“Since being illegally excavated in the 1960s, it has been stolen, replaced by a fake, sold to pay off gambling debts and has allegedly brought down a curse on its plunderers.”
Category: visual
Why Art Theft Is Rarely Lucrative
“Nine times out of ten, when individuals commit a robbery like that, it is done by individuals or criminal organisations which have the ability to do a burglary, but they don’t usually have the ability to sell paintings.”
Is Warhol The Great Vampire Squid Of The Art World?
Warholism “is an octopus whose tentacles reach in every direction. I never imagined I would be defending Marcel Duchamp, but one of the most disturbing developments in “Regarding Warhol” is the failure to make any distinction between Duchamp’s intricate nihilistic aestheticism and Warhol’s slap-happy cynicism.”
Should We Tell Museums What Art Is Or Should They Tell Us?
“Now that the concept of artistic “greatness” has become a political football, many museum curators are reluctant to fulfill their traditional function of helping to define it.”
Tate Modern’s Vandalized Rothko Will Take Major Restoration
“Following a close analysis of the damage, the Tate Modern’s team of leading Rothko conservation specialists have said the work will require a significant amount of work and could take as much as 18 months to restore to its former glory.”
Art Historians Are Flunking The Internet
Getty Trust president James Cuno: “Of course we have technology in our galleries and classrooms and information on the Web … But we aren’t conducting art historical research differently. We aren’t working collaboratively and experimentally. As art historians we are still, for the most part, solo practitioners working alone in our studies and publishing in print and online as single authors and only when the work is fully baked.”
Pitch Battle: Watch Four Starchitects Compete For A Big Manhattan Commission
“You’ve seen them posing in magazines, performing in lecture theatres and maybe even shouting across the office. But it is unlikely you’ve ever sat behind a boardroom table and given Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas or Norman Foster a grilling.”
India’s Town Full Of Architects
Auroville, a settlement in the southern state of Tamil Nadu named after the yogic philosopher Sri Aurobindo, has somewhere between 25 and 100 architects out of a population of 2,000. And it’s a place where they can, at least on a small scale, put some of their more daring ideas into practice.
Banking And Art – Value Out Of Nothing
“The diamonds on the Hirst skull were reportedly worth $23.6 million–the rest of the work’s value was created, overnight, in the assemblage. For the Love of God applies the technique of a leveraged buyout not only to a work of art but as a work of art.”
Naked Men Are Invading Vienna!
“I think we are just used to seeing naked women because they are used as objects of desire in advertisements and TV. Naked men are not that common – we are not used to seeing a penis. I think that is the main problem for people.”