Category: visual

New leadership at the Harlem Studio Museum to forge new directions/definitions. – New York Times

A statue stolen 11 years ago from the Montreal Children’s Hospital, supposedly turned up last week as a prop on the television series “Due South.” Now the hospital is taking its search to the internet to track it down. – Ottawa Citizen

Portrait artists are seeing an increase in business. “I think the baby boomers have realized there’s more and more that needs to be maintained, that a portrait is a gift you leave for future generations,” says Toronto artist Gail Hill. Indeed, many of Hill’s clients are women in their mid-40s to mid-50s: “We are the most beautiful we’ve ever been, the most powerful, the most confident and competent,” she says. “And we’re also able to buy art.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)

Rodin’s “The Thinker” is being recast for the first time since the artist’s death in 1917. – The Art Newspaper

On the eve of announcement of a British government plan for compensation to Holocaust survivors and their families for artwork looted by the Nazis now residing in British museums, a controversy erupts. Jewish community leaders and art experts are protesting that the plan is inadequate.- London Evening Standard

• Previously: LOOTED ART: Several prominent British art museums are expected to announce this week that they are in possession of artworks stolen by the Nazis in the World War II. The Tate alone is said to have 100 such works. – Jerusalem Post

Chicago’s latest piece of public art is a $3 million sculpture, designed by London-based artist Anish Kapoor. It will look like a highly finished piece of seamless modern art that some have compared to a jelly or kidney bean. When built, it will be 30 feet tall, 60 feet long, and weigh 100-plus tons. City officials hope it will be a civic signature piece. Just one problem: how to get it from where it’s built, across oceans, through canals and finally across town without crushing the pavement, bridges and other obstacles in its path? – Chicago Tribune

Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center gets a $5 million gift of 20th-century paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings from the collection of Judy and Kenneth Dayton. The Daytons have been among the Walker’s guiding lights. – The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

A painting, found hanging on the wall in an old English country home turns out to be unrecognized Cimabue worth $3 million. Believed to be first Cimabue ever to be offered at auction. – Times of India

Showcasing your art on the web is getting easier and easier, with new websites dedicated to the promotion of creativity. – Wired

At the Philip Glass Inc. studio, the background noise  “sounds more like a stock exchange than a creative haven. Assistants, collaborators, friends and journalists are yelling for the master’s attention. ‘The phone is always ringing off the hook,’ he admits cheerfully. ‘I always have more work than I can handle.’ ” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)