Category: visual

“At $24 per person, the new museum will be in the same league as the Museum of Modern Art ($25) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (suggested admission of $25). That’s some stiff competition for an institution that has a very focused subject: the terrorist attacks of 1993 and 2001.”

“[He] discussed his methodology, corrected a lawyer on the pronunciation of the artist Robert Rauschenberg’s name and said, quite firmly, that he had never authorized a foundry owner to reproduce one of his famous works depicting the American flag.”

“Christie’s beat Sotheby’s to the global auction house top-spot for the second year running, selling $800m more at auction than its rival in 2013.”

“We find it incredible that the city is being allowed to leave such a valuable art collection untouched when it can’t provide basic services and is proposing to essentially walk away from its debt obligations.”

Judge Rhodes “raised questions about whether he would even allow the sale of DIA art to settle city debt — while also emphasizing that he had not yet made up his mind on the matter. He also said that creditors would have ample opportunity to argue these issues down the road.”

The 700 disputed objects were excavated illegally and then sold “illicitly”, the lawyer claimed. The objects, including sculptures, jewellery and vases, were largely ancient Etruscan treasures from the Lazio and Tuscany regions.

Over the last 12 months Christie’s has expanded its online business and opened showrooms in Shanghai and Mumbai to capture new buyers.

“Two sources familiar with Snyder’s plans said the Republican governor would announce plans for the state to match the $330 million that nine private foundations have already pledged to aid pensioners and protect city-purchased art.”

Plans for a Finnish branch of the Guggenheim empire have been very controversial, and the project has been called off and restarted before. But now land has been set aside and the architectural competition to design the new building is on.

“It is entertaining to see Judith actually chop off Holofernes’s head, but it misses the whole point of Caravaggio, who makes us contemplate one moment of moral choice for all eternity.”