A journalist who got immersed as a security guard and gallery assistant says, "I became initiated into the way that the art world wields strategic snobbery to keep people out. And I think it's deliberate and I think it's unnecessary." - NPR
The protestor painted on the wall next to Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, not the piece itself. However: Jackson Green "has been arrested and charged with defacing a memorial." - The Art Newspaper
Visual art "doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from a coffee table book, the camera can impose a distance from the art at hand – a secondary perspective that isn’t really needed.” - The Guardian (UK)
We’re almost a quarter of the way into the new century, after all, and painting didn’t die off as a great art form before Matisse, Picasso, Gwen John, Alice Neel, and David Hockney. - The Guardian (UK)
For one thing, stop with the dire warnings about density. "Today’s housing debate may be couched in different terms, but Australia’s first apartment boom suggests that opponents of rapid change in housing stock should tread carefully before making doom-laden prophecies." - The Guardian (UK)
The effect of the national concorso system is that successful applicants may be placed somewhere geographically inconvenient or at odds with their own expertise. ‘You may have a collection of Renaissance art and you are sent a curator that specialises in performance art from the 1960s." - Apollo
"Italy has donated a reconstructed Assyrian statue to Iraq in what (was) described as a 'miracle of Italian cultural diplomacy'. Constructed in the ninth century BC, the 5-meter-tall Bull of Nimrud was destroyed by ISIS fighters in 2015; Italian artisans made a copy of the monument using 3D-printing technology." - The Art Newspaper
When the group of "ultra-technologists" (as they describe themselves) called teamLab opened its flagship space in 2018, it drew 2.3 million visitors in its first year. That space, named Borderless, closed in 2022 for renovations and upgrades, has reopened to much excitement. - CNN
"Trellis Art Fund, a new private family foundation dedicated to funding artists’ practices, … will provide 12 recipients with $100,000 spread across two years. … Nominated by an anonymous board-selected group of 75 academics, artists, and curators based across the United States, the initial grant recipients will be announced in mid-July." - ARTnews
The 1971 lithograph titled Eve was stolen from a Manhattan gallery last September. Now the NYPD says that two of the three suspects were apprehended in December and the piece was found and returned; the third suspect remains at large. - Artnet
ArtTactic’s report states that the lower end of the market remained “very active, with an 18% increase in the number of artworks sold below $50,000” last year. - The Art Newspaper
Claims and counterclaims have spiraled across New York’s criminal, civil and family courts—sweeping in allegations of physical abuse, fraud and undue influence of the elderly. Ensuing trials and testimony from friends and family exposed generational rifts. - The Wall Street Journal
"To determine libel, the jury had to see his art. After the defense curated a viewing, the plaintiff, objecting to the dim courtroom venue, staged a second one offsite: cleanly hung, level, well lit. Out with Victorian cram, in with the white cube. Whistler won." - Hyperallergic
"Some of the world’s most renowned museums" — among them the British Museum, SF-MOMA, MFA Boston, and van Gogh Museum — "have been using the marketing research technique to fine-tune exhibitions, develop marketing materials and ensure they entice the broadest possible audience." - The New York Times
