The streamrolling trend from analogue to digital photography has finally forced Eastman Kodak to file for bankruptcy protection. They have only turned a profit one year out of the last seven, and are now borrowing cash and scrambling to sell digital imaging patents to keep afloat. Eastman Kodak was founded in 1880 – the camera…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has released e-books of selected museum publications, including the exhibition catalogue of the current show Maurizio Cattelan: All. According to the museum, the Guggenheim is “the first museum to release an exhibition catalogue e-book.” Technically, these digital editions follow traditional book designs as well as allow searching, bookmarking pages, enlarging…
A visitor to the new Clyfford Still Museum in Denver defaced a painting worth $30-40 million. It’s not clear what her motives were, but she punched, scratched, leaned on, and attempted to urinate on (!?) 1957-J-No. 2 , seen at left. Okay, she was drunk. In the middle of the afternoon. In a museum?? Via…
UPDATE: Over a year ago we reported that Fisk University wanted to sell a half share of their Alfred Stieglitz Collection to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AK to raise general operational money. While contested by Attorney General Robert E. Cooper, Jr., the University was allowed to proceed but was told it…
Oops. Martin Kippenberger’s When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling (Wenn’s anfängt durch die Decke zu tropfen), on loan from a private collector to Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, suffered an attack motivated by … a strong work ethic. Upon noticing what appeared to be grime in part of the sculpture, a cleaner apparently thought all…
Imagine a museum with unlimited space and budget… NPR this morning reported on a new book from Phaidon, The Art Museum, which has compiled extensive museum highlights from around the world into one collection – the ultimate museum. Over 100 people spent a decade researching and tracking down works. Disparate parts of one altarpiece were…