Author: Douglas McLennan

A proposed $3.6 billion mega-project in downtown LA seeks to give the city a statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Disney Land all in one. What an ill-conceived project, cry the critics.  Los Angeles Times

– in L.A. will be topped with statue of a female angel twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Planned as the centerpiece to an 88-acre theme park, the privately funded City of Angels Monument is being billed as a memorial honoring the arts and entertainment. What it really is, writes critic Christopher Knight, is junk. Los Angeles Times

Fort Worth’s Kimbell Museum has an agreement to buy a Boticelli for $24 million. Now the problem is getting an export license to get it out of England.  New York Times

The painting fetched a record price at Sotheby’s last spring. When it quietly went up at Steve Wynn’s Los Vegas hotel months later, it was a sign of a high-priced sale gone wrong. New York Observer

– will appoint committee to investigate whether British Museum should return the Elgin Marbles to Greece.  BBC 

AND: CBC report

Winner to be announced November 30. – The Art Newspaper