Concerns include “the exclusion of indigenous voices from the museum, the proposed museum site, and whether the institution would further weaken the public national museum that already exists.”
Category: visual
Charges Dropped Against Collector After 2½-Year-Long Antiquities Smuggling Case
Joe Lewis had been accused of smuggling, money-laundering and conspiracy charges over his purchase of ancient Egyptian items “as part of what the government termed the ‘first ever’ dismantling of a cultural property smuggling network in the U.S.”
Man Smashes Ai Wei Wei Vase In Miami Museum As Protest
A South Florida artist is facing a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million vase at Miami’s new art museum in what appears to be a form of protest.
Why Are “Artist Statements” So Awful?
The ubiquitous request “Please include an artist statement …” inspires cringes and groans among artists. An artist friend of mine called artist statements “the dentistry of the art world.”
When Public Art Discussions Go Way Off The Rails
“The decision to abandon the £100,000 Hastings project, which was to have been a gift from local philanthropist David Kowitz, flies in the face of the current faith in using cultural investment to boost the image and economic prospects of areas in decline.”
Germans May Lift Time Limitations On Nazi-Looted Art
“The decision comes just days after a cache of more than 60 additional works surfaced at the Salzburg residence of Cornelius Gurlitt and the country’s culture minister announced plans for an independent centre to research and restitute Nazi-looted art.”
Where Do TV Shows Get Their (Often Mediocre) Art?
“TV art is headed in the right direction, but it’s been flattened. The failure of these fabricated art objects to be neither valid nor completely ridiculous means that most of the comedy comes from outside the art.”
Would You Want To Be The Guy Who Removed A Picasso And In The Process Destroyed It?
It may well be that Aby Rosen is “legally empowered to take down ‘Le Tricorne,’ and in so doing run the very real risk of destroying it. We’ll find out a few weeks from now. But it shouldn’t have to come to that. Mr. Rosen claims to appreciate art. Well, here’s the acid test of his appreciation.”
The Academies Time Forgot – Where Traditional Academic Figurative Art Rules
These national academies in Eastern Europe maintain the academic figurative art traditions. They’re clearly out of step with the contemporary world. And yet, do they preserve traditions we might rediscover and value again?
Maybe Not A Surprise: Design-Driven Companies Wildly Outperform Competitors
A new analysis by the Design Management Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit focused on design management, puts numbers to what design junkies suspected all along: in the past 10 years, design-driven companies outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500–a stock market index of 500 large publicly traded companies–by 228%.