Beneath Twitter's reputation as a shitposter's heaven, art lovers often prefer it to platforms that promote other forms of content (like Instagram), and artists use it as a portfolio and work-in-progress platform to showcase everything from drawings and pixel art to vector-based illustration and video game development. - Wired
In theory, artists can indicate that a file containing their work, whether it is digital art or a reproduction of a physical piece, belongs exclusively to them by registering it with a time stamp on a blockchain, a tamper-resistant database. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
Do art auction houses have a responsibility not to sell stolen goods? This case would seem to say there's no such responsibility. And the statute of limitations has passed. But the researchers are still on the case. - The New York Times
Or rather, the fashion of re-fashioning old things into new, what one might call the "use it up, wear it out, make it do" style, is back. And not just because of inflation, either. - The Observer (UK)
Can Los Angeles media ever represent the entire city - or even some of Black L.A.? "I remember begging news outlets to come and cover what we were doing for the kids. But the only time they would respond was when it was something that was negative." - Los Angeles Times
"In 2016, at 89, Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to help get Juneteenth made a federal holiday, which it finally was in 2021." Now Lee's Juneteenth collection, and her vision, have spurred the creation of a new museum. - The New York Times
Joe Monteleone was also born Deaf. During COVID lockdowns, he recreated Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station and "estimates he spent between 30 to 70 hours on each of the 12 squares, more than 800 hours in total. The station’s famous clock took four hours alone." - The Guardian (UK)
Two suspects were apprehended on June 9 after investigators determined that the oblivious pair had peddled the art objects—weighing in at around 2,200 pounds in total—to a recycling company for a few thousand euros. - Artnet
The Seattle Police Department, savvy to metal theft, one of the fastest-growing crimes in our region, quickly recovered the cut-up pieces of gate through detective work and a bulletin to scrap metal dealers. - University of Washington Magazine
The Museum of Rescued Art opened this week in part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian in Rome. Its exhibits will rotate every month, with various objects recovered by the Carabineri's admired "art squad" displayed there temporarily before being returned to their region of origin. - AP
"Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum trustees as well, was open to the possibility of an agreement with Greece — but only if the country was willing to compromise in some way." - ARTnews
"At least, that was the assertion made by a group of nine Italian senators in a July 2020 parliamentary session. (They) urged the Minister of Cultural Heritage to pursue the restitution of the artwork to Italy." The Cleveland Museum says this is the first they've heard of it. - Artnet
Their palaces and possessions are their trophies and their way of bragging to the world that they have succeeded. And they become the physical manifestation of their immunity from prosecution or public opinion. - The Art Newspaper
