“Sotheby’s said Tuesday that an ancient calligraphy scroll the auction house sold in September for $8.2 million was authentic, despite recent claims by a group of Chinese art historians who insisted it was likely a 19th-century reproduction.”
Category: visual
Can Britons Save the Red Telephone Box?
“People in the United Kingdom are racing to save a beloved icon, in a mission that in some ways resembles efforts to save the giant panda in China, or the polar bear in the Arctic.”
Judge Orders Stolen Renoir Found In Flea Market Returned To Baltimore Museum
“A federal court judge signed an order Tuesday clearing the way for a stolen landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir to be speedily returned to the Baltimore Museum of Art, 62 years after the painting was stolen.”
New MoCA Chief: I Can Fundraise
“My vision is to commit to the most experimental artists of our time, but also to contextualize their work within a broader context. And I think MOCA’s collection is one of the best to contextualize that kind of experimentation.”
Architect Elizabeth Diller Defends MoMA Building Plan
“I think that the press has been too fast to reduce the conversation to heroes and villains and martyrs, and to suggest that what MoMA is doing is necessarily bad. We want to get more information out. We want to share the problem with others and invite them to really take a hard look.”
Martin Filler: MoMa Building Plans Are A Blunder
“Not since the vandalizing of Charles Follen McKim’s Pennsylvania Station half a century ago has New York City’s architectural patrimony been dealt such a low blow.”
L.A. MOCA Names New Director
Philippe Vergne, director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, replaces the controversial former art dealer Jeffrey Deitch, whose rocky tenure ended after three years of a five-year contract.
There’s an Art Jihad in Uzbekistan
“Jihad” has become a loaded word, but a group of video artists in the Central Asian republic are “using it to brand their own subversive, humorous criticisms of the overpowering central state.”
Understandably Arbitrary To Be Sure, But Here’s The Telegraph’s List Of Top Five Treasures In the British Museum
Hate lists? Of course, but they do serve as an entry for discussion…
Can You Solve MoMA’s Issues With A Redesign?
“You might wonder why we should care if one more quirky little building disappears from the streets of New York. After all, buildings come and go all the time; no one knows this better than architects. But the American Folk Art Museum is a casualty of a different sort, and tearing it down will not usher in the new era of popularity that MoMA seems to be aiming for.”