
This so-called revolution strikes at something many hold sacred: the relationship between artist and art, the meaning in an act of creation. What’s happening now is larger than the traditional tension between art and commerce, and it’s occurring at internet speed. - Alta
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York scatters recreations of what these statues ACTUALLY looked like throughout its galleries: they're painted in garish colors with multiple patterns. - NPR
The Museum of Rescued Art is rescued from thieves, from looters, and occasionally from natural disasters, or time itself. "I think of this as a museum of wounded art, because the works exhibited here have been deprived of their contexts of discovery and belonging." - The New York Times
It's "not hitherto unknown biographical or psychological detail, but an understanding of general artistic process that serves to humanise Van Gogh, to make his image less cartoonish, less grandiose, less ridiculous and pathetic." - The Observer (UK)
"New excavation findings provide an exciting glimpse into how early churches built within the period known as Late Antiquity were carried out while revealing insights into one of the most sacred sites within Christianity." - Hyperallergic
