The bill—titled the Art Market Integrity Act—would amend the Bank Secrecy Act to require art dealers and auction houses to comply with anti-money-laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing regulations. - ARTnews
The museum’s collection of Buddhist painting and sculptures includes some of the greatest work in all of its holdings, writes Christopher Knight. It hasn’t been on view for the people of Los Angeles County for going on a decade, and right now it’s only there for a year. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
Named Aeneas after the mythical Trojan hero, the program predicts where and when inscriptions were made and makes suggestions where words are missing. - The Guardian
Geophysicists say Istanbul has a 40-60% chance of a major earthquake by 2055. … There are roughly 40,000 historical sites in Istanbul that need to be protected from earthquakes. … The Washington Post studied three examples from minimal to maximum intervention: Hagia Sophia, the Basilica Cistern, and Zeyrek Çinili Hamam. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Yes, the photographer still best known for the 1987 image of a crucifix in a jar of urine that made him one of the NEA Four is now suggesting a mausoleum-like monument to Donald Trump as the official U.S. contribution to next summer’s Biennale. - Artnet
The notorious banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall, titled Comedian, debuted in 2019 at Art Basel Miami Beach, where a visitor walked into the gallery and ate the fruit. That's happened three times since, most recently last week at the Pompidou-Metz. Cattelan's complaint is that the guy didn't eat the banana peel and duct tape. - France 24
Despite more advanced manufacturing and design technologies than have existed in human history, our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and the gray, punctuated here and there by the occasional childish squiggle. - n+1
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, umbrella organization for the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, is eliminating 12 positions. A statement explained the layoffs as a response to reduced municipal funding due to the city’s budget crisis, a slump in tourism, and a continued slump in attendance post-COVID. - San Francisco Chronicle
"If you look at one of our works randomly on the street, you wouldn't be able to say that's made by a robot, but we can't yet do all art under the sun because there's a lot of techniques that we haven't yet built in." - CBC
Donors are reportedly planning to pull support from, or have already severed ties with, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art following its controversial transfer from Florida State University to New College of Florida earlier this year on the orders of Governor Ron DeSantis. - ARTnews
Johnny Depp’s new film Modi: Three Days on the Wings of Madness explores the artist’s struggle to sell his work, and the tension that existed between his own idealism and the need to be commercially minded. - The Conversation
In the 1990s, Kinkade estimated that one in twenty American homes owned a piece of his art, and reports suggest that his company boasted around 350 franchised galleries at the peak of his popularity. - Dissent
The Yale Art Gallery, the renowned university museum in New Haven, Connecticut, has withdrawn two federal grant applications for an African art exhibition after rejecting the new, anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) stipulations introduced by the Trump administration. - ARTnews
The page was entitled “Creepy Portrait Art,” and the pictures were, as promised, incredibly creepy. Dozens of student portraits, mostly in crayon, depicted a grab bag of nightmarish externalization: twelve- and thirteen-year-olds with bleeding wounds, sutured mouths, and dangling eyeballs. - The Walrus
