Erik af Klint, the artist’s great-grandnephew and the current chairman of her foundation, wants to see her work removed from museum exhibitions and installed in a private temple open only to “spiritual seekers.” The rest of the foundation’s trustees are very much opposed. - Artnet
“Police detained Nikolaos Papadopoulos — of the small right-wing, ultra-religious Niki party — for several hours before releasing him. … Papadopoulos and one other person attacked (four) paintings …, throwing them to the floor and shattering glass in the frames.” - AP
Some of the nation’s art heroes have been moving pieces from the embattled east of Ukraine to the western half or even abroad; others have been attempting to salvage what’s been damaged or destroyed; still others work on locating and perhaps recovering the art that’s been looted and taken to Russia. - CNN
“Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled to open in April next year. The expansive site-specific works will help to define the look and feel of the Peter Zumthor-designed building.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
The justices ordered a Federal appeals court to reexamine its ruling in favor of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, currently in possession of Camille Pissarro’s “Rue St. Honoré, dans l’après-midi. Effet de pluie.” The family of Holocaust survivor Lilly Cassirer has fought to recover the painting for 20 years. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Once a key collecting category, with robust auction departments, hungry collectors, and record sales, historical American art was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis. I’ve long wondered if the field will ever recover. - Artnet
The artists “illuminated Olmsted and Vaux’s paths in municipal orange, rendering the park’s plan visible to a visitor, thus reinscribing it as a public artwork.” - Hyperallergic
France does not do museum renovations by halves. “The building, famous for its facade adorned with colourful pipes and ventilation shafts, will be given a top-to-toe renovation” - partly because of a massive quantity of asbestos. - The Guardian (UK)
Janiva Ellis says, “Some of them are done,” she said. “Some of them are actually not done. Some of them are not done, but I’ll never work on them again.”- The New York Times
Manuel Sandoval “had been part of the 1932 founding class at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship in Wisconsin. … The young man had been interested in studying architecture, but Wright — renowned for exploiting the labor of his apprentices — preferred to keep him in the woodshop.” - Hyperallergic
The German artist said “stays abreast of current events, and said that recently he has felt a physical sense of threat by the rise of right-wing authoritarian leadership, both in Germany and in the United States.” - The New York Times
The sudden “reorganization” happens (coincidentally!) to result in openings for non-union security guards. A union organizer said, “It is appalling to see AKG take a page from Elon Musk’s playbook — undermining its own employees and our hard-won rights.” - Hyperallergic
“If it's unusual for a poem to escape the world of literature, it's virtually unheard of for one to provoke angry newspaper headlines, prompt politicians to demand action and members of the public to furiously call TV channels.” That’s what happened with the 1987 TV broadcast of Tony Harrison’s poem “V.” - BBC
Brick, stone, and terra-cotta, products that have the solidity and hue of earth, have timidly but perceptibly snuck back into New York’s repertoire of architectural ambitions. - New York Magazine
