A vandal had more than 15 minutes to smash vitrines and priceless art before security realized something was wrong - and the photos show the extent of his rampage. - Dallas Morning News
Part of the problem lies in the rhetoric of "terrorism" - something that Lima's political elite seems to use whenever any other part of the country disagrees with, or protests, their policies. - Hyperallergic
"sdf"The Vermont Law and Graduate School wants to take down a mural that some consider outdated and racist. But a law protecting artistic expression could preserve the painting." - WCAX (Burlington)
The proposed architectural overhaul for London's Liverpool Street Station has some issues. "The new work was represented as a white substance impervious to weather and dirt. Trees were shown flourishing in overshadowed locations where they would struggle to grow." - The Observer (UK)
The term is now "mummified person." Museums in the UK and some in the US "have rewritten their display labels and online resources with the new language as it 'can encourage visitors to think of the individual who once lived.'" - Hyperallergic
A hundred years post-Dada, Corecore "confronts viewers with an onslaught of media tidbits stitched together and overlaid with melancholy orchestral (or piano) compositions and pseudo-deep talking points that waver between encouraging defeat and sparking a revolution." - Hyperallergic
They uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. - The Archeologist
"Federal appeals court judges Wednesday ordered (museum) officials to hold onto a long-missing multimillion-dollar painting by Vincent van Gogh" — The Novel Reader — "less than a week after (a judge) dismissed a lawsuit filed by the purported owner, Brazilian collector Gustavo Soter," who claims it was stolen from him. - The Detroit News
"Researchers from the (UK) used facial recognition technology to identify the author of a painting known as the de Brécy Tondo. ... The researchers found that the faces of the Madonna and child in the de Brécy Tondo were identical to ones in the Raphael altarpiece Sistine Madonna." - ARTnews
The effort to provide profiles of everyone from Resistance heroes to those wowed by Nazi propaganda "has touched a sensitive nerve among many Dutch people, ... argue that it fails to adequately distinguish between good and bad behavior." - The New York Times
"The new renderings include the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, a planetarium proposed in 1925, as well as the National Life Insurance building, the floating cabins of Summer Colony on Lake Tahoe, and his most famous unrealized structure ... in Chicago." - Artnet
"On Tuesday, Egyptian archaeologists announced that they had uncovered a complete 1,800-year-old residential Roman city. … Most archaeological work in Luxor, a city that has regularly turned up all kinds of ancient material, has focused on temples and tombs, so the city is a somewhat unusual find." - ARTnews
The Texas-born "Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi has ... defied the court order demanding she vacate Rome’s Villa Aurora. The property is known for its rare mural by Caravaggio." - Artnet
The post-fire clearance took forever - "'intricate and painstaking' work, done by hand, of removing from the site and evaluating in excess of 2,400 of tonnes of fire-damaged material – 1,200 tonnes of which can be recycled for the rebuild." - The Guardian (UK)
