Tag: museums
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Antiquities and repatriation
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…
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Tate announces online access to Audio Arts
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,…
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And this is why you don’t touch things in museums, Part 2
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,”…