Category: visual

“There is still a glass ceiling when it comes to recognition. Women are no longer prevented by a guild system from actually training as artists. But they are consistently denied the ultimate accolades of fame and respect.”

“In its latest report, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, Egypt’s best human-rights organization, documents a total of 47 churches attacked, of which 25 were burned, seven looted and destroyed, five partly damaged, and 10 attacked without sustaining heavy damage.”

“The latest political unrest in Egypt has resulted in the theft and destruction of more than 1,000 artifacts in a museum south of Cairo, according to multiple published reports. The looting is believed to have taken place over several days starting last week.”

“The agreement ends a long dispute over an initial plan to move the city’s collection of Old Master paintings out of its current home at the Gemaldegalerie and build a new home for it on the Unesco-listed Museum Island to make way for the 20th Century collection.”

“By offering what a gallery cannot — seemingly endless gawking at artwork, artists and celebrities — the fairs are as popular, glamorous and fizzy as Cristal, attracting both the new moneyed classes that fly in from Kiev, Shanghai, Doha or Abu Dhabi and the serious American collectors who now prefer to do their browsing at fairs at home and abroad.”

“On Tuesday, officials in Oakland County — one of three Michigan counties that agreed last year to institute a property tax increase to save the Detroit Institute from devastating budget cuts — unanimously approved a resolution warning that any attempt to use the museum’s collection or budget to raise money for the city’s creditors would “terminate any obligation” of the county to continue to provide support.”

“A New York art dealer who was known as a source of undiscovered masterpieces by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and other modern artists is close to resolving criminal charges related to her alleged sale of fake artwork and her failure to pay taxes on those works.” Prosecutors said they expect to make more arrests in the case.

“Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services is being hit with a lawsuit in New York court alleging that its ‘gross negligence’ during Superstorm Sandy damaged art collected by late cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. The facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Christie’s auction house that stores and protects art for outside clients.”

“The Vasari Corridor is a long, raised passageway that connects the Palazzo Vecchio, in Piazza della Signoria, with Palazzo Pitti, on the other side of the river Arno.”

“A panel of experts has recommended demolishing the buildings and removing the murals. But art experts say that as the murals were designed by Picasso for those specific buildings, they should remain where they are.”