Art Movements
Sculptor Ruth Asawa passes away, graffiti gentrification in London, a tourist breaks of a Florence statue's finger, and more...
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
After local street artists had their art painted over prior to the 2012 London Olympic Games, international artists were commissioned this year to paint in their place, with Sweet Toof, one of the artists who formerly painted there, calling it “graffiti gentrification.”
An American tourist accidentally broke off the finger of a 600-year-old statue believed to be by Giovanni Ambrogio in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence.
Sculptor Ruth Asawa, who worked with space through wire woven lattices, passed away this Monday.
Fake personas from a public relations executive hired by a Dallas condominum’s law firm were revealed to have been used in the building’s battle with the Nasher Sculpture Center over how the residential tower is detrimental to their exhibition spaces. Here’s Hyperallergic’s coverage of how the building “destroyed” a James Turrell installation.
After being in a British museum for over 150 years, the mummified head of a Maori chief is finally being returned to New Zealand.
A libel suit that was brought against the New Yorker by forensic art expert Peter Paul Biro over an article that questioned his methods was dismissed.
An Open Access Policy was adopted by the Academic Senate of the University of California, meaning that all its research articles from its 10 campuses will be freely available to the public.
The giant can of Crisco placed by Detroit’s Joe Louis arm sculpture has been removed, and is now up for auction on eBay. Here’s Hyperallergic’s coverage of the guerilla art intervention.
The world’s tiniest “Mona Lisa,” just the width of a single hair, was created by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology.
22,000 billboards in the UK will be taken over by paintings by artists like Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, John Singer Sargent, William Hogarth, and David Hockney as part of Art Everywhere.
For the first time, Qatar and Fiji had places designated as World Heritage sites by UNESCO. For Qatar, it’s the Al Zubarah Archaeological Site and for Fiji it’s the Levuka Historical Port Town.
An often-used painting preservation method using wax-resin lining may actually be causing damage, new research at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Conservation indicates.
Pastels by Bob Dylan will be exhibited this fall at the National Portrait Gallery in London, despite them not being portraits of anything related to the country.
The McSweeney’s archive was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center.
The first 3D-printed chair was acquired by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
After it wrecked on Rikers Island, the Harvest Dome sculpture project constructed from old umbrellas and used plastic bottles is trying its environmental message voyage again.
