The sculpture by Daniel Arsham, a brand-friendly New York-based artist with his own fashion line, is really bad — but it’s interestingly bad. When you look at it, it just sort of collapses in your brain, like a bouncy castle pierced by a falling tree branch. - Washington Post
During the Games themselves (July 27-August 11), visitor numbers fell by 22% from the previous year. In the 11 days leading up to the event, admissions were down 45% from the same time in 2023 — not least because the museum was entirely closed July 25-26 as a security measure. - ARTnews
During a BBC profile of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, a friend of the ruler said that the painting, purchased in 2017 for $450 million, is currently in a Geneva storage facility and that MBS intends it to be the centerpiece of a Louvre-like museum to be built in Riyadh. - Euronews
“Something different happens in the mind when you create something that defies even your own expectations or ideas. I don’t think anybody who plugs in the prompts for this ship necessarily imagined that this was going to come up.” - Los Angeles Times
Rather than collecting domestic works, people of means wanted art with a richer historical past. They were seduced by the appeal of Europe’s long history of artistic production and its canonical creators. - JSTor
“We see a lot of fantasy-style art and stock photography, which then trickles into the models themselves,” Zivvy Epstein, a scientist at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, told me. There are also only so many good data sets available for people to use to build image models. - The Atlantic
Two disgruntled landlords spoke out in 2021 when Banksy sprayed a large herring gull on to the side of a Suffolk house they let to tenants. Garry and Gokean Coutts claimed that protecting the bird and repairing vandalism would cost them nearly £40,000 a year.
Over the last year, as money drained from the art market, young art stars around the world experienced dramatic setbacks that submerged their careers. - The New York Times
Located in Brú na Bóinne, a historical park north of Dublin, Ireland, Newgrange is thought to have been built around 3,200 B.C.E., making it 1,000 years older than Stonehenge and 500 years older than the Great Pyramids of Giza. - Artnet
“We aim to transform Powder into a multi-season destination that blends recreation, art, and meaningful connection for our entire community.” - ARTnews
The transition from print to online journalism has led to "chaos" within architecture criticism that has upsides as well as downsides, author Paul Goldberger tells Dezeen. - Dezeen
"There are already many skyscrapers, if the private sector wants to build them please do. But, the government does not make this a priority anymore." - Dezeen
Veteran photographer Jennnifer Bouma, of Washington State, has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Zillow Gone Wild. She took the photos in 2021 and copyrighted them in 2022; Zillow Gone Wild reproduced them on its Substack as well as its social media feeds in 2022 without notifying Bouma. - Artnet
“The decorated floor covering depicts stylized dolphins and several species of fish. It was located in a home likely owned by a wealthy and powerful family,” which was remodeled in the 3rd or 4th century CE, ensuring the mosaic’s survival. - ARTnews
Anna Dhody “is used to people associating her with the Mütter Museum, where she has been the face of the macabre medical history collection that contains more than 6,000 specimens. But a few months ago, she quietly left her post.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
