"Since March, the Tibetan-led campaign Our Ancestors Say No has been protesting the museum and collecting online petition signatures demanding the return of what they allege are stolen sacred cultural artifacts." - Hyperallergic
The decision was likely because they didn't actually vandalize any art: the two Just Stop Oil activists simply glued their hands to the frame of J.M.W. Turner's 1809 painting Tomson’s Aeolian Harp at the Manchester Art Gallery. - Artnet
That project meant finding trees comparable to the huge oaks used to make the original eight centuries ago, finding or reproducing the medieval tools and techniques used by the original builders (and locating workers who knew how to use them), and getting the complicated structure finished within the five-year timeline. - GQ
A junk dealer found the painting when cleaning out a deceased homeowner's basement on the island of Capri. The dealer took it home and hung it (his wife hated it); years later, his son had experts look at it, and they believe it's a portrait of Picasso's erstwhile lover Dora Maar. - The Guardian
Zoe Ryan will replace Hammer director Ann Philbin, who after transforming the museum over 25 years, is scheduled to depart in November. - Los Angeles Times
“The new owners have sold some one-of-a-kind furnishings that Wright designed for the building. And the building itself is up sale, listed on a commercial real estate auction website next to hollowed out strip malls and an empty Burger King.” - The New York Times
“How did a painting that was once coveted by museum directors and collectors alike simply disappear? And how can a work of art suddenly be deemed inauthentic, after more than a century of authenticity?” - Hyperallergic
Or his, of course. For instance, "Picasso’s palette from 1961 recently fetched £56,250 at auction despite being made of cardboard.” - The Guardian (UK)
Nothing good. “Is a commercial art gallery willing to risk litigation if it dares to offer one of Warhol’s Prince or Marilyn silk-screens ‘for sale?’ What if another commercial gallery across town is offering a retrospective survey of Goldsmith’s rock star photos or Korman’s publicity shots?” - Oregon ArtsWatch
Sure, it was cooler in the 1990s. And true, “the prize has sometimes struggled to find the balance between challenging assumptions and maintaining a sense of fun.” Yet … - The Guardian (UK)
The luxurious Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors from entering. It was forced to shut in May when one affected patron sued the gallery for gender discrimination and won. - BBC
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London and assaulted the very same painting with almost the same liquid. (This time they used Heinz vegetable soup instead of tomato.) - Artnet
A cursory glance at auction results over the last two years is enough to realize they have been middling at best, but JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy—which sold its fine art indices to Sotheby’s in 2016—quantified the decline. - ARTnews
