The results reveal that the infants tended to gaze longer at artworks which adult participants rated higher for pleasantness. Van Gogh’s Green Corn Stalks had the highest shared preference. - The Guardian
"The astonishing story of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Padmapani and her Attendants, … a trio of 9th-century Cham sculptures … which were purchased by the NGA for $US1.5m in 2011 (from now-disgraced dealer Douglas Latchford), reads like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie." - The Guardian
The app can be used with Roblox, the popular gaming platform, where a new virtual version of the Met, including spaces like its Fifth Avenue façade and its Great Hall, can be explored. - The Art Newspaper
A movement known as Architectural Uprising is pushing back against Scandinavian design trends — and sometimes forcing architects back to the drawing board. - Bloomberg
The Toronto-based corporation Lighthouse Immersive Inc. is going through insolvency proceedings in Ontario, and it has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in Delaware in order to protect its U.S. assets as it goes through the Canadian legal process. - Artnet
The trend started last July when the Metropolitan Museum of Art — New York’s largest art museum — raised its adult admission price to $30, a $5 increase. Others followed, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, with Art Institute of Chicago now one of the most expensive. - The New York Times
As well as overseeing the British Museum during the Covid pandemic, Hartwig Fischer has faced growing controversy over one of the institution’s cultural highlights – the Parthenon marbles, also known as the Elgin marbles – amid calls for the ancient sculptures to be returned to Greece. - The Guardian
"Though (the researchers) agree that the illegal trade in antiquities is a matter of serious concern, they argue that the reiteration of and reliance on this unsubstantiated claim only serve to undermine credibility and attempt to quantify the harm of illegal trading in the wrong terms." - Hyperallergic
 There's a model with Stability AI that utilizes a large data set called LAION. It contains 5.8 billion text and image data pairs. And LAION is open for anyone to see, and that's how I found out the entire body of my fine art work to be in those data sets. - NPR
Beneath La Cinquième Saison lies another Magritte, this one probably a portrait of his wife - though of course he said, "When one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, ‘What does it mean?’ It does not mean anything." - The Guardian (UK)
"The towers have been a source of local pride for almost 100 years, but now a debate has ignited over which structure is which after the local historical society announced plans to immortalise them in a cruet set." - The Guardian (UK)
In Bemidji, Minnesota, "A First Nations tribe in Canada sent the historical society a letter enquiring about a ceremonial water drum. The museum no longer had the artifact, but it forced the staff to re-examine what was in their archives." - Sahan Journal
At a 15th century palace that will become a Four Seasons Hotel, "to the archaeologists’ surprise — and immense delight — the dig brought to light traces of a first-century theater that the team believes was built by Nero." - The New York Times
As Beverly Buchanan's Marsh Ruins sink into the marsh, questions arise. "What should be done when a work is major partly because the artist invited its decay? Perhaps the Marsh Ruins challenge us to rethink the possibilities of conservation itself." - The New York Times
