Category: visual

Pretty OK, it seems. “Some regulars love the Met so much that they don’t need new enticements. Melinda Fuller, an art teacher from Connecticut who has visited the Met more than 50 times, excitedly said on her way out of the museum that she had just signed up become a member. She volunteered that she’d be willing to pay $30 for admission.”

How were the 1500-year-old mummies discovered? The site “was found last year by some Cairo University students using radar.”

Yes, you need Leonora Carrington and all the rest of them: “The history of Surrealism and political activism is a bit messy, but for the most part they were an anti-Fascist movement whose cry for demanding freedom inspired responses from under represented voices. Among them were numerous female members who created a feminine space filled with reclaimed symbology and deconstructed mythology.”

The Allies returned about 9,000 works – less than half of those looted by the Nazis – to the Netherlands, but the Netherlands didn’t make much progress in getting them back to the original owners – and now the panel that makes decisions is supposed to consider “‘the significance of the work to public art collections’ against the emotional attachment of the claimant.” That’s not going particularly well for the claimants.

Anne Imhof’s work “disturbingly mixes totalitarian imagery with the slouchy looks made famous by fashion designers such as Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia,” and it “divided spectators at the biennial’s preview this week.”

Caravaggio? The hot-tempered, violent Caravaggio?? Yes, writes, Ingrid D. Rowland. Comparing his work with that of several of his disciples and contemporaries, she finds that what really sets Caravaggio apart is the compassion he shows in the way he depicts the characters in his paintings.

Ever since Random International’s wildly popular Rain Room was shown at a Shanghai museum in 2015, unauthorized copies have been spreading across China (there were two of them in the city before the museum show even closed), and now there are agencies where you can rent a one. Shanghai now has a permanent one at what seems to be an art-installation theme park – it also has knock-offs of Yayoi Kusama’s Dot Obsession and Infinity Rooms and a Van Gogh Starry Night hall of mirrors.

Archaeologists found the burial chamber in the necropolis at Dahshur, about 20 miles south of the capital. The tomb evidently holds a daughter of the 13th Dynasty pharaoh Ameny Qemau, who rules roughly 3,800 years ago.

Tax law, public art commissions, guns and people shooting them, and so on. Martha Lufkin gives an overview of the half-dozen biggest issues covered at a convention in Dallas for museum professionals sponsored by the American Law Institute and the Smithsonian Institution.

Yes, we’re afraid so: Dogumenta. The idea comes from former Washington Post art critic Jessica Dawson, whose Yorkie/Maltese mix Rocky (pictured) accompanies her on all her gallery visits in Chelsea.