“A palatial pumphouse, an immense stone spillway and a London roundabout are among the 10 most threatened Victorian and Edwardian structures in England and Wales, according to a list published on Wednesday.”
Category: visual
Viennese Museum To Cover Nude Advertising Posters After Complaints
“A museum in Vienna will be censoring large posters that depict three male soccer players wearing nothing but their socks and cleats after the advertisements provoked an outcry in the city.”
The Art World’s 100 Most Powerful
“Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has topped ArtReview’s eleventh annual ‘Power 100’ list. The curator of Documenta 13 is the first female number one and only the second curator (after Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2009) to top the list .”
Rothko Vandal Pleads Guilty In London
“Wlodzimierz Umaniec, 26, pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property valued at over £5,000 at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court.”
Founding Donor Says He Won’t Let Roanoke’s Art Museum Go Broke
“The Taubman Museum of Art’s biggest financial supporter said he and the museum’s new board of directors … have infused the cash-strapped museum with about $1.5 million to help it cover operating costs for the rest of the year … [and promise] that the arrangement will continue as long as it needs to. The museum’s annual budget is about $3.4 million.”
How To Save A Chicago Brutalist Landmark
“A familiar sort of preservation battle has been stewing for months here over the fate of the old Prentice Women’s Hospital, a concrete, cloverleaf structure from 1975 by Bertrand Goldberg, the Chicago architect.” The owner, Northwestern University, wants to demolish it, but the city’s newest starchitect, Jeanne Gang, has a rescue plan.
Big Auction Houses Go Into Competition With Galleries By Opening Their Own Spaces
“Sotheby’s inaugurated what it calls a “dedicated private sale exhibition gallery”, called S|2, in its York Avenue headquarters in New York last year, and has held six exhibitions there since.”
Art Thieves Are Just Plain Stupid
“Like the mafia dons who learned proper gangster style from Hollywood, they draw their picture of the high-end art world from movies rather than from life.”
Revealed: Damien Hirst Show Killed 9,000 Butterflies
“It was recently revealed that more than 9,000 butterflies died as part of Hirst’s recent exhibition, In and Out of Love, at London’s Tate Modern gallery.”
Why Stealing Great Art Is A Bad Business Plan
Robert Wittman, founder of the FBI’s art crime team: “[Thieves] read in the newspaper about about the growing value of paintings and the new records that are set every year by Cézannes and Picassos, and then they think that they can get a payday by going out and doing a heist. What they don’t understand is that the value of art is dependent on three things: authenticity, provenance – the history of the art – and legal title.”