Art Movements

A new director for the Museum of Arts and Design, Renzo Piano named senator-for-life in Italy, goodbye to Toomer Labzda, an underground city found at Hadrian’s Villa, and more…

Brooklyn Botanic Garden fires research staff, racy painting of Putin and Medvedev seized, more paintings from the studio of G.W. Bush, ancient Libyan necropolis bulldozed, and more…

Artifact looting and ancient church destruction in Egypt, the Christie’s appraisal of DIA, Old Masters saved in Berlin, 5 Pointz death knell, and more.

Museum looting in Egypt, Norman Foster leaves Moscow project, Ed Ruscha joins SFMOMA board, Mike Kelley retrospective, and more.

Sculptor Ruth Asawa passes away, graffiti gentrification in London, a tourist breaks of a Florence statue’s finger, and more…

This week, NYC’s $50M Culture Shed, Pussy Riot denied bail, Smithsonian and Trayvon Martin, JFK airport demolishing Pan Am Worldport, London’s Independent cuts Sunday culture critics, and more.

Jeffrey Deitch out at MOCA, SAC Capital indicted, Lincoln Memorial vandalized, the hazardous storage of Smithsonian items, Walter de Maria and Alex Colville pass away, and more…

Stolen Rotterdam Kunsthal paintings feared incinerated, Hôtel Lambert in Paris definitely has burned, Detroit files for bankruptcy, 5 Pointz edges closer to demolition, a major boost for California arts funding, and more.

New plans for the development of 5 Pointz, new funds for Queens museums, the settlement of the National Arts club lawsuit, the demolition of an ancient pyramid in Peru, and more.

Chicago’s Field Museum’s major budget cuts, the return of looted Chinese art, BMW pulls out of BMW Guggenheim Lab, a possible Michelangleo, Baltimore’s the Contemporary planned to reopen, the St. Louis Art Museum’s new expansion …

A collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Bronx Museum finishes $1M acquisition campaign, NY State updates laws for nonprofits, Robert Indiana will have his first major US museum retrospective, Dia is selling part of its collection at Sotheby’s …