Liberty Mutual and Great American are refuting the claim submitted by the owners of the 25 paintings which were on display at the Orlando Museum of Art in 2022 until the FBI seized them and they were revealed to be forgeries. - Artnet
In a leaked memo to French culture minister Rachida Dati, Louvre director Laurence des Cars wrote that overcrowding at the museum is causing "physical strain" on the building and that some areas "are no longer watertight, while others experience significant temperature variations, endangering the preservation of artworks," - AFP (Yahoo!)
A 32-year-old Greek man discovered the artifact in a black bag in the college town of Thessaloniki and turned it in to police on Saturday evening, Greek authorities said in a statement Wednesday. - Washington Post (MSN)
The changes demonstrated a miscalculation of not just the economic dynamic of the art market—for which supply is harder to stimulate than demand—but also its psychology. - The Art Newspaper
The order, revived from his first term, says policies should ensure new buildings "respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces." No, that does not mean only Greco-Roman style. - NPR
"The judge gave the police permission to confiscate the drawings (by MF Husain) after a lawyer, Amita Sachdeva, complained that the artworks featuring two Hindu deities 'hurt religious sentiments.' … The two drawings showed the Hindu gods Hanuman and Ganesha alongside naked women." - ARTnews
Housing over 10,000 objects, it offers more than 600 years of history in its display of the treasures of the Bamoun kingdom, one of the oldest in sub-Saharan Africa. The museum’s striking architecture is dominated by a two-headed snake at its entrance and a spider perched on top of it. - The Conversation
"The Ghanaian-British architect first revealed designs for the National Cathedral of Ghana in 2018. In the years since, the cathedral has been fiercely debated among Ghanaian politicians, who have raised questions about its (cost and) funding" — more so now that construction appeared to have halted. - ARTnews
"Fully one-fifth of respondents indicated that censorship is 'a very big problem.' Nearly three-quarters judged it 'somewhat of a problem,' and 55 percent say that, compared to 10 years ago, censorship is a 'much bigger problem for museums today.' … (Yet) "90 percent of respondents do not have a written censorship policy." - Artnet
"It is a sprawling, chaotic reflection of Britain’s psyche over 300 years: its voracious curiosity and cultural relativism; its pugnacious superiority complex; its restless seafaring and trading; its cruel imperial enrichment; its brilliant scholarship, its brutality, its idealism, its postcolonial anxiety." - The Guardian
"The newly unearthed spa complex comprises the classic Roman trio of thermal rooms — calidarium (hot), tepidarium (warm), and frigidarium (cold) — alongside a spacious apodyterium (changing room). … The remarkable discovery, located in insula 10, offers a rare glimpse into how wealthy Romans fused leisure, art, and political ambition within their homes." - Euronews
Because now, of course, artists and the arts really need money. And then there’s hope. “It’s an important moment to give people a sense that we’re rebuilding, that there’s something to show up for. … It’s crucial.” - Hyperallergic
“Both activities involve storytelling. Both involve putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. And both depend on properly balancing evidence and emotion, comprehensiveness and concision, provocation, and restraint.” - Fast Company
And not just with The Brutalist, either. Recall: “There was a time, in the 1980s, when a writer in a national newspaper demanded that practitioners of brutalism be ‘taken out and shot.’”- The Observer (UK)
“It was an improbable place. An artist collective known as JJU, or John Joyce University, hidden in the foothills of Altadena, resembled a 1960s fever dream of communal living.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
