Category: visual

“Starting in 2004, 25 researchers visited 200 museums and art galleries across Britain recording the history and existence – in some cases for the first time – of some 8,000 European works of art from before 1900.”

“Italian archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the underground grotto believed to have been worshipped by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city’s legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.”

The former CFO of Washington state’s Bellevue Art Museum was charged this week with embezzling more than $300,000 from her employer. “Prosecutors say Ellinger stole most of the money by writing checks to herself and then covering them up with fake entries in the museum’s financial ledger.”

“The Vancouver Art Gallery is preparing to pursue a move from its current building to a former bus-depot site a few blocks away… The VAG has long outgrown its current home on Robson Street, a former provincial courthouse that was built in 1906 and reconfigured in the early 1980s.”

A new book traces the artistic and intellectual history of modernism, and concludes that the movement “was propelled by two main impulses: the urge to overturn established hierarchies and break rules… and a compulsion to explore the artist’s interior world.”

“The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission decided yesterday that the Guggenheim should maintain the same light-gray paint shade it has had since 1992, when a major expansion of the museum by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects was completed, rather than the original light yellow.”

“An oil painting by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo that was plucked from a sidewalk trash heap several years ago sold for more than $1 million on Tuesday at Sotheby’s auction of Latin American art.”

“Technology always promises great leaps forward, but the seductive use of technology in visual art just as often can lead to giant steps back.”

The “former antiquities curator for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles went on trial yesterday in Athens on charges of conspiring to acquire an ancient gold funerary wreath that Greek officials say was illegally removed from Greek soil about 15 years ago.”

“Yesterday’s four-hour auction [of Canadian art in Toronto] set at least 18 records, according to Sotheby’s/Ritchies, and the total value of the sale easily topped the CAN$6.1-million to CAN$8.5-million presale valuation of the consignments.”