Category: visual

The world’s largest statue of Jesus was hit by lightning. The bolt parted the thunderclouds over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to strike Christ the Redeemer.

There’s virtually no way to sell it. “No one is going to be able to sell these works through the legitimate art market. The Cézanne is one of the most famous images in the world.”

Dorothy Kosinski is “charged with reengaging the Phillips with work by living artists — much of which, today, is geared toward countering precisely the sleek, modernist aesthetic the museum’s founded on. There’ll be some juggling to do.”

The financial markets ae in turmoil. But “most areas of the market seem to be immune from the anxieties that have been taking hold of the outside world.”

“Scientists from the University of Michigan are using T-rays, a benign form of electromagnetic radiation, to see artwork hidden for centuries by paint or plaster.”

The Russian government has set up a website detailing some 46,000 of the country’s artworks missing due to looting by the Nazis during the Second World War.

“China is the third most important art market by value, replacing France, which has long held the coveted spot, after New York and London, a leading economist says”

“As one museum after another negotiates deals, and prosecutors all over the world target the commercial trade in ancient objects, some prominent scholars are drawing a line in the sand, saying that objects belong where they are – that the movement is based on a false reading of history, and, if allowed to progress, could do serious damage to the world’s cultural inheritance.”

” The cleverest artist of the 20th century played a great joke on history, for Duchamp, who sanctioned and signed replicas of his works and is the prophet of the simulacrum, is in truth inimitable.”

“Essentially a city unto itself, Crystal Island would rank, if completed, as the biggest building in the world, with a total floor area of 27 million square feet, or about four times the size of the Pentagon. Its sharply peaked, tent-like form is designed to hold 900 apartments, 3,000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500 students, a shopping center, offices, a museum and a large sports complex.”