Category: visual

“The recent photographs of the stalwart carabinieri in front of the 5,000 stolen antiquities do, however, invite a fundamental question. Where should they go now?”

The court in a Côte d’Azur town gave Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec “a two-year suspended sentence, ending years of intrigue surrounding a mysterious suitcase full of drawings that the couple took to Paris in 2010 to show Claude Picasso, the late painter’s son who represents the artist’s heirs and estate.”

“The director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (Macba), Bartomeu Marí, has resigned in light of a censorship row over a controversial installation on display at the museum, which shows the former Spanish king in a sexual act with a dog.”

“Art museums and publishers are currently trying to work out how to respond to the new British copyright law, which goes into effect in 2020 and effectively makes it more expensive to reproduce images in publications and on goods offered in museum shops. But what’s got everyone really worried is that the new regulation makes copyright breach in Britain a criminal, rather than a civil, offense.”

“Once a free-flowing, biomorphic design inspired by the La Brea Tar Pits and the work of the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the design has become noticeably more angular and muscular in recent weeks.” Says LACMA director Michael Govan, “No one will call it a blob anymore. Peter hasn’t given up the curve. But he’s really, really reined it in.”

– looting. In a New York Times Op-Ed, Tom Lutz describes the problems that a poor country like Honduras – and an underfunded discipline like archaeology – have keeping the newly discovered site safe.

“More than 60,000 people visited the structure in the week before it was set alight, leaving hundreds of personal messages of love and loss.”

“Cutting the ribbon at the Villa of the Mysteries, Mr. Franceschini proclaimed: ‘If you asked have we resolved all the problems, the answer is no; if you ask are you resolving them, then we can proudly say yes.'”

“A new worldwide database of public art aims to preserve — if only in digital form — street art, a medium that is often political, sometimes renegade and, perhaps most important, frequently fleeting. These are artworks that may get tagged by graffiti or fall into decay because of weather exposure.”