The result is a skyline that’s no longer just a backdrop or a distant view or a pleasantly hard-edged contrast with the soft green clouds of woodland. Instead, it’s a constant presence, looming inescapably over virtually every corner of the park. - New York Magazine
Bologna's Garisenda town is in trouble. After sensors attached to the monument, which leans at a 3.6 degree angle, picked up “anomalous movements” last year, alarmed experts issued what one called an “engineering code red.” - The New York Times
The 947-year-old, 230-foot-long graphic-novel-in-embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest is actually missing one section; roughly eight to ten feet long, it is believed to depict the coronation of William the Conqueror on Christmas Day 1066. Who might have taken it and where might it be now? - Artnet
"A 55-year-old American attorney named Bradley J. Gordon and three Cambodian women working for him are at the helm of a broadening expedition to recover thousands of artifacts that disappeared from the country’s temples during a civil war, genocide and decades of turmoil that followed." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
“We turn a blind eye to the consequences of this extreme ‘biennialization’ of the city. Functions for citizens disappear and consequently citizens disappear. And the city disappears.” - Hyperallergic
News that the drawing is going on the market is likely to expand what has until now been a rather low-key, academic debate over the authorship of a work that has remained in private hands, and mostly out of the public eye, for the past five centuries. - The New York Times
"(Earl Marshawn) Washington ... was sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. He was also ordered to pay restitution to victims in the total amount of $203,240.90 and serve a three-year term of supervised release after his imprisonment." - USA Today
The Kherson Art Museum, which was looted by Russian forces in November 2022, says it spotted the items in its collection in a video shot at the Central Museum of Tavrida in Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014. - Artnet
The artifacts are sacred wood and stone altar tablets, or tabots, that were stolen by British soldiers during the Battle of Maqdala. The items have never been on public display. - ARTnews
As the chief curator, Conaty said she plans to focus on Latino and Indigenous artists, who remain underrepresented in the Whitney’s collection, and invest in emerging talent. But she also intends to slow down the pace of collecting. “Gifts are not free,” she said. - The New York Times
An attorney for collector Uthman Khatib says that the paintings — including works attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Natalia Goncharova, and collectively worth more than €100 million — were stolen from a storage facility Khatib rented in Germany. - ARTnews
"James Sheen, 39, pleaded guilty to burglary, converting or transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the same. … The fully functioning toilet" — titled 'America' — "was installed at Blenheim Palace in 2019 as part of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan called 'Victory is Not an Option.'" - CNN
The Mill at Limetz (1888) is expected to sell for between $18 million and $25 million at Christie's next month. The Nelson-Atkins owns only a two-thirds interest in the painting, and the heirs of the late owner of the remaining third chose not to donate it to the museum. - Artnet
"The information watchdog is investigating the British Museum over claims it has been overly secretive about some of the most sensitive items in its collection – a group of sacred Ethiopian altar tablets that have been hidden from view at the museum for more than 150 years." - The Guardian
From Jeanne Claude and Christo’s wrappings to Banksy’s newest tree, “public art requires us to be present, to bring it to life with our imaginations, to think about how it was constructed, what its location looked like before, and how the art ties in with what already exists." - The Guardian (UK)
