The old windows in six side-chapels were designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc for the cathedral's 19th-century renovation and were undamaged by the 2019 fire. The president and the prelate want to replace them with six new panels chosen in a design competition, an option that a petition describes as "vandalism." - The Guardian
They routinely go viral before being debunked. They even occasionally win prestigious photography prizes. All of which has reignited a two-century-old debate: What exactly qualifies as a photograph? - The New York Times
An artist of impeccable character, he connected the group’s feuding factions, became an instructor and mentor to the impossible Cézanne, welcomed Georges Seurat and took up his pointillist cause, and even remained (until the Dreyfus Affair) on good terms with the irascible Degas. - The New Yorker
The oldest surviving depictions of the baby Jesus in a manger, surrounded by animals and shepherds and parents and such, go back to 5th-century Rome and Greece — and artists and artisans all over the world continue creating nativity scenes in a myriad of styles. - Hyperallergic
At noon last Friday. the anonymous street artist posted on social media that he'd installed a new piece — a stop sign with three drones painted on it — on a southeast London street. By 12:30, two men with bolt cutters arrived to take it down and make off with it. - CNN
The image at the centre of the 1893 design—depicting a pioneer with a rifle, a farmer and a Native American on horseback with a spear—has been routinely accused of glorifying the state’s role in westward expansion and the policy of “Manifest Destiny.” - The Art Newspaper
"A team led by scientists from England’s University of Bradford used artificial intelligence to determine that the face of Joseph in the Madonna della Rosa ('Madonna of the Rose') was painted by someone other than the Renaissance master." - CNN
Today, discerning which Warhol pictures are genuine is the business of authenticators, whose trained eyes and in-depth knowledge are supposed to be bulwarks against forgeries. Sometimes authenticators make bad calls, prompting other experts to weigh in and correct the error. - The Wall Street Journal
The thefts took place over 30 years, and many of the 2,000 missing items were among millions in the museum’s collection that had not been catalogued or photographed. That last point wasn’t new: a scathing investigation about the British Museum identifying several of its security weaknesses had been published in 2002. - ARTnews
Joanna Smith pled guilty to injuring museum property, punishable by up to five years' imprisonment; Tim Martin wants to see what a jury will say about his act and the "end-of-the-world climate emergency." The two splashed paint on the case of a Degas at the National Gallery. - The Washington Post (MSN)
The discovery and development of synthetic aniline dyes in the 1850s and the widespread adoption of color printing in the following decade made the brightly colored paper greetings, once hand-crafted and very expensive, available to regular people. - The Guardian
America's flagship television newsmagazine reports on the now-notorious trafficking operation by the late dealer Douglas Latchford that saw sacred statues, goldwork and other items stolen from historic Cambodian temples sold to collectors and museums in the U.S. and elsewhere. - CBS News
"The long-delayed reappearance of Luna Luna — with its Basquiat Ferris wheel, Keith Haring merry-go-round and installations by David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein — is drawing visitors from as far as Singapore, Seattle and New York, (and) plenty of Angelenos to the Boyle Heights neighborhood where it was recreated." - The New York Times
Each year, countless new artworks are made and historical ones come into sharper focus as events in the art world and beyond give them new valance. - ARTnews
The German-born Schmidt, widely admired for his stewardship of the Uffizi in Florence, acquired Italian citizenship last month; he'll be replacing French national Sylvain Bellenger at the Capodimonte in Naples. The other nine new directors are Italian-born museum professionals. - Artnet
