Category: visual

“Turkey’s efforts have spurred an international debate about who owns antiquities after centuries of shifting borders. Museums like the Met, the Getty, the Louvre and the Pergamon in Berlin say their mission to display global art treasures is under siege from Turkey’s tactics.”

If you’re on the MOCA board, and you’re rich in art but maybe worried about cash flow, the solution is not so tough: “Peter Brant, a one-time billionaire and an early patron of artist Andy Warhol, is using part of his contemporary art collection to help recapitalize the family newsprint business.”

WIll the parties in the dispute in Fredericton, Canada, ever come to an agreement over 78 disputed works of art?

If Paul Newman can’t make an architect into a hero, who can?

If Paul Newman can’t make an architect into a hero, who can?

“Twenty or so people who were children when they posed in the 1940s and ’50s for their neighbor Norman Rockwell in the Vermont town of Arlington are reuniting there to share their memories of the great American artist who once lived in their midst.”

“JR rarely works in America — he’s completed murals at the High Line in New York, and in Los Angeles, but usually works throughout Europe, Asia and South America. It will be his first project in Washington. He’ll be featuring a photograph by Civil Rights movement photographer Ernest Withers, of the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike of 1968.”

“The Louvre Abu Dhabi, is an entirely separate museum from the Louvre in Paris, Ms. des Cars said, although the two are linked by a 30-year branding and training agreement and the Paris Louvre is one of the 12 shareholders in Agence France-Muséums.”

“The boundaries between gallery and restaurant are increasingly becoming blurred. Some restaurants have employed artists in residence, who are curating whole restaurants, cutlery included.”

“Jeffrey Gundlach said Thursday that an estimated $10 million in 20th century art that was burglarized from his Santa Monica home has now been safely returned, and that police told him they have arrested two suspects. … [He] had posted a $1.7-million reward for the return of works by Piet Mondrian, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, Joseph Cornell and others.”