The art park (project? bioregion?) in France is a bit unclear right now. Luma "is a wonderland of good intentions. They certainly don’t pave the road to hell, but they do offer versions of desirability that are at odds with each other." - The Observer (UK)
Or was the graffiti artist after whom the NY Police Department sent a drone, a helicopter, and several cars actually the next potential Banksy or Basquiat? - Vice
Anna Härmälä: "I knew I needed to tell a story about this, but also I needed to survive. So the story has been bubbling inside for six years, and now it’s coming out." - The Guardian (UK)
John C. Calhoun's words about the Postal Service are, after complaints about the former VP's odious beliefs and a museum redesign, gone from the wall. All of the Smithsonian museums are doing a review, and "part of the review is looking at objects and wall labels, especially those that have been in place for many years." - Washington Post
During the internship day, decision-makers will familiarise them them with the workspaces of museum professionals, the researchers' rooms, archives and, for example, the reception rooms for objects. - Finnish Museums Association
The carbon dust technique — basically, painting with dust ground from the graphite of a pencil — enabled illustrators to show details of texture that were crucial to their images while letting body parts in the background remain vague in a way that photography can't do. - Forbes
"Prosecutors say Mehrdad Sadigh, a New York antiquities dealer whose Sadigh Gallery has operated for decades in the shadow of the Empire State Building, decided not to go to the trouble of acquiring ancient items. He made (thousands of) bogus copies instead." - The New York Times
Archaeologists using new measuring techniques have analyzed layers of a mineral glaze covering ancient figures in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and the oldest layer appears to date back more than 40 millennia. - ABC (Australia)
What’s changed is not that art fairs have been diminished but that the auction houses built broader sales and marketing platforms in the years leading up to the pandemic, which have turned out to be effective at serving a large new audience for art. - ARTnews
"Not one, not two, but three separate traveling immersive exhibitions based on the famed Impressionist's paintings are currently gearing up — and one could be headed to a city near you." - Artnet
When Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to Vantablack ("the world's blackest black"), Stuart Semple led a chorus of furious objections to the idea of owning a color. Despite plenty of puerile one-upmanship between the two since, the quarrel has led Semple to create some genuinely new pigments. - CNN
"Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, an iconic modern art museum designed by Bauhaus pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, reopened to the public Sunday after a six-year refurbishment of the glass-fronted building." - AP
The coronavirus strikes the show in DC again, for the second time in 18 months. "Museum officials pointed to international travel restrictions, the safety of the staff who would install the exhibit, and the potential that the pandemic could worsen." - Washington Post
Artist Leon Kossoff died two years ago, still hoping he'd see the 14 paintings and six drawings stolen in 1972. The truck that left London disappeared from Rome and was later found 17 miles away with the locks smashed and Kossoff's works all gone. - The Observer (UK)
