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See Video Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Being Stolen

“The heist of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 million gold toilet from a British palace was caught on video that was just revealed to the court in the long-awaited criminal trial, as prosecutors explained how the men behind it smashed their way into (Blenheim) Palace … in September 2019.” - Artnet

Buildings Of The Future Will Have To Promote Climate Healing, Says The Dean Of Columbia’s Graduate School Of Architecture

“The Madrid-born architect is spending his time at the university rethinking how buildings and cities should face climate change. He believes that we must commit to an 'interspecies alliance.’” - El País English

Marcel Duchamp: Still Relevant To The Art World?

"Duchamp may not be on the lips of many artists, over a century after his revolutionary moves in the art world, but he is in their subconscious.” - Artnet

Can An Artist Truly ‘Collaborate’ With Another Species?

"The majority of this art is still based on human manipulations of or interventions into natural processes — some of the ‘aid’ here feels, to put it into political terms, far less reciprocal than nonconsensual.” - Hyperallergic

The Mumbai Cooperative Subverting Cellphone Videos And Surveillance Footage Into Art

The CAMP founders: “You had 100 hours of footage for a 60-minute film. That was really the reason for building a non-state archive, and we’re the custodians and collaborators who think the 99 hours may be more important.” - The Verge

Guggenheim Museum Lays Off 20 Staff Amid Worsening Financial Condition

The cuts are spread over six departments, including advancement, education, publications and archives, but do not affect curators and top executives. - The New York Times

The Atlanta Public Art Project That Just Works

With more than 100 sculptures, art installations and murals, the Atlanta Beltline is the largest outdoor public art collection in the Southeast. It’s one of the largest in the country, the closest comparisons being New York City’s Highline and Madison Square Park Conservancy. - ArtsATL

A Literally Bacchanalian Frieze Is Uncovered In Pompeii

Found on three walls of a large banquet room and known as a “megalography,” the set of life-size frescos depicts bacchantes (female followers of Dionysus/Bacchus) hunting, drumming and dancing, along with satyrs playing flutes and drinking wine. The paintings date to the first century BCE. - Artnet

Again, British Museum Defends Its Sponsorship Deal With BP

“The British Museum and the Science Museum … said the company’s decision to grow its investments in oil and gas by cutting back on green spending would not alter their relationship with it. The two museums have come under fire from campaigners for their ongoing association with the company.” - The Guardian

Behold The Portland Museum Of Art’s Restored Monet Waterlilies

“The canvas that is returning to the galleries is remarkably changed, thanks to a conservation project that has radically de-varnished its surface. The effort doesn’t just restore the work’s striking tonalities for the first time in 65 years — it returns the painting to Monet’s original vision.” - Artnet

Wealthy Foreign Nationals Are Leaving The UK. What Will Happen To The Art Market?

UBS’s 2024 Global Wealth Report predicts that 500,000 millionaires will leave the country by 2028. The new tax rules, according to Henley & Partner’s Peter Ferringo, “rob the UK of billions of investment capital, especially for Americans keen to leave the US.” - ARTnews

A Scientist Explains The Cognitive Disconnect Of “The Dress”

A decade after the dress, we’ve learned a lot about how people could see a simple image so differently from one another. The dress is of particular interest to me as a researcher who studies differences in perception and cognition between individuals. - Slate (MSN)

Why Does Blue Capture People’s Imaginations Like No Other Color Does?

Surveys show it’s by far the most popular color worldwide. Not only is blue beloved of artists and designers, it’s referenced in the titles of countless books, songs, poems, and essays.  (No one ever writes monographs, or even songs, about orange or green.) - T — The New York Times Style Magazine

The Rubens “Samson And Delilah” At Britain’s National Gallery Is Not By Rubens, Says Scholar

Art historian Euphrosyne Doxiadis argues that “the flowing, twisting brushstrokes that are so characteristic of Rubens are nowhere to be seen” in Samson and Delilah — and that what we see instead is “bad craftsmanship. In the 17th century, it would be considered an unacceptable fiasco.” - The Guardian

Show Canceled By Museum Because It Was Labeled DEI

On February 10 museum leadership informed her that the Trump administration had labeled the exhibition as a “DEI program and event” and withdrawn funding for the show earmarked by the Biden administration. - Hyperallergic

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