These objects, taken from a dealer and held by the London police for more than a decade, were returned, but there’s quite a lot more looted art out there in the world: “The objects were not stolen in the notorious free-for-all at the National Museum in 2003, an event that Donald H. Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time, once brushed off with the words ‘stuff happens.'”
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Why Artist Resale Royalties Are A Bad Idea?
There are a lot of problems with resale royalties schemes, and we have addressed some of them at length elsewhere. Here, we focus on one overriding difficulty: Resale royalties take real money from the entire art world, including young and struggling artists, and transfer most of it to a tiny group of famous and rich super-artists—the artistic one-percenters. New data we have collected shows this clearly.
Archaeologists Turn Detectives And Trace Looted Artifacts To Iraq
The eight small pieces had no documentation of any kind to help the police, but the museum experts could literally read their origin. They included cone-shaped ceramics with cuneiform inscriptions identifying the site as Tello, ancient Girsu in southern Iraq, one of the oldest cities on earth recorded in the earliest form of true written language.
Still Sorting Out The Relationships Between Art And Money
The role of money is more obvious now. People can look at works in an auction preview or catalogue and see the price— and price dictates how we view the artwork. But art dealers as we know them had their advent in the 19th century. Prior to that, art was about commissions from the wealthy. Again: rich merchants, royalty and the church. They were the gatekeepers. They determined which artists got commissions and which artists did not.
Facebook Removes Icelandic Artist’s Work Because… Naked Breasts
As part of the Reykjavik arts festival in June, Indridadóttir showed photographs of topless young women standing in front of painted portraits of older men. The photographs were taken in locations such as the Icelandic parliament, a sports club and a school, where rooms are decorated with portraits of men that had been playing an important part in the history of those institutions
Does Art Need Terrorism Insurance?
As opposed to residential fine art policies, terrorism coverage is not automatically part of commercial property insurance. That means museums and commercial art galleries need to purchase protection for this potentiality separately.
Albright-Knox Builds A Public Art Boom In Buffalo
“The 156-year-old museum is now five years into an ambitious program that’s been injecting life into the Western New York region’s parks, neighborhoods, buildings, and other infrastructure through paint, plastic, steel, cloth, and whatever else their international cast of commissioned artists want to work with.” In a Q&A, Albright-Knox public art curator Aaron Ott talks about the works that have gone up, their reception by the public, and the lessons he’s learned.
Destroyed Artwork Listing Refugee Deaths Is Back On View
The project, titled The List and produced by artist Banu Cennetoğlu, displays the names of 34,361 migrants attempting to reach Europe who have died en route since 1993. The work was torn down by vandals late last month from its outdoor display at the Liverpool Biennial; it was reinstalled this past Monday (August 5), though Biennial organizers say it may be targeted again.
Is This The World’s Oldest Architecture?
It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypt’s great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or the wheel. But should Göbekli Tepe, which became a Unesco World Heritage Site in July, also be regarded as the world’s oldest piece of architecture?
Art Galleries Are Leaving LA’s Boyle Heights, Scene Of Anti-Gentrification Protests
In recent months, several art spaces have abandoned the informal gallery zone that had materialized over the last five years in the area known as the Flats, the low-lying, largely industrial sliver of Boyle Heights that borders the Los Angeles River.