Category: visual

“The site, a former training camp of Osama bin Laden, has been leased to a Chinese mining company for copper production. Only what can be excavated and removed to safety will be saved.”

“Leigh Morse, the former director of Salander-O’Reilly Galleries and once an art dealer for actor Robert De Niro, was convicted in a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the estates of artists including painter Stuart Davis.”

“Iran has cut ties with The Louvre, a top official said on Monday, accusing the renowned Paris museum of violating a commitment … to set up an exhibition of Persian artefacts in Iran.”

“If Maine Gov. Paul LePage doesn’t wish to display a mural depicting the state’s labor history, then the U.S. Department of Labor wants back the federal money used to create it. The department said Monday that LePage violated the terms of a federal grant that paid for most of the mural’s $60,000 cost when he removed the art work from state offices last month.”

The city’s “twin art galleries the Gallery of Modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery have for the first time stolen the crown as the nation’s most visited museums, after they attracted 1.8 million people last year.”

“Despite the attendance decline, however, the AGO, one of North America’s larger art institutions, expects a balanced budget, thanks to savings in programming, and not the $3-million revenue shortfall some had predicted.”

Anne Baldassari revealed the museum raised between €1m and €3.5m a year since 2008 from the touring exhibition “Masterpieces from the Picasso Museum”. It has visited eight cities so far, including Madrid, Helsinki and Tokyo. “We have made [in total] €16m,” she said, adding that the museum levied different charges for loans.

“Thieves stole around 1,000 relics from museums and archeological sites across Egypt since protests against the government broke out in January, Egypt’s minister for antiquities Zahi Hawass said Sunday in a newspaper interview.”

In his nearly 14-year tenure, he has endured repeated criticism for his initiatives–mostly for staging “populist” exhibitions focusing on “Star Wars,” hip-hop, graffiti and similar topics. His response: “We have a very diverse audience and we do exhibitions that engage that diversity, not all the time, but as often as we can.”