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art museum stories: 39 news summaries

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 New Museum Piece Shows 
 Viewers Total Blackness 

Miroslaw Balka's How It Is, at the Tate Modern, displays the void

Oct 12, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Tate Modern's latest installation is an enormous steel container—100 feet long, 43 feet high, and 30 feet wide—that envelops visitors in total darkness upon entering. How It Is, by Polish artist Miroslaw Balka, is lined with a suede-like material that is 10 times darker than black paint.... More »

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art museum • London • Poland • modern art • Britain • Tate Modern • Miroslaw Balka

Missing Picasso Found in Iraq?! Probably Not.

The Naked Woman likely not missing, nor
a Picasso, say experts

Aug 27, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • art museum • war • Kuwait • The Louvre • Pablo Picasso • art heist • forgery • invasion

(Newser) - Herb and Dorothy Vogel had just modest incomes—he was a postal clerk, she a librarian—but over four decades they acquired more than 3,600 drawings, paintings, and collages from America's leading artists. They collected so much that they had to stuff works under their bed. But now the... More »

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art museum • art • modern art • museum • collecting • art collector • art donations

Angry Russian Hurls Cup
at Mona Lisa

Really, really miffed that she was denied citizenship

Aug 11, 09 1:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Russian woman distressed that France had refused to grant her nationality took out her frustration on a defenseless national treasure, Reuters reports. “The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as the cup smashed when it hit the screen protecting the... More »

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Russia • art museum • France • citizenship • Mona Lisa • The Louvre • Leonardo da Vinci

 Deface the Bible— 
 Don't Worry; It's Art 

Reactions mixed on gallery exhibit

Jul 23, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - An exhibit at Scotland’s Gallery of Modern Art intended to “reclaim the Bible as a sacred text” did not go entirely as planned, the Telegraph reports. Visitors were invited to “write your way back into” the Bible on display, and the resulting additions ranged from the... More »

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art museum • Christianity • art • religion • Bible • gallery • Jay-ZTV

 UK Art Honcho: 
 We Need More Fakes 

Could be due to planned imitation exhibition, of course

Jul 21, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The head of London’s National Gallery wishes “we had more fakes,” he tells Reuters. “It’s worth having some in a collection. Not having them on display for what they pretend to be, but for what they are,” Nicholas Penny explains ahead of a 2010... More »

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art museum • art • forgery • National Gallery • Jay-ZTV • Nicholas Penny

MUSEUM REVIEW

 Parthenon Gets the 
 Museum It Deserves 


Jun 17, 09 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Parthenon has been called the one “absolutely right” building on the planet, and it now has a fitting memorial, Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair. Hitchens is among the first to visit the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, and it does not disappoint. Artifacts, expert reproductions, and... More »

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art museum • Christopher Hitchens • colonialism • Athens • Acropolis • ancient Greece • Parthenon • frieze

 Picasso's 
 'Magical' 
 Château 
 to Open 

Studio, burial ground private up til now

Jun 9, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - This summer, art fiends can visit Pablo Picasso’s final resting place for the first time—a château where “he devoted himself completely to his art,” the Telegraph reports. Picasso discovered Château de Vauvenargues in the foothills of France’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain made famous... More »

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art museum • France • art • Picasso • artist • Pablo Picasso • Jay-ZTV

 Met's New Look 
 Lets the Light In 

American Wing reopens tomorrow

May 18, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its American Wing tomorrow after a refurbishment that was “all about transparency,” its chairman says. Where benches and shrubs once constricted movement, now visitors can sit on a fountain’s edge, look out on Central Park, and ride a glass elevator “... More »

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art museum • New York City • Metropolitan Museum of Art • renovation • refurbishing • Jay-ZTV

EXHIBITION REVIEW

 Guggenheim Plays It 
 Safe on Wright Show 

The models are great, but Wright show disappoints

May 15, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fifty years after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, historians and critics are still fighting over the legacy of an architect called in turns a genius and a megalomaniac. Now, a new exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York—one of Wright's last buildings—offers an anniversary retrospective of... More »

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art museum • architecture • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Frank Lloyd Wright • Guggenheim • exhibition

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Modern Meets Classical 
 in Chicago Museum Wing 

Piano's addition for Art Institute called his best in a decade

May 15, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - This weekend the Art Institute of Chicago opens a mammoth new modern wing designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Nicolai Ouroussof praises Piano's mix of "Modern and classical themes," and "towering glass-and-steel facade, with its floating roof and excruciatingly slender columns" straddling gritty railroad tracks. The New ... More »

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entertainment • art museum • architecture • Chicago • art • modern art • Art Institute of Chicago • Renzo Piano • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - The Art Institute of Chicago's new $283 million modern art wing isn't just expensive—it's also expensive to visit, reports the Tribune. The museum plans to bump its ticket prices from $12 to $18 a week after the 264,000-square-foot wing's May opening, a move that has recession-minded critics crying... More »

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art museum • modern art • Art Institute of Chicago

Smithsonian Gallery Names New Director

Former MoCA chief takes over Hirshhorn after yearlong search

Feb 27, 09 8:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Richard Koshalek, former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, will become the new head of the Hirshhorn Museum—the modern gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Koshalek expanded MoCA over 20 years, leaving in 1999 to run the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.... More »

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art museum • Washington DC • art • Washington • Smithsonian Insitution • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles • Hirshhorn Museum

 Now Brandeis May Close
 Museum, Keep Art 

But university president insists that museum will have to close

Jan 29, 09 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - In the face of universal shock and disapproval, Brandeis University has backpedaled on its plan to sell 6,000 works of modern art—but it will go ahead with its plan to close its museum. At a meeting with about 200 students, the university's president said that a sharp drop... More »

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art museum • art • modern art • university • Brandeis

Mass. AG Will Probe Brandeis Museum Sale

Art world condemns decision to close gallery, sell collection

Jan 28, 09 6:32 AM CST
(Newser) - The Massachusetts attorney general announced a probe into Brandeis University's shock decision to shut its modern art museum and sell off the entire 6,000-work collection. Brandeis did not consult the AG's office or even the museum's board, and wills and agreements between the Rose Art Museum and its donors... More »

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art museum • art • modern art • university • Jasper Johns • Brandeis • Robert Storr

Brandeis Shuts Museum, Will Sell 6,000 Works

Art world shocked as university closes renowned institution

Jan 27, 09 8:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Facing severe budget shortfalls, Brandeis University will close its well-regarded modern art museum and sell off the entire 6,000-work collection, reports the Boston Globe. The move has shocked the art world and drawn heavy criticism from museum and university professionals. "This is not a happy day in the... More »

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art museum • art • Andy Warhol • modern art • Jasper Johns • Brandeis • recession depression

 Met 
 Unveils 
 X-Rated 
 Renaissance 

New exhibition includes 16th-century porn alongside masterpieces

Dec 23, 08 9:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, a new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, comes with a warning to spectators: parental discretion advised. Mixed in with decorous portraits of noblemen are 16th-century pornographic images, dirty books, and other obscene artifacts. For Wall Street Journal critic James Gardner,... More »

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art museum • New York • art • pornography • sex • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Renaissance


 Troubled LA Museum 
 Wins $30M Bailout 

MoCA warms to Eli Broad amid reports that director has resigned

Dec 19, 08 7:27 AM CST
(Newser) - LA's troubled Museum of Contemporary Art is moving toward a bailout deal with Eli Broad, reports the Los Angeles Times. The billionaire real estate investor and art collector offered MoCA a $30 million donation contingent on improved performance, which board members favored over a merger with the Los Angeles County... More »

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art museum • contemporary art • Eli Broad • art • museum • Los Angeles • Los Angeles County Museum of Art • bailout • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Crisis-Stricken LA Museum Mulls Merger

MoCA director prepares to resign as bigger museum offers lifeline

Dec 17, 08 8:13 AM CST
(Newser) - The future of LA's troubled Museum of Contemporary Art became somewhat clearer yesterday, as the institution's director began negotiating his resignation and the larger Los Angeles County Museum of Art proposed a merger. Tomorrow the MoCA board will meet to decide the fate of the troubled museum, which has teetered... More »

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art museum • Eli Broad • mergers and acquisitions • Los Angeles • Los Angeles County Museum of Art • financial crisis • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

 Spain Probes 
 Guggenheim's 
 'Troubled' 
 Finances 

Fraud, mismanagement, profligacy call Bilbao museum into question

Dec 15, 08 6:48 AM CST
(Newser) - A decade ago the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum put the sleepy Basque city of Bilbao on the international art map. But in recent months the institution has been tarnished by an embezzlement scam, overspending on middling artworks, and a $9.4 million loss in a botched currency deal. Now, reports... More »

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art museum • Spain • art • Basque • Guggenheim Bilbao • Bilbao • Guggenheim

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