The three guest curators of the 2014 Whitney Biennial—Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art, MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (Artist and Professor, Painting and Drawing Department, School of the Art Institute, Chicago)—have announced the artists who will participate in next year’s exhibition. Each curator…
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, has launched a new online forum called Art Rules. Here’s how it works: The website asks visitors to answer the question: “What is art?” Their answers appear on the website for other visitors to comment on, and conversations are started around the submitted ‘rules’. Visitors can ‘Agree’ or ‘Disagree’…
Reports have been surfacing that the Malawi National Museum in Minya, Egypt (roughly 190 miles SW of Cairo) has been severely looted during the last week’s demonstrations and unrest. Most portable objects were stolen while heavier objects were burned or vandalized. also via Guardian, LA Times, Daily News Egypt and Unesco
Recently, Detroit’s Emergency Manager has called for Christie’s auction appraisers to determine the current value of the Detroit Institute of Arts‘ holdings, potentially to be sold to help pay off the city’s debt. Now a number of websites and blogs have responded by raising awareness of the museum’s vast and important collection and what’s at…
The Getty has launched its Open Content Program with the aim of sharing its digital resources as widely and freely as possible. They are starting with material from the museum but will be adding content from the Research Institute and Conservation Institutes over time. These images can be used “for any purpose without first seeking…
An American tourist allegedly broke off one of the fingers of a 600 year old sculpture in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence. It is reported that he was trying to “measure it”, and that he is a surgeon. The museum director pointed out that it was a plaster replacement, not an original digit,…