“It has become clear that some of the forged works remain in museum storage, that two were returned to the gallery and that the whereabouts of many more are unknown. Some of the duped buyers are taking action: three new lawsuits have been filed, bringing the number of ongoing civil cases to eight.”
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Lawsuits Mount Over Faked Art
“It has become clear that some of the forged works remain in museum storage, that two were returned to the gallery and that the whereabouts of many more are unknown. Some of the duped buyers are taking action: three new lawsuits have been filed, bringing the number of ongoing civil cases to eight.”
Pompidou Centre Will Open Satellite Museum in Málaga (Or Will It?)
The Andalusian resort city’s mayor says that the Paris contemporary art centre will display about 70 pieces from its collection in a new structure. The Pompidou itself says that “nothing is confirmed and negotiations are still ongoing. It is definitely not an outpost in the style of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.”
How Andy Warhol Explains China’s Attitudes Toward Chairman Mao
Under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese Communist Party decreed that the Great Helmsman was 70 percent right and 30 percent wrong. “And this mixed legacy makes it hard to pin down exactly what about Mao Party leaders want to celebrate, and what about him they don’t. Who could have anticipated this? Andy Warhol.”
Pompidou Centre Will Open Satellite Museum in Málaga (Or Will It?)
The Andalusian resort city’s mayor says that the Paris contemporary art centre will display about 70 pieces from its collection in a new structure. The Pompidou itself says that “nothing is confirmed and negotiations are still ongoing. It is definitely not an outpost in the style of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.”
How Andy Warhol Explains China’s Attitudes Toward Chairman Mao
Under Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese Communist Party decreed that the Great Helmsman was 70 percent right and 30 percent wrong. “And this mixed legacy makes it hard to pin down exactly what about Mao Party leaders want to celebrate, and what about him they don’t. Who could have anticipated this? Andy Warhol.”
How Do You Design A Light Rail System To Match LA’s Personality?
“Although the spare and modern design marks a clear improvement over Metro’s wildly uneven status quo, it is also overly restrained, even bloodless. What it’s lacking more than anything is the colorful, informal exuberance that has always animated the most significant L.A. architecture and design.”
How Extreme Money Is Transforming Our Cities
In architecture, 2013 was the year great wealth transformed the urban landscape. And nowhere was this more true than in New York City.
A Dozen Maps That Changed The World
From Ptolemy to Korea ca. 1400 to Mercator to Google Earth.
Director Of The Barnes Moves On After Turbulent Tenure
“There was a fair amount of turbulence in the beginning, with one lawsuit after another. He weathered all of that in a spirit of, I would say, extreme graciousness and never lost his cool.”