The sketch, titled The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bank and dating from around 1503, was purchased by a Massachusetts man at an estate sale in 2017. It has now been authenticated as the work of Albrecht Dürer. - ARTnews
"President Joe Biden has reversed a Trump-era order requiring that any visual art added to government buildings must portray American historical figures or ideals — and not be abstract." - Artnet
"The exhibition space, called Kunsthalle Berlin, opened January 28 at the Tempelhof Airport, a facility that was built by the Nazis in 1923 and ceased operations in 2008." So what's the issue? Follow the money … - Artnet
The design also includes more than 80,000 square feet of exhibition space, a theatre, a library, artist studios, space for a visual arts preschool and daycare, an Indigenous community space and a 40,000-square-foot courtyard. - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
“After two years scanning covid charts, we’re doing the same with natural gas prices as the curve rises, with the life and death of Murano hanging in the balance,” said Andrea Della Valentina of the Seguso Gianni factory. - Washington Post
"It is called 'The Arts of Islam: A Past for a Present', and each of its 18 participating venues contains 10 works intended to challenge the image of joyless Islamic bigotry internalised by many French people … (and) save the young from the prejudices of their parents." - Apollo
It's not easy to do this, since people come from all over the world to see the classics, but the Florence museum's dynamic director, Eike Schmidt, is working to "get the dust off" and exhibit new art in dialogue with the old. - The New York Times
Questions abound: "Have these institutions acquired any works by Venezuelan artists produced after 2000? How many Venezuelan artists have fled the country? How many Venezuelan curators and scholars live abroad and hold positions in museums in the United States or wherever they have been taken in?" - Hyperallergic
"The building of Stonehenge was not a single event but a series of interventions in the site, beginning in 3000BC with the first earthworks and spanning 1,500 years – or 90 truncated human generations." - The Observer (UK)
The involvement of wealthy donors sets up a balancing act for the DMA at a time when patrons’ money is under more scrutiny perhaps than ever before - Dallas Morning News
Most Nazi monuments in Germany were torn down after 1945, but in Spain and Italy many of the buildings and statues glorifying fascism are still standing — and there are arguments over them to this day. What to do? The city of Bolzano in the Italian Alps had some ideas. - BBC
"After a granddaughter and great-grandson of the artist trumpeted the upcoming sale, lawyers for the family said Thursday that his heirs have not authorized the launch of any such 'Picasso NFT.'" Later, the business manager for the great-grandson, Florian, said, "Maybe we should have been a bit more clear." - AP
The artist has now admitted that the very widely reported sale of the piece (titled For the Love of God) in 2007 never actually happened and that the bedazzled bundle of bone has been sitting in a London warehouse all this time. - Artnet
The Academy Museum, like the Newseum before it, does an imperfect job of balancing two basic identities and purposes, one essentially self-promotional, the other more civic-minded. It is both a shrine and pantheon, and a space for exhibitions and education. - Washington Post
