The California student was at an estate sale. “I looked closely at the back and I saw it said Chagall and I was like, ‘Marc Chagall, are you serious?’” - Artnet
“Two of the founders of the new camp — architects and friends Mike Laverdure and Sam Olbekson — estimate that there are only about 30 Indigenous architects total in the U.S.” - and they’d like to change that number. - MPR
The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts is training and certifying craftspeople in disciplines that might otherwise be dying out, such as Pakistani kashikari ceramics, Persian miniature painting, Moroccan zellige mosaic tilework and Egyptian Mamluk woodcarving. - The Guardian
"An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York without the institution’s permission." - ARTnews
The move is a result of a lawsuit from, well, people who love cars. They’ll be disappointed, though; the city council did not decide to “reopen” Museum Way to vehicle traffic. - Palm Springs Desert Sun
“A depiction of Greek gods partying atop Mount Olympus at the Olympics opening ceremony spurred conflicting public reactions as primarily conservative critics erroneously claimed that the performance parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s famous fresco The Last Supper (1495–98) and, by extension, mocked Christian beliefs." - Hyperallergic
"With the help of a motley group of intrepid friends, (Leonid) Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens of museums across Ukraine’s frontline – packing, recording, logging and counting each item and sending them to secret, secure locations away from the combat zone." - The Guardian
"One 2017 study put its annual lift to Berkshire County at just more than $50 million. But the numbers tell a less convincing story when it comes to the museum’s economic impact on the people of North Adams." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
"Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, told Parliament on Monday that the tunnel 'would not move forward.' Scrapping the project, which had a proposed budget of $2.5 billion, is part of Labour’s mission to fill a fiscal hole (left behind by Rishi Sunak's Tories) that’s $30 billion deep." - ARTnews
Try it the next time you get a weird feeling about a photo. Just be sure not to focus on the wrong things. To help, we’ve created this (slightly exaggerated) sample image to highlight some common signs of image manipulation. - Washington Post
"Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has reached a settlement in its religious discrimination case with former art history professor Erika López Prater." The terms of the agreement are confidential. - Artnet
On October 14, 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland started the protest-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-call-attention-to-climate-change-by-vandalizing-artworks phenomenon by throwing tomato soup at van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery. The judge in their case told them to prepare themselves for prison when they are sentenced on September 27. - BBC
The central focus of the project was the coin, its removal from its display and its deposition in a donation box at the museum. Sartuzi has described the practicalities of the project, which included preparing a replica of the coin to replace the original, and the focus of reporting has been on the objects. - The Conversation
“Just months after lovingly carving Costanza’s face in marble, Bernini ordered it to be slashed with a knife by one of his servants.” - The Observer (UK)
