Category: visual

“For the past 17 months, the centuries-old fountain has been partly covered by scaffolding while it was undergoing badly-needed repairs. Today, the waters started flowing again.”

It does not say museums should avoid any specific types of company, but does say museums must find sponsors who share their “ethical values”.

“[Given] what pops up on Google as you look for places, the fact we did not have ‘museum’ in the name was not helpful to us,” said W. Richard West Jr.

“Experts at the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP) have confirmed that a drawing previously attributed to one of Hieronymus Bosch’s workshop assistants was actually rendered by the Flemish master himself. … The news closely follows a similar but less celebratory announcement that two other paintings, long believed to be authentic Bosches, were actually imitations.”

It’s about more than just the new chief curator. Now settled in its new home in Center City Philadelphia, the foundation “is poised to roll out an expansive plan embracing multiple ways of thinking about art, teaching art, and bringing art to the broader community … At the same time, the foundation will be seeking to raise an additional $100 million in endowment funds to help bankroll the new initiatives.”

In his lifetime, Rodin struggled to maintain his palatial workplace, and the three-year renovation, which has cost 16m euros, is the most comprehensive since it was converted into a public museum in 1919.

Sylvie Patry, in a telephone interview from Paris, said she sought the job because she felt the Barnes was “a collection that is known but not so well known, which makes it a very interesting job for a curator.

“The plan calls for a new statue that’s way taller than the ancient one. At 400 feet tall, the new Helios would be nearly four times the height of the original. The proposal also includes an interior library, museum, cultural center, exhibition hall, and, of course, a crowning lighthouse that’s visible for 35 miles.”

“At first you think it’s the holiday spirit and wonderful. Then you realise it’s the end of the year and people are looking for charitable contributions.”

“The EU considered” – and has now rejected – “a restriction on cadmium [paints] following pressure from Sweden, which argued that artists pollute the food chain when they rinse their brushes in the sink. Cadmium ends up in sewage sludge and is then spread on agricultural land … Cadmium in its pure form is highly toxic, but the cadmium compounds used by artists are not classified as hazardous.”