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UK's Corbyn Backs Returning Parthenon Sculptures to Greece
Independent / June 4th, 2018
UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn would return the Parthenon sculptures to Greece if elected Prime Minister, he said in an interview with Greek newspaper Ta Nea. Corbyn believes the sculptures, also called the Elgin Marbles, "belong to Greece." The international cultural agency UNESCO ...
Christo to Float 150-Ton Barrel Sculpture on London Lake
ArtfixDaily / April 29th, 2018
The latest work by artist Christo is under construction in London – it's a carefully floating stack of 7,506 barrels. The Mastaba will be a temporary draw in Hyde Park where the piece will float on Serpentine Lake from June 18 (weather permitting) to September 23, 2018. The ...
First Statue of a Woman Enters London's Parliament Square
NPR / April 24th, 2018
The first statue of a woman, and the first to be created by a female artist, went up in London's Parliament Square on Tuesday. For 150 years, monuments to only male statesmen have populated the square, including Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and seven others. ...
Artwork from La Salle University Collection Hits the Auction Block
The Inquirer / April 18th, 2018
Philadelphia's La Salle University is unloading a trove of 46 American and European artworks from its museum collections through Christie's in a series of sales beginning in New York this week. School trustees say the sale proceeds will fund initiatives from La Salle University’s five-year ...
Robert Indiana's Sculptural 'LOVE' Returns to Philadelphia, Descends on Hong Kong
ArtfixDaily / February 13th, 2018
In time for Valentine's Day, Robert Indiana's iconic 'LOVE' sculpture returned to the City of Brotherly Love. The piece was paraded on a flatbed truck around Philadelphia on Tuesday before its reinstallation at John F. Kennedy Plaza, known as LOVE Park, which is undergoing a ...
White House Loan Request for Van Gogh Countered with Gold Toilet Offer
Independent / January 25th, 2018
The White House reportedly requested a loan of a Vincent van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Since Van Gogh’s 1888 Landscape With Snow could not be loaned, the museum responded that it could instead offer an 18 karat gold sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan, first ...
From Abstraction Innovators to Protest Art, Art Basel Miami Beach Mixes Up Eclectic Offerings
ArtfixDaily / December 4th, 2017
From December 7 to December 10, with a VIP preview on Dec. 6, Art Basel's 16th edition in Miami Beach features 268 leading galleries within a more-spaciously redesigned floorplan at the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC). 2017 is an important year for the cultural scene in ...
Teddy Roosevelt Statue Defaced Outside Museum
New York Times / October 26th, 2017
Activists used red paint to deface the base of a bronze Theodore Roosevelt monument at the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan early Thursday morning. "Roosevelt was an open white supremacist and imperialist who is still lionized by the museum and the city plaza ...
45-Foot Female Sculpture Could Head to National Mall
New York Times / October 3rd, 2017
Organizers of an annual vigil held at DC's National Mall plan to temporarily move a 45-foot sculpture of a female nude there to face the White House as part of a November gathering of activists. The "R-Evolution" sculpture stands tall in mountain pose, a yoga posture, and was first created ...
British Art Dealer Convicted of Stealing Artwork from Rolling Stones Guitarist
Rolling Stone / September 13th, 2017
British art dealer Jonathan Poole has been sentenced to prison for stealing artworks from his clients. Poole's clients included the Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, along with the estates of Miles Davis and John Lennon. He plead guilty to 26 charges of fraud and theft made between ...
Antiquities Dealer Sues Wall Street Journal Over Article on ISIS Link
Courthouse News Service / July 18th, 2017
An antiquities dealer has sued the Wall Street Journal over an article linking his family-run art gallery to ISIS, reports Courthouse New Service. It is the second major lawsuit instigated by the gallery this year. Hicham Aboutaam, head of the Manhattan-based Electrum, the agent ...
Brancusi Fetches Record-Setting $57 Million, Nazi-Seized Picasso Makes $45 Million at Christie's
ArtfixDaily / May 16th, 2017
New York's auction "gigaweek" is underway with Impressionist, Modern, and contemporary art offered over four days. Christie's started it off with a solid sale total of $289.2 million, above the $200 million expected. Two notable works soared of the 55 lots offered; in all 78 percent of the lots ...
Iranian Museum Exhibits Over 500 Artifacts Repatriated From the West
Tehran Times / February 9th, 2017
Some 558 historical artifacts including sculptures, earthenware, coins and jewelry, repatriated from Western museums over the last two years, went on display Monday at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran. Tehran Times reports: "Last November, 30 historical artifacts which had been smuggled ...
Jeff Koons Gives Giant Bouquet Sculpture to Paris in Honor of Terror Victims
France 24 / November 22nd, 2016
Artist Jeff Koons announced Monday that he will give a monumental sculpture to France in honor of 130 victims lost in November 2015's jihadist attacks on Paris. The 34-foot bronze, stainless steel and aluminum "Bouquet of Flowers" will depict a bunch of tulips in a hand resembling the Statue of ...
New, Larger Museum Planned at Statue of Liberty
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2016
A new 26,000-square-foot Statue of Liberty Museum within the Statue of Liberty National Monument on New York's Liberty Island was unveiled Thursday. The larger building will replace a small exhibition space inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Architect Nicholas Garrison designed the ...
EXPO CHICAGO Expands Art Program Inside Navy Pier and Around the City
ArtfixDaily / September 19th, 2016
EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Modern & Contemporary Art, has an expanded program of artists this year selected for IN/SITU, EXPO Projects, IN/SITU Outside and OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project. IN/SITU, curated by Pérez Art Museum Miami Associate Curator Diana Nawi, features ...
Heatherwick's The Vessel to Rise Up in New York's Hudson Yards
ArtfixDaily / September 14th, 2016
It boasts 154 interconnecting stairways, 2,400 steps, and 80 landings comprising a mile's worth of walkways. And all of it will lead to nowhere on the Far West Side of Manhattan. New York Times reports that The Vessel is the much-debated, $150-million public landmark set to center the main ...
Christie's Auction in London Brings a Soft Total on Eve of Brexit Vote
Bloomberg / June 22nd, 2016
On the eve of the referendum that decides whether the U.K. stays in the European Union, Christie's had its smallest tally for a major evening sale of Impressionist and modern art in more than a decade. The sale total came to 25.6 million pounds ($37.8 million), well below its presale ...
Leon Black Gets Disputed Picasso Bust
Bloomberg / June 15th, 2016
A 1931 plaster “Bust of a Woman” will go to billionaire Leon Black after lengthy litigation in New York was resolved. The new ownership was announced Wednesday although the case was settled last month. Black was challenged by Qatar's royal family for the sculpture which depicts Picasso's lover ...
Tour the Art Studios Where Whitney Museum Began
New York Times / May 17th, 2016
A $30,000 grant from the National Trust of Historic Preservation will in part support public tours of the New York City art studios where Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) began her vision of an American art museum. Whitney's series of studios along West 8th Street in Greenwich Village ...