Category: visual

For instance, the head of the Giacometti Foundation says, “We counted the other day 2,005 fake Giacometti sculptures for sale [on a single Web site].” One recent statistical study “estimated that as many as 91 percent of the drawings and small sculptures sold online through eBay as the work of the artist Henry Moore were fake.”

“German art historians, conservators and newspapers united to criticise plans to empty the Gemäldegalerie of its Old Masters for the sake of Modern art. ‘Save the Gemäldegalerie!’ was a headline that ran in four German newspapers. But the plan is beginning to find influential supporters, including Thomas Campbell, the director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

It’s all fun and games until Hirst slams Van Gogh on a beloved UK children’s show.

“Can cat videos be just as appealing in the open air, experienced with others, as they are in the glare of a glowing screen? ‘We’re sharing on the Internet,’ Schultz says. ‘The question is, would we come together to share?'”

Ørestad, a built-from-scratch district near the Danish capital’s airport and the Øresund Bridge and tunnel to Sweden, is meant to be a “crossroads of Scandinavia” and to eventually hold 100,000.”But ten years into Ørestad’s life, planners have quietly discarded its signature project, the 2006 master plan for a downtown designed by the Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind. Why?”

“Campbell’s said Wednesday that a new limited-edition line of Warhol-themed condensed tomato soup cans will go on sale starting Sept. 2 at most Target stores across the country. The cans, priced at 75 cents each, are intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the pop artist’s first paintings of the familiar soup cans.”

“The colors range from brilliant blues and reds to vibrant greens and yellows, not to mention royal purple. The sudden appearance of the pigeons of St. Mark’s – considered so much a public nuisance that the local government made it illegal to feed them in 2008 – in something other than the standard gray seems to have delighted the tourists. But it also seems, perhaps just as predictably, to have outraged animal rights defenders.”

Not much … well, except that you find the first artistic depiction of the British Midlands’ mysterious stone circles.

A lot – and the discoveries keep on coming.

“The Broad Foundation has made a $1.5-million payment to L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art, bringing it out of arrears on Eli Broad’s pledge to provide $3 million a year for MOCA’s exhibitions through 2013.”