Category: visual

“We think it left Egypt after 1970 because in that time other artifacts were stolen from Karnak Temple,” former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass told AFP. – The Daily Beast

The answer has very little to do with game days and much more to do with wringing money out of the spaces in the off season. Art suggests high-end. And a high-end vibe, these stadiums hope, will help them lure clients to rent out the venues for birthday parties, graduations, weddings, concerts, and corporate events. – Artnet

As one gallerist put it, “With this extradition law, however, the firewall protecting our freedom of expression is effectively removed and everybody falls into self-censorship. One would worry if their art will be deemed politically charged or in violation of mainland laws.” And an artist marching in the protests said simply, “If this law is approved, then Hong Kong and China will be just the same.” – Artsy

Late in the evening of July 1, say Chicago police, seven people tagged with white spray paint the Anish Kapoor sculpture Cloud Gate in Millennium Park. The tags were cleaned off by 10:30 the following morning, and suspects were captured and charged. – Chicago Tribune

The late architect Robert Venturi praised the designers Charles and Ray Eames for bringing back “good old Victorian clutter” into modern design. Nothing similar could be said of Apple, whose designs are intended to absorb and centralize—and, in some cases, to wish the physical world out of existence. – The New Yorker

The 200 Van Gogh paintings which Jan Cornelis Traas restored for the family between 1926 and 1933 represent nearly a quarter of the artist’s works. It remains highly disturbing that a restorer with virtually no formal training and with little experience should have been given the task of restoring so many of Van Gogh’s paintings. – The Art Newspaper

“The Italian culture minister, Alberto Bonisoli, is planning to merge the Gallerie degli Uffizi with the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence under a single administration” as part of a new set of reforms rolling back the previous government’s reforms of Italian museums. “The Accademia — best known as the home of Michelangelo’s David — will maintain curatorial independence, he added, through its own scientific committee.” – The Art Newspaper

“A 2017 lawsuit by photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation has come to a close, as a federal judge in New York ruled yesterday that Warhol’s 1984 Prince Series works, which are based on a portrait of Prince shot by Goldsmith, do not infringe the copyright of the original portrait she shot for Newsweek in 1981.” – ARTnews

Women comprise the majority of museum employees, but in most cases they earn less than their male colleagues. – Washington Post

“Not many details have been released about the shipwreck, but the Department of Antiquities notes that it ‘is the first undisturbed Roman shipwreck ever found in Cyprus.’ The vessel is still packed with amphorae — jugs that the ancients used to hold foodstuffs like oil and wine — that likely came from Syria and Cilicia, a region that is now southern Turkey.” – Smithsonian Magazine