Category: visual

Using their expert knowledge of archaeology, a sophisticated new database, and plenty of detective work, the dedicated team at the British Museum is working closely with colleagues in Cairo and Khartoum to identify problematic objects and expose fictitious provenances. – Artnet

Scaffolding for the 5Pointz luxury apartment tower (built on the site of the now-destroyed street-art mecca) has moved into what Turrell intended as an unobstructed view of the sky in his Skyspace installation, titled Meeting, at the MoMA outpost in Queens. So the museum has agreed to his request to close the installation until the scaffolding is no longer visible. — Hyperallergic

“The renovation project, entitled Transforming the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, … focus[es] on areas such as collection management, communications and audience engagement.” The Louvre and the British Museum will participate, along with institutions in Turin, Berlin and the Dutch city of Leiden. (But they won’t be sending the Rosetta Stone back to Cairo.) — The Art Newspaper

Denis Chuprikov, 32, was arrested and confessed to the theft of the painting — Ai Petri, Crimea (1908) by Arkhip Kuindzhi — just a day after he was caught on security cameras rolling the canvas up and walking out of the Tretyakov Gallery with it. — The Moscow Times

When Charles III commissioned the building in the 1780s, he intended it to become a natural science museum; by the time it was ready to open in 1819, his grandson Ferdinand VII decided it was to be a showplace for the royal art collection. Since then, it’s been involved in everything from art education programs for peasants to the country’s civil wars (the Prado’s importance was the one thing every side agreed on). — The New York Times

After 18 years as the paper’s art and architecture critic, Schumacher has taken a buyout; her position is being eliminated. The Journal Sentinel is a Gannett newspaper, and Schumacher is presumably one of the roughly 400 staffers whose layoffs by the chain were revealed earlier this month. — ARTnews

“After a week spent in Taipei for the art fair and its orbiting constellation of events, one thing is clear: how these two forces—the dynamism of the regional scene and the growing number of Western galleries prospecting for business—intersect over the coming years will do much to shape the future of art in this century.” – Artnet

The work, titled “Ai Petri, Crimea” and painted by Arkhip Kuindzhi in 1908, had been insured for $182,000, according to a spokeswoman for the museum. – The New York Times

The tribute to victims of the 2015 Bataclan massacre, painted on an emergency door in the concert hall, was cut out and removed. “The theft, which occurred overnight on Friday, involved ‘a group of hooded individuals armed with angle grinders,’ AFP news agency reports, citing a source close to the investigation, said.” – BBC