“Bruegel House, a dedicated museum to his life and work, was due to have opened in October 2019, the centrepiece of the 450th anniversary of his death. But a strict financial rule to guard against over-spending has led to the project being put on hold, despite no money being required from Belgium’s federal government.”
Category: visual
Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ Exhibition Passes Million-Visitor Mark
On Thursday, August 23, after just 3½ months, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” received its one millionth visitor. The show is now the most popular in the history of the Met’s Costume Institute and the third most-visited the entire museum has ever presented. (And it still has six weeks left to run.)
Here’s A Canvas Artists Should Use More Often: Tennis Courts
As part of a US Open-50th-anniversary celebration, the USTA commissioned artists to paint courts in Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Miami. It was a challenge for the artists to get used to the medium, but the results are impressive. (They should probably have avoided white, though.)
This Is A Critical Time For LA’s Museum Of Contemporary Art As New Director Steps In
There’s been a lack of clarity in terms of the museum’s vision for 20 years now—it’s time for a plan that moves the institution forward. There’s also a critical mass of institutions of high ambitions now that makes for a very challenging and competitive landscape—Lacma is more engaged with contemporary art than ever before, and the Hammer [Museum] is at its most energetic and creative.
Glassblowers Stuck By A Severe Shortage Of Glass
The shortage seems to be the culmination of stricter environmental laws, which led to a cutback in suppliers, compounded most recently by heavy demands on an overseas supplier.
Christie’s To Auction First Art By Artificial Intelligence
A canvas print of art collective Obvious’ (and GAN’s) creation will be included in Christie’s late October auction of Prints and Multiples, the New York-based auction house reports. It remains to be seen how bidders will react to the AI work, but Obvious remains optimistic, citing an estimated sale price of €7,000 to €10,000, or roughly $8,000 to $11,500.
Wanna A Piece Of A Warhol?
The art fund that will allow people—you, me, most everyone we know—to invest as little as $20 to purchase a share of an artwork. Masterworks acquires artworks that its leadership team believes to be undervalued—its first two offerings are an oil and silkscreen Colored Marilyn by Andy Warhol (bought for $1.8 million) and an oil Coup de Vent by Claude Monet (bought for $6.3 million)—for which investors may purchase a fraction.
Palmyra Will Be Ready For Tourists By Next Summer, Say Syrian Officials
Governor Talal Barazi of Homs province: “The authorities now have a project to repair all the damage caused to Palmyra’s Old City. There are also good offers from the world powers to restore the artefacts and historical value of Palmyra. I suppose that Palmyra will be completely ready for receiving tourists by summer 2019.”
Museum Visitor Falls Into An Art Work That Is A Hole (Even With Signs Warning It’s A Hole)
A spokesman for the museum says that the “visitor is OK [and] almost ready to return home”. He added that “security protocol was followed” and there are warning signs as well as a member of gallery staff inside the installation. It has been temporarily closed while the institution assesses what happened but it hopes to reopen it “in a few days”.
The Most Stolen Painting In The World
It is also “arguably the single most influential painting ever made. But while eleven-twelfths of it is intact, miraculously after so many centuries of adventures, one-half of one key panel remains missing.” Noah Charney retells the story of the “Ghent Altarpiece,” Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb.