What the … “On Wednesday, August 1, the Liverpool Biennial announced that their installation of The List was anonymously removed by unauthorized persons unaffiliated with the arts festival. The city council also affirmed that nobody employed by the municipality was thought to have pilfered the long list of the dead. On Twitter, the biennial is asking for anyone with knowledge related to the work’s disappearance to come forward.”
Category: visual
Who Really Owns, And Who Really Should Own, The Elgin Marbles?
A new book addresses the issue in a variety of ways that should make us reconsider what ancient art actually means to us. “I doubt that anyone is willing to add color to these sculptures, although that would make them look more authentic. The critical question, then, is what these dilemmas says about legitimate ownership of the marbles. Once we turn sacred works into art, and remove the original coloring, why cannot we also move them?”
Authorities Bulldoze Ai Weiwei’s Studio In Beijing With No Warning
His team raced today to save as many sculptures and other artworks as possible as excavators clawed holes in the walls. “They came and started knocking down the windows today without telling us beforehand. There’s still so much stuff inside.”
Nicole Eisenman Wins $200K (Or Is It $800K?) Booth/FLAG Art Prize
“The Contemporary Austin has named artist [and MacArthur fellow] Nicole Eisenman as winner of the 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize. … [The award] is now valued at $800,000, including $200,000 in cash, plus twinned exhibitions here and in New York, as well as publications and travel.”
No More Free Sundays At Colosseum, Uffizi, Etc., Says Italy’s New Government
“The new culture minister of Italy’s populist coalition government, Alberto Bonisoli, has [announced] that a monthly free-entry initiative at the country’s museums and monuments is coming to an end. Since July 2014, more than 480 state-run cultural sites, including Pompeii, the Uffizi and the Colosseum, have been free to visit on the first Sunday of every month. Known as Domenica al museo (Sunday at the museum), the policy was one of many culture reforms introduced by Bonisoli’s centre-left predecessor, Dario Franceschini.”
Should Museums Be Trying To Get Visitors To Slow Down?
That a lot of visitors make a beeline through art museum galleries has long been a bugaboo for curators and directors—“studies of museum visitors have shown that people look at artworks very quickly, spending maybe five seconds or less per painting,” Brent Benjamin, director of the Saint Louis Art Museum told Observer. But despite this desire on the part of arts professionals, slowing visitors down in front of individual objects has not been the primary goal at most institutions of late—though they certainly want to get people in, and get them to stay.
Brazen Thieves Steal Royal Swedish Jewels And Escape By Speedboat
“This happened during the middle of the day in an open cathedral where there were people in the cathedral at the point of the theft. They were kept in locked showcases with an alarm and they still managed to get away. Of course, it’s absolutely devastating. These are our national heritage items of great significance.
The Reasoning Behind The Cranach-Norton Simon Court Decision? Respecting National Sovereignty
The crux of the case, brought by the heir of the art dealer who owned the Adam and Eve paintings before World War II, was whether the Dutch government had the right to sell the works on when it recovered them post-1945. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided, basically, that it would not second-guess the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Munich Cancels Major Joan Jonas Show Because There’s No Money To Mount It
“Munich’s Haus der Kunst has cancelled an exhibition of the experimental video and performance artist Joan Jonas” – currently running at the Tate Modern in London – “that was to open in November, citing ‘a difficult financial situation stemming from management errors of the past.'”
Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery Tries To Ban Visitors From Discussing The Art
“[The] State Tretyakov Gallery has aimed its crosshairs at ‘illegal’ tours and said only certified guides with special badges are allowed to talk about the exhibits. As a result, security guards have been reprimanding ordinary groups of people discussing the art amongst themselves.”