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"I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso." -Diego Rivera

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July 2008
- Ambitious Director Revives the Louvre
  
  BusinessWeek | 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 Code , and reaped millions for the museum with touring exhibitions. More »
- Stumbling Museum Visitor Smashes $12K Sculpture
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jul 29, 08 3:44 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A 9-foot ceramic totem was smashed to smithereens after a visitor to London's Royal Academy lost her balance yesterday and tumbled into the work, the Guardian reports. The "Five Frauleins" in the work by a noted Costa Rican sculptor now number four. Museum officials are discussing the damage with their insurers. More »
- Is Stripping Performance Art?
  
  Associated Press | Jul 28, 08 12:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Iowa doesn't have all-nude strip clubs—but it does have performing arts centers where women dance naked. Now the loophole in the state's public indecent exposure law that allows nude dancing at "art centers" is under attack in Hamburg (pop. 1,200), reports the AP. More »
- Beetle Bailey Finds New Barracks
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 16, 08 1:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - One of the world's biggest collections of cartoon art has found a new home at Ohio State University, the Wall Street Journal reports. "Beetle Bailey" creator Mort Walker amassed more than 200,000 pieces of cartoon art during his 7 decades in the business but had to move his National Cartoon Museum several times and eventually shut it for good in 2002. More »
- Cruise Ship Art Dealer Faces Class Action
  
  New York Times | Jul 16, 08 6:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Park West Gallery in Southfield, Mich., claims to be "the world's largest art dealer," flogging more works than the major auction houses through its sales on half a dozen cruise lines. But while the onboard auctions promise "good investments," the New York Times reports that Park West is selling works at tremendously inflated prices. Now the gallery is facing a class-action lawsuit by disgruntled collectors. More »
- Wanted: Museum Director to Marry Art, Commerce
  
  Newsweek | 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 a candidate has a PhD in art history but also an MBA," one expert says. More »
- Tab Claims It's ID'd Graffiti Artist Banksy
  
  Mail on Sunday (UK) | Jul 14, 08 10:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An exhaustive investigation has uncovered the carefully guarded identity of guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy, the Mail on Sunda y claims. The man whose works are coveted by celebrities and sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars is Robin Gunningham, now 35, who attended a posh private school as the son of middle-class parents in Bristol, in the west of England. More »
- How a Forger Fooled Vermeer-Lovers
  
  NPR | Jul 13, 08 12:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Johannes Vermeer created only a few dozen paintings in his lifetime, while other major 17th-century artists cranked out 10 times that. That helped a mediocre Dutch painter create convincing forgeries in the 20th century, NPR reports in a look at a new book on one of art's great hoaxes and its undoing. More »
- Chinese Museums Confound Western Expectations
  
  New York Times | Jul 4, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  (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. In a trip across China, the critic discovers a different approach to museum display. More »
- Masters Shore Up Shaky Art Market
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 3, 08 9:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The art market has again defied the economic downturn, with Christie's and Sotheby's bringing in more than $1 billion combined during the past two weeks' London sales—a 19% rise from last year. But those numbers disguise the erratic nature of the market, writes the Wall Street Journal . While new collectors from Russia and the Middle East are paying top dollar for works by established modern masters, younger artists went bust. More »
June 2008
- NYC Waterfalls Make a Splash
  
  New York Daily News | Jun 26, 08 7:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - New Yorkers can feast their eyes on an unusual site over the next four months—waterfalls. Four manmade falls, each about 100 feet high, came to life yesterday at different sites along the East River, the Daily News reports. City officials hope the structures—the work of artist Olafur Eliasson—will bring in loads of tourists before they come down in October. More »
- Monet Sells for Record $80.4M
  
  New York Times | Jun 24, 08 9:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - One of Monet’s rare waterlily paintings sold at Christie’s in London tonight for more than $80 million, a record price for the artist, the New York Times reports. At least six buyers competed for Le Bassin aux Nympheas , a 1919 work from a series of paintings considered among Monet’s most important. An anonymous buyer won the painting with a high bid of $80.4 million. More »
- Blogger Keeps Quake in Focus
  
  Jezebel | Jun 21, 08 8:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Chinese graphic novelist determined to keep the aftermath of last month's earthquake on the front burner is using her new blog to get the message out, and fellow citizen journalists on the other side of the world are catching on. "We love you, Coco Wang," a blogger at New York-based Jezebel writes to the Beijing-based artist. More »
- Hirst Goes Straight to Auction
  
  Time | Jun 19, 08 10:36 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In recent years, art collectors and auction houses have been reaping the profits of soaring contemporary art prices, while living artists watched with chagrin. Now Damien Hirst has stepped into the fray, bypassing the gallery system and bringing his latest works straight to auction. "It’s a very democratic way to sell art," says Hirst, "and it feels like a natural evolution for contemporary art." More »
- 'Fake' Rembrandt a Real $40M Self-Portrait
  
  Associated Press | Jun 19, 08 3:05 AM CDT