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Oops! We’ve Lost Our Rodin …

A plaster version of The Burghers of Calais, now thought to be worth £3 million, is one of 1,750 works owned by the museums of the city of Glasgow and now described as "unlocated." The sculpture was last on display in 1949, when it was damaged. - The Guardian (AFP)

Bomb Threats At Louvre And Versailles Lead To Tight Security At Paris Art Museums

Both venues were evacuated on Saturday after the threats came in. Heightened security will remain in place at least through the opening of Paris+ (an Art Basel fair) on Thursday. - Artnet

Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Suddenly All Our Photos Aren’t Real

As smartphones go, this integration of AI signals a new era, one created with tech that is intuitive to the kind of ferocious simulation the next generation is being engineered around, where a picture is no longer worth a thousand words but a thousand tiny fictions. - Wired

The Pilgrimage To Van Gogh’s Starry Night

One visitor to New York and MoMA from North Carolina: "I was in here for a long time. ... And I turned around and was like, 'Is this real?'" - Hyperallergic

No More Skeletons For The American Museum Of Natural History

The museum has 12,000 "human remains," many of enslaved people and Indigenous people, and it plans to take them all off display as urgent ethical - and legal - questions are changing museum policies worldwide. - The New York Times

Duchamp’s Greatest Fakery Was That Urinal

And not because he created it - likely that "R. Mutt" signature is down to German Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. - The Observer (UK)

Yayoi Kusama Apologizes For Past Anti-Black Comments

"My lifelong intention has been to lift up humanity through my art. I apologize for the pain I have caused." - Hyperallergic

When Public Art Is Funded By Corporate Interests (Yes, There Are Issues)

While publicized as an investment in art and beautifying the city, the location, impact, and funding sources of these murals seem to correspond closely with private real estate and corporate investments. - Metro Times Detroit

The Lines Between Galleries And Museums Has Blurred

In an increasingly difficult fundraising climate, dealer involvement in museum shows has become ever more prevalent. This begs the question: are the works we see on museum walls actually for sale? - The Art Newspaper

Painting Stolen From Glasgow Museum 30 Years Ago Has Been Returned

In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of items, all missing until now. Robert Gemmell Hutchison's painting Children Wading (1918) was located after being consigned to a Yorkshire auction house by unsuspecting owners. - BBC

Robot Fido Scours Pompeii And Finds Work As Tour Guide

After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of ‘Curated Decay’ - Artnet

How Images Are Shaping The Middle East War Narrative

In the 20th century, Americans saw war through the eyes of professional photojournalists and camera operators. Today, it is those doing the fighting or those caught up in it who produce its fastest-moving images, as soldiers and civilians alike film conflicts and distribute their acts of witness or advocacy. - The New York Times

Fluxus: An Art Aesthetic For Our Time?

Its practitioners, mostly in big cities in the U.S., Germany and Japan, attempted to dethrone art by putting its enactment in the hands of ordinary people. They created "event scores" that consisted of minimal instructions for art making to be interpreted as the maker chose, with process valued over final product. - Seven Days

This Seaside Resort Was A Retirement Haven Nicknamed “God’s Waiting Room.” Then The Turner Prize Came To Town.

"Locals are hoping it will change (Eastbourne's) reputation and place it on a (larger) cultural stage. But as shown by the experiences of other English seaside towns, big-city culture often dovetails with an influx of new residents and concerns about unfairly shared benefits often follow." - The New York Times

Art Bridges, Alice Walton’s Foundation, Gives $40 Million To U.S. Museums In A Program Called “Access For All”

"The grants, ranging from $56,000 to more than $2 million for a three-year period, are intended to fund programs to attract new audiences, whether that means extending free hours or offering free meals." - NPR

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