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Julian Schnabel’s Big Show In Spain Is Postponed Because All The Truckers Are On Strike

"Schnabel's 23-painting show at the Centro de Arte Comporaneo (in Málaga) was expected to open on Friday, but it will no longer kick off as planned, since it became impossible for the museum to obtain all the works on time." - ARTnews

Using VR To Study Pompeii’s Design Choices

The paper argues that eye-catching elements in a Pompeiian home would have been important status symbols, with buildings designed to highlight some features while minimizing others. Using angled walls or building raised floors, for instance, would have made a home’s interior seem larger and more impressive. - Artnet

Another Ukrainian Museum Destroyed By Russian Artillery

"A museum in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol dedicated to the 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom both Russians and Ukrainians embrace as their own, was destroyed by an airstrike on Monday morning, Ukrainian media and the head of Ukraine's artists union reported." - The Art Newspaper

Art Basel Reveals Plans For Its Paris Version (Just Don’t Call It Art Basel Paris)

The annual October fair will be called Paris+, by Art Basel. (But will it be pronounced "Parris Pluss" or "Paree Pluice"?) - Artnet

Teheran Museum Director Fired After Performance Art Mishap

The dismissal came in the wake of a performance art mishap at the museum that saw Yaser Khaseb accidentally fall into a large, artist-designed pool of oil while performing an aerial act above it. - Artnet

17th-Century Tapestry Is Complete Again, 42 Years After A Portion Was Cut And Stolen

In 1980, an art thief known as "Erik the Belgian" stole a set of half a dozen Flemish tapestries, created by a follower of Rubens, from a small-town church in northern Spain. Within two years, all six were retrieved, except for one 2'x2' fragment, now recovered and reintegrated. - Smithsonian Magazine

Norway’s Much-Delayed $500 Million Museum Finally To Open

Located on Oslo’s western waterfront, the £500m museum will be the biggest in the Nordic region when it opens on 11 June. - The Guardian

The New Museum Housing Vast Treasures Of Medieval Georgian Art

The region of Svaneti, a pair of protected valleys high in the Caucasus Mountains, was where the rest of the country sent its finest work when the armies of Byzantium or Persia or the Ottomans or Russia came a-conquering. Here's a look at where those treasures are kept today. - Apollo

Five More Ancient Egyptian Tombs Are Unveiled At Saqqara

"The tombs, which are believed to have housed senior officials from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate period, date back to as long ago as 2700 BC. ... Archaeologists found not only well-preserved paintings, but also small statues and pottery as well as stone and wooden coffins." - Deutsche Welle

After Almost 20 Years, The Art Scene In Baghdad Is Showing Signs Of Revival

As bad as things often got after the wars started in 2003, art and artists in Iraq's capital never went completely dormant.  Now galleries are starting to open and some artists who fled abroad are returning home. - Artnet

The iPhone Uses AI To Enhance Images. Is It Too Smart To Take Good Pictures?

A careful examination of the 13 Pro noted visual glitches caused by the device’s intelligent photography, including the erasure of bridge cables in a landscape shot. “Its complex, interwoven set of ‘smart’ software components don’t fit together quite right,” the report stated. - The New Yorker

The World Heritage Sites At Risk In Ukraine

Among the UNESCO World Heritage monuments in immediate danger of destruction is the irreplaceable 11th-century cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. - The Conversation

The Myths Of Black Artists And Landscapes

Ingrid Pollard, a British photographer known for her portraits and landscapes, says, "Everything about is fabricated for industrial rural use. The barbed wire, the telegraph pole, the tarmac. Stereotypes about Black people are constructed in exactly the same way." - The Observer (UK)

Australia Is, For Some Reason, In The Midst Of A Handmade Ceramics Boom

Sure, some people are making midlife career changes, but for others, it's social media - and the coronavirus, as with a young potter whose "unexpected lockdown hobby turned into a small business." - The Guardian (UK)

The Really Boring, Fairly Bad Art Of The Coronavirus

Our aesthetics just can't keep up. "The visual monotony of the crisis has put art departments at news organizations in a pinch. How do you keep covering one of the most important stories of our time when the story keeps revolving around the same virus?" - Slate

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