The 17th-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, widely considered one of the country's most beautiful buildings, has suffered damage to the tiling and shape of its dome, likely due to the weight of the scaffolding erected around it for the restoration project. - Yahoo! (AFP)
A proposed change to the ornate Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress that critics say would remove the symbolic and functional heart of the 1897 Beaux-Arts masterpiece has landed the library on the D.C. Preservation League’s 2022 list of Most Endangered Places. - Washington Post
The Forbidden City Cultural Relics Museum, which opened in 2020 in a restored Yangtze River-front warehouse complex in Chongqing, had a large number of roof tiles slide off, leading to the collapse of one of the museum's several buildings. - Artnet
Twice the financially beleaguered school had secured a merger deal with the University of San Francisco, and both times USF backed out due to concerns about falling enrollment and continued viability. Still uncertain is the fate of SFAI's Diego Rivera mural. - SFist
This so-called revolution strikes at something many hold sacred: the relationship between artist and art, the meaning in an act of creation. What’s happening now is larger than the traditional tension between art and commerce, and it’s occurring at internet speed. - Alta
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York scatters recreations of what these statues ACTUALLY looked like throughout its galleries: they're painted in garish colors with multiple patterns. - NPR
The Museum of Rescued Art is rescued from thieves, from looters, and occasionally from natural disasters, or time itself. "I think of this as a museum of wounded art, because the works exhibited here have been deprived of their contexts of discovery and belonging." - The New York Times
It's "not hitherto unknown biographical or psychological detail, but an understanding of general artistic process that serves to humanise Van Gogh, to make his image less cartoonish, less grandiose, less ridiculous and pathetic." - The Observer (UK)
"New excavation findings provide an exciting glimpse into how early churches built within the period known as Late Antiquity were carried out while revealing insights into one of the most sacred sites within Christianity." - Hyperallergic
Through dissection, of course. "By late 1510 he was in Pavia, a university city south of Milan. ... Pavia is cold in winter, ideal for the preservation of human remains, and many of his anatomical sketches derive from work completed through the winter of 1510-1511." - The Observer (UK)
The voluntary recognition of the union from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures comes less than two months after employees organized. Now for a first contract - which took LA's Museum of Contemporary Art a mere two years. - Hyperallergic
The BMA final vote was 89 to 29 in favor of joining the union, and the vote happened as workers at other Baltimore area cultural organizations - "the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Baltimore County Public Library and The Walters Art Museum have all begun organizing." - Baltimore Sun
The main scandal is about antisemitic art. "So many people worked for so much time on this, ... and by not addressing the accusations of antisemitism — both warranted and unwarranted — in a decisive and transparent manner, Documenta has let this debate eclipse everything else." - The New York Times
