SF MoMA Looks Forward to Neal Benezra
“It's a perfect fit for us,” said San Francisco Museum of Modern Art board chairwoman Elaine McKeon, speaking of Neal Benezra, who will assume the directorship of the institution on August 1.
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Museum Island Set Afloat
Berlin's “Museum Island” may be the heart of the city, but that hasn't prevented the city-state, severely strapped for cash, from cutting the budget for the renovation of the five unique museums located here.
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Oldest Photo Sold
The earliest recorded image taken by photographic means, an 1825 print by French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce, was auctioned at Sotheby's in Paris on Thursday for the equivalent of $443,220.
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Owner of Italian Auction House Arrested for Selling Fakes
Giorgio Corbelli, 46, owner of the Italian auction house Semenzato, has been arrested for selling fake lithographs on an Italian television shopping channel. Vittorio Sgarbi, however, has come to Corbelli's defense.
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Walking on Saffron in Central Park?
A project to cover the walkways of Central Park in saffron fabric walkways has remained on the drawing board ever since Christo and Jean-Claude first conceived it in 1979. Now, Mayor Bloomberg, a longtime supporter of the idea, may use it to bolster New York's flagging tourist economy.
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Exhibition of Corpses To Go Forward in London
“Body World,” a controversial exhibition that includes 175 human body parts and 25 corpses, is the brainchild of Professor Gunther von Hagens. Now, the British government has ruled that no law prohibits the show from moving forward.
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In Venice, a Commedia dell'Arte
Italy's Silvio Berlusconi has turned the Venice Biennale into a political football, and it's less and less clear if there's anyone willing to catch it.
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A New Face at the National Gallery
An eagerly awaited announcement is expected today in Britain that Charles Saumarez Smith, currently director of the National Portrait Gallery, will become the next director of the National Gallery.
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Mona “the Tigress” Lisa?
The art world's most famous face—Mona Lisa—may have belonged to a promiscuous courtesan who was nicknamed “the Tigress,” according to a decade of research by a leading art historian.
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MoMA Selling Duplicate Atget Prints
The Museum of Modern Art is selling over 1,000 duplicates from its collection of Eugène Atget prints, which is the second largest after that of the French government.
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Sotheby’s and Christie’s to Return to Court
A US appeals court has ordered that the antitrust case against Sotheby’s and Christie’s, which has already cost the auction houses over $500 million, be reinstated.
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“Mirroring Evil” Exhibition Dubbed “Obscene”
Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors have condemned “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,” which recently opened at New York's Jewish Museum.