There was a good article in the New York Times last week on the many facets of repatriation of looted artifacts. Some cases involve pressure from countries of origin and lengthy legal battles, such as that surrounding the Euphronius Krater, left, which spent many years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before travelling back to…
The Tate announced the online availability of Audio Arts, an “audio cassette-magazine” established by artist Bill Furlong in 1972, that contains interviews, soundworks, readings, lectures and other events with and about modern and contemporary artists. The online resource features all the published versions of Audio Arts — which was in publication for 33 years in 24 volumes,…
We all know not to touch works of art in museums. Or, at least most of us know this. A student on a quest for a fabulous selfie, however, seems to have missed that lesson: the student, who was visiting the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, climbed onto a sculpture of the “Drunken Satyr,”…
Almost two years ago, the University of Iowa Museum of Art sent Jackson Pollock’s Mural (1943) — a large 8 x 20 foot canvas — to the Getty for technical study and conservation. This extensive study has yielded “much new and significant information about the painting and its role in a transitional moment in Pollock’s…
The Board of Trustees of Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, NY, has announced it has no alternative but to create a “special task force to develop and implement a recovery plan” for the deficit-laden institution. As of now, they have a projected deficit of $500,000 in this fiscal year and have been forced to cancel…