“It took years of often tense negotiations, but on Tuesday the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen signed an agreement that includes the return of archaeological artifacts that Italy said had been looted from Italian soil.”
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Some Aesthetic Misgivings About Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Floating Saffron Piers
“It is undeniable that “Floating Piers” has tapped into the public imagination, drawing 270,000 visitors within the first three days of opening and over 500,000 to date. But if we are to take the work as a purely artistic statement (and a very popular one), it is nonetheless one that connects the private villa of an arms manufacturer to the mainland, drawing the parched masses to the Beretta family’s closed doors. I came, I saw, and I left feeling that a beautiful lake had been mired by a large-scale reinforcement of the social fabric: a paean to neo-feudalism, no less.”
What’s Behind The Disaster At USC’s Art School?
The departure of HaeAhn Kwon, this year’s only enrolled MFA student, “a year after an entire class of seven studio art MFA students withdrew from Roski to protest curriculum changes and staff defections, is prompting new questions about USC’s commitment to the fine arts and renewed accusations that the university cares more about buzzy programs.” Carolina Miranda reports.
Norton Museum Of Art In Palm Beach Drops Admission Charges For Next Two-And-A-Half Years
“The museum was closed [for one month] while staff prepares for a $100 million renovation which will enlarge the building and transform its facade along South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach. Admission will continue to be free until what’s being called The New Norton is completed in late 2018.”
Art Galleries Pop Up In Living Rooms (And Vice Versa) As Rents Soar
“Call it a response to an art world in which dealer representation is increasingly hard to come by; exhibitions are costly; and formerly affordable areas like Bushwick have priced out artists, forcing them to seek out scrappier locations in which to show their work.”
The Fine Artist Whose Work (Surprise!) Inspired Kanye’s New Video
“It was very cryptic, and quite mysterious. I received a phone call and I was told that Kanye was an enormous fan of my work, and he would like to meet me.”
The U.S. Painters With Secret (More Like Ignored) Lives
“When women did well in contests, they went to pick up their medals and were told they must be mistaken – the winner couldn’t possibly be female. On the rare occasion that women artists were exhibited alongside their male counterparts, critics tended to concede that they were shocked by the quality.”
Downtown Los Angeles To Get Yet Another Large Art Space
“The museum … will have 40,000 square feet of exhibition space on the ground floors of the 1903 Hellman Building and the 1905 Farmers and Merchants Building. It will also have a rooftop sculpture garden and amphitheater.”
A Family (Art) Feud Worth $3 Billion
“The saga involves a collection of treasures that have largely been hidden for the past two decades, a secret seller using an offshore company to put up paintings for auction and a fight that boils down to one nonexistent will and one cryptic one.”
Richard Avedon Paid His Printer With Prints… And That Is A Problem
The prints were Mr. Hofmann’s reward for his labor, he said, explaining that he struck a deal with Avedon in the fall of 1984: instead of money, he would be paid with a signed print of everything he produced for the project. “Dick had no conception of what people lived on, and asking him for money was difficult,” he explained. “Being paid in prints seemed the path of least resistance.” But there is a snag. None of Mr. Hofmann’s prints from the series is signed.