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ART REVIEW

 Disturbing Dumas 
 Divides Critics 

South African painter's first American retrospective opens at MoMA

Dec 12, 08 8:26 AM CST
(Newser) - The South African painter Marlene Dumas has established herself as one of the most challenging artists of recent times, and her austere, anonymous portraits are loved and loathed in equal measures. Sure enough, her first American retrospective—entitled Measuring Your Own Grave, opening this week at MoMA in New York—... More »

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art museum • art • painting • painter • Museum of Modern Art • exhibition • Marlene Dumas

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 Toronto Opens 
 Gehry's Sober 
 Masterpiece 

Art Gallery of Ontario eschews wild curves for spare, light-filled spaces

Dec 4, 08 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Frank Gehry has lived in Los Angeles for decades, but the celebrity architect was born and raised in Toronto. On the eve of his 80th birthday, his hometown has opened its first Gehry building: the new Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto's Chinatown. Gehry's renovated museum, which displays a... More »

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art museum • architecture • Canada • Frank Gehry • Toronto

As Museums Struggle,
LA's MOCA Seeks Merger

MoCA holds talks with other institutions as endowment dries up

Nov 21, 08 7:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, one of the nation's leading modern art galleries, is holding talks with other LA institutions about a possible merger. MoCA has already announced a 10% cut in staff and the temporary closure of 50% of its exhibition space. For the New York ... More »

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art museum • Eli Broad • art • Los Angeles • University of Southern California • USC • endowment • Los Angeles County Museum of Art • financial crisis • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

ART REVIEW

 Huge LeWitt Exhibition 
 Is Beautiful Lunacy 

Mass. retrospective traces artist's work in Minimalism and Conceptualism

Nov 17, 08 12:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Sol LeWitt died last year, but his artwork is still being created—executed by handlers according to written instructions. This weekend marked the opening of a massive exhibition of LeWitt’s wall drawings at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, an exhibition Sebastian Smee, in the Boston Globe, calls “... More »

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art museum • contemporary art • art • Massachusetts • Berkshires • Sol LeWitt • Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

 Guggenheim 
 Taps Curator 
 as New Chief 

Pittsburgh's Armstrong heralds new direction for museum

Sep 24, 08 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Foundation has chosen Richard Armstrong, the head of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, as the museum's new director. He succeeds Thomas Krens, who established the Guggenheim as a global brand with branches in Europe and more planned in Asia and the Middle East. But Krens' commercialism and expansionist... More »

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art museum • art • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Thomas Krens • Guggenheim • Richard Armstrong

Met Surprises With Choice of New Director

Tapestries curator takes over America's top museum job

Sep 10, 08 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Metropolitan Museum in New York has chosen Thomas P. Campbell, its curator of European tapestries, as its new director, reports the New York Times. Campbell succeeds Philippe de Montebello, who transformed the Met during his 31 years at the helm. The selection of Campbell, an insider who did not... More »

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art museum • New York • art • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Philippe de Montebello • Thomas P. Campbell

 Stones' Lips Logo Locks $93K 

London museum buys rock-n-roll brand art

Sep 2, 08 11:21 AM CDT
(AP) - Mick Jagger's pout is officially fit for a museum. London's Victoria and Albert Museum announced today it bought the original artwork for the Rolling Stones' famous lips logo, inspired by the singer's mouth, for $92,500. The lips-and-tongue logo was designed by London art student John Pasche in 1970, and... More »

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art museum • London • Rolling Stones • Mick Jagger • art auction

Vatican Objects to Image of Frog on Crucifix

Calls it 'desecration,' but Italian museum won't take it down

Aug 28, 08 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite objections from the pope, a sculpture of a crucified frog will continue to hang in an Italian museum, board officials said today. The Vatican slammed the work, called Feet First, as a blasphemous attack on Christianity. But museum officials cited artistic freedom and said its German creator considered the... More »

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art museum • Pope Benedict XVI • art • Italy • Vatican • sculpture • Catholicism

 Ambitious Director
 Revives the Louvre

Henri Loyrette has global ambitions that grate traditionalists

Jul 29, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - France's publicly funded museums once eschewed the big-money efforts that are common in American art institutions. Not anymore. BusinessWeek profiles Henri Loyrette, the ambitious director of the Louvre in Paris, who has coaxed major corporations to pony up cash, rented out its galleries for the filming of The Da Vinci ... More »

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art museum • France • art • museum • Paris • Abu Dhabi • The Louvre • Henri Loyrette

Wanted: Museum Director
to Marry Art, Commerce

Unique job description complicates search for Guggenheim, Met, others

Jul 15, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - American museums are facing a shift in leadership, Newsweek reports, with 20 of the most prominent fine-art institutions—including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art—in search of directors. A "generational shift" has left institutions seeking specific qualifications: "Ideally... More »

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art museum • art • museum • MBA • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • management • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Philadelphia Museum of Art

(Newser) - These days China feels "both older and newer than any place on the planet," writes  New York Times art critic Holland Cotter. And nowhere is that tension more palpable than in the country's museums, which use antiquities from the millennia-old civilization in service of a rising world power.... More »

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China • art museum • Chinese art • museum • culture

Everybody's
a Critic

Pa. museum guard charged with keying $1.2M painting he 'didn't like'

Jun 6, 08 5:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pittsburgh police have charged a museum guard with defacing a $1.2 million painting he "didn't like," the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Timur Serebrykov, 27, added he was "sorry" for keying the night sky image by Vija Celmins. The work suffered a "large vertical gouge" and... More »

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art museum • art • vandalism • painting • Pittsburgh • Vija Celmins • Carnegie Museum of Art

 Guggenheim Bilbao 
 Honcho Embezzled $800K 

Museum sues CFO after years of fraud

Apr 18, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Museum's outpost in Bilbao is suing its director of finance after he admitted embezzling $800,000 from the institution's coffers. In a long mea culpa letter to the museum's director, Robert Cearsolo Barrenetxea confessed that he had used bank transfers and fraudulent checks to line his own pockets... More »

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art museum • Spain • art • Basque • Guggenheim Bilbao • Bilbao • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Guggenheim's Vegas Gallery Craps Out

Art doesn't play on the Strip; museum outpost folds after 7 years

Apr 11, 08 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Museum's second venue on the Las Vegas Strip is closing its doors after 7 years. The nonprofit satellite gallery, which presented works from both the New York museum and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, was housed in the decidedly for-profit Venetian Hotel. A larger space folded only 18... More »

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art museum • art • Las Vegas • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • Thomas Krens • Las Vegas Strip

Gauguin Sculpture a Fake

'The Faun' outed as impostor after decade in Chicago art museum

Dec 12, 07 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - After a decade on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, a ceramic figure allegedly sculpted by Paul Gauguin was revealed yesterday to be a fake. The museum discovered 'The Faun,' a half-man, half-goat figure, to be the work not of the 19th century French artist, but of a... More »

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art museum • art market • Chicago • art • Britain • art auction • Paul Gauguin • Art Institute of Chicago • forgeries • Shaun Greenhalgh • Olive Greenhalgh • George Greenhalgh • forgery

Vandals Punch Hole in Monet

Group broke into Paris museum during all-night culture festival

Oct 8, 07 2:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four or five people broke into a Paris museum on Sunday and punched a hole in a Monet. The group broke open a back door to the Musee d'Orsay and fled when an alarm sounded, but not before tearing a four-inch hole in "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," a scene... More »

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art museum • France • art • vandalism • painting • Paris • vandals • damage • Monet

Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove

Top modern art collection kept in the basement of Iranian museum

Sep 20, 07 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A basement chock full of Picassos, Monets, and almost every important Western Modernist painter—surely the Louvre? Au contraire, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. That’s where the LA Times’ Kim Murphy found a treasure trove of painstakingly cared-for paintings that have seen the light of day but once... More »

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Iran • art museum • Tehran • art • Andy Warhol • painting • Picasso • Jackson Pollock • Monet • Kandinsky • Islamic Revolution

Art Heist at French Museum

Sisley, Monet lost when gunmen storm French museum in brazen daylight heist

Aug 6, 07 8:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hooded gunmen stormed a French museum in Nice yesterday afternoon and stole two Brueghel masterpieces, a Sisley, and a Monet. The thieves ordered employees to lie on the floor before stuffing the paintings in bags and fleeing. Police believe the heist was a "special order" for a private buyer... More »

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art museum • France • art • robbery • painting • art heist

Museum Bids to Turn
eBay to Art

Vermont museum gives celebs $1000 to blow online, then curates finds

May 29, 07 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ebay as high culture? The Shelburne Museum in Vermont is showcasing the online auction winnings of celebs such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bianca Jagger, and John Lurie, in an exhibition titled "Got eBay? Celebrity Collections Created Online." Museum director Stephen Jost gave a group of big names $1000 each... More »

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art museum • contemporary art • eBay • art • museum • Bianca Jagger • John Lurie • Jerry Seinfeld • Shelburne Museum • Vermont • online auction

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