Two Russian curators have been found guilty of “inciting hatred” with their 2007 contemporary art exhibition Forbidden Art — 2006. The exhibition had angered the Russian Orthodox Church, which condemned several works that depicted Jesus Christ in non-traditional ways and supported the charges against the curators. This in turn worried artists, who countered with a…
In 1993 the California Arts Council teamed up with state government officials for the first “specialty plate” in California: a sunset and palm tree motif, titled Coastline, designed by Pop artist Wayne Thiebaud. Now Governor Schwarzenegger is launching a Million Plates Campaign for the Arts to aggressively help the CAC raise at least $40 million…
Today in the LA Times there’s an interesting article about the history of the Ghent Altarpiece, and the conservation team working on a detailed analysis of it. The work, paid for by a $230,000 grant from the Panel Paintings Initiative of the Getty Foundation, is being done in a high-security room in a side chapel…
A painting was discovered in Yale University’s museum storage that may be by Velazquez. Former curator John Marciari has been arguing for the attribution and is supported by museum director Laurence Kanter. The Education of the Virgin is believed to have been painted for an altarpiece c. 1617. The painting was donated to the museum…
The Red Dot posted last December that Italian researchers were on the hunt for the remains of Baroque painter Caravaggio. The Globe and Mail is now reporting success: while scholars can never be completely certain, they now believe they found partial remains of the artist, who likely died from sunstroke while weakened by syphilis.
That’s the provocative title of the upcoming CHART (Computers and the History of Art) conference (in London, November 2010). Here’s their rationale for the title – full details of the conference on their website: “In recent decades the traditional practices of Art History have come increasingly under attack. This has led to changes so extreme…