“A curator who accused MoMA PS 1 of gender, pregnancy and caregiver discrimination has settled the claim she brought against the museum saying it had rescinded a job offer upon learning she had recently given birth. Nikki Columbus, who is also an art editor, filed the claim in July 2018 with the New York City Commission on Human Rights.” – The New York Times
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British Museum Loses Top Ranking Among UK’s Most Popular Tourist Attractions
“The British Museum has lost its crown as the UK’s most popular visitor attraction for the first time in a decade, overtaken by Tate Modern. Almost 5.9 million people visited the Tate Modern art gallery last year, new figures show — just above the 5.8 million who went to the British Museum.” – BBC
Don’t Run The Forklift Through The Picasso: The Insane Logistics Of Moving Priceless Art From Museum To Museum
“Yet the mechanisms required … – loan agreements, insurance, packing, couriering, shipping, handling, installation – are delicate, expensive and complex. Behind every exhibition is an intricate logistical web that reaches across the globe.” – The Guardian
Why Everyone Is Hating On Hudson Yards’ “Vessel” (Or Whatever We’re Calling It)
The Vessel has invited nearly universal vitriol, even amongst the politest architecture critics. It is an object lesson teaching us that, in our neoliberal age of surveillance capitalism—an era where the human spirit is subjected to a regime of means testing and digital disruption, and a cynical view of the city as an engine of real estate prevails—architecture, quite frankly, sucks. – The Baffler
How A Medieval Costume Show Became 2018’s Most-Attended Exhibition Worldwide
The show appealed to such a wide audience “because it put fashion in the context of the Medieval sculpture hall, and juxtaposed art with architecture to create an experience that was like a pilgrimage”, says Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, who organised the show. “It was very much an experiential moment for people, with the fashion and art mixing together in a procession-like way.” – The Art Newspaper
Stolen Picasso, Missing For 20 Years, Literally Brought To Art Detective’s Doorstep
Arthur Brand, a/k/a “the Indiana Jones of the art world,” has recovered Buste de femme (Dora Maar), a 1938 painting which was stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999. After Brand had spent four years following leads on the painting’s whereabouts through the Dutch criminal underworld, a pair of intermediaries brought the canvas to his Amsterdam home. – Yahoo! (AFP)
The Country That Practices Extreme Modernist Architecture On Vacation Houses
“Rather than fading deferentially into the terrain that surrounds them, the houses that best exemplify the new Chilean architecture are, like Neruda’s impure poetry, emphatically man-made — rough-hewn and, at times, surreal.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
The SWAT Team That Hunts Out Fakes At Europe’s Elite Old Masters Art Fair
Vetting, as the process is known, is expensive, invisible, and has recently undergone some major changes at TEFAF. But it remains key to ensuring that collectors can trust in the fair’s offerings and know that they are getting exactly what they are paying for. – Artnet
Categorization: Do We Really Need “Ultra” Contemporary??
On the other hand: What important trends are we obscuring if we lump the likes of Andy Warhol, who died in 1987, and Avery Singer, who was born in 1987, into the same category? – Artnet
UK’s Sackler Trust Suspends Further Giving
The growing unease amongst British museums to accept money from Sackler family members implicated in the sale of the opioid painkiller OxyContin comes in the wake of several US lawsuits filed in recent months against Purdue Pharma, the family’s US drugs company. – The Art Newspaper