“It serves as a fun way to engage our visitors. … Visitors are always excited when they uncover these humorous and unexpected objects.”
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Upending The History Of Art In Los Angeles
“The museum’s chief curator, Helen Molesworth, who joined MOCA in 2014, has gotten hold of the museum’s permanent collection and rearranged it in a way that not only makes the story of 20th century art seem fresh, it positively crackles.”
Remix: NY Public Library Releases 180,000 Images For Public To Remix
“I think of libraries as being full of many pieces of culture that are reassembled to create new forms of culture. I think that’s absolutely a trajectory of the library, we should be a set of resources that people can use for new forms of creation that are contemporary, and ones we haven’t even thought about yet.”
Venice, Broke And Crumbling, Considers Selling Off Some Art
“By any measure, this aquatic city is uniquely expensive to run. And that has pushed [the mayor] to launch controversial proposals – including the sale of some of the masterpieces in Venice’s public museums, such as works by Gustav Klimt and Marc Chagall – to help plug a €60 million ($65 million) hole.”
Paris Museums See Attendance Drop Linked To Terror Attacks
Attendance at the Musée d’Orsay was down 1% in 2015; at the Louvre, down 7%; at the Musée de l’Orangerie, 4%. “A major factor was the cancellation – both after the attacks of Nov. 13 and those of last January – of thousands of class trips from schools in the city and suburbs.”
What All Great Art Forgeries Have In Common
“At the center of every major forgery scandal of the last century stands someone like Greenhalgh who not only could produce a very convincing fake, but who also understood how to corrupt the very systems of knowledge the art world uses to determine attributions and authenticity.”
Ancient Egyptian Shrines, Once Thought Destroyed, Reveal Six New Statues
“A team of archaeologists in Egypt has discovered six rock cut statues inside two adjoining shrines, previously believed to be completely destroyed by an earthquake that shook the region centuries ago.”
Frank Lloyd Wright School Of Architecture Raises The $2 Million It Needs To Remain Accredited
“The school, which consists of Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis., is seeking to become an independent subsidiary of the [Frank Lloyd Wright] Foundation, which currently runs it. Bylaw changes established by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in 2012 required the school to file for independent incorporation as an institution with the primary purpose of offering higher education.”
Is An Artwork Still The Artwork When Its Pieces Have Been Replaced?
“If it isn’t the same ship—if restoration has crossed into replication—which piece of timber was decisive? And where does the identity of an art work reside if it will be fully realized only in the future, plank by printed plank?”
The 20 Most Powerless People In The Art World In 2015
The list ranges from perpetually oppressed art handlers and fact-checkers to poor, dissed Renoir and King Tut to, at the head of the list, the brave and beleaguered archaeologists caught in ISIS’s crossfire.