Category: visual

“It’s so insulting to the artists there, where you’ve got an old non-Indigenous lady saying these Indigenous art works are not worthy of being awarded any prize.”

“An astonishing complex of ancient monuments, buildings, and barrows has lain hidden and unsuspected beneath the Stonehenge area for thousands of years. Scientists discovered the site using sophisticated techniques to see underground.”

Ariel Zuckerman and Eran Shimshovitz “hung wooden boards around the southern Tel Aviv neighborhood near their workshop and waited for graffiti artists to do their work.” Which they did – whereupon Zuckerman and Shimshovitz took the boards back to the workshop and fashioned them into furniture.

“‘It’s a race against the tide, it’s nine hours of furious work,’ says the artist who is best known for making huge geometric snow designs in the Alps with his feet.”

“In a report published Wednesday, Italy is identified as one of the countries doing the least to research or identify items that may been looted from Jews during World War II.”

“Mr. Lehman made many attempts to reinvigorate the museum. But he will most likely be remembered for being at the center of one of the most bitter public fights in recent museum history when, in 1999, he presented “Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection,” a show of art from the holdings of Charles Saatchi, the British advertising magnate.”

“How can a work of public art, located on public land and funded by taxpayer money, be the intellectual property of an individual artist? Actually, it’s not that uncommon. Portland was a leader in first allowing artists to retain copyright on all public art, but other cities, from Seattle to Miami, have followed suit.”

“Mr. Levett became a voracious buyer, assembling one of the world’s largest private collections of ancient arms and armor. Today, his scores of Greek hoplite helmets, Roman greaves and shields, along with Egyptian sarcophagi, Greek statues and ancient glass, are the crown jewels of his Musée d’art classique de Mougins.”

“Steve Murphy, general secretary of the Ucatt building workers’ union, said blacklisting firms should be banned from public contracts until they had ‘fairly compensated the workers whose lives they ruined.'”