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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a trucker took down an Antony Gormley statue, vandals hammered a shiny public sculpture, and a Swiss dealer got in trouble for selling stolen Picassos to a Russian billionaire.
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USC Administration Shuts Down Art Students' Blog
Last month, an unofficial blog set up by graduate students at USC’s Roski School of Art was quietly taken down.
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A Petition to Stop "Irresponsible" Restoration of Chartres Cathedral
A new petition against the cathedral's restoration claims work done over the past six years has irreversibly damaged the 800-year-old building and erased centuries of the history that makes it so special.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Anish Kapoor's Versailles sculpture was vandalized for a third time, a soccer-themed issue of THE THING Quarterly tackles art critic Ken Johnson, and a new project space opened at a secret location in NYC.
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Artists Take Pens to Their Wall Labels at the Lyon Biennale
The 2015 Lyon Biennale officially opened today, but some participating artists have already expressed dissatisfaction with how their works are presented.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Warhols go missing in Los Angeles, a papier-mâché cat goes up in flames, and vandals attack a dystopian equestrian sculpture.
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US Customs Officials Confiscate Sculpture Made of Weapons
A legal battle is brewing over a sculpture by Mozambican artist Gonçalo Mabunda after customs officials, considering it a weapon, confiscated it from its owner.
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Anish Kapoor's Versailles Sculpture Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Slurs
Anish Kapoor’s "Dirty Corner" (2011–15) sculpture in the gardens of Palace of Versailles has been vandalized again but this time with offensive words, including anti-Semitic slurs.
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New Bushwick Gallery Promises to Exhibit "Subversive and Difficult Art"
A new gallery is opening on Meserole Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, next month, and according to its eponymous director, Christopher Stout, it will have a “program of showing subversive and difficult art.”
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A Procession of Black Love Responds to Controversial Michael Brown Exhibition in Chicago
CHICAGO — After the scene of Michael Brown’s death was staged at Guichard Gallery as an artwork this summer, there was a public discussion about the exhibition and the fact that it was created by an artist who identified as white, Ti-Rock Moore.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: "Algie" the inflatable Pink Floyd pig was withdrawn from auction, only one student enrolled in USC's Roski School of Art and Design MFA program, and Sotheby's announced the sale of A. Alfred Taubman's art collection.
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British Library Rejects Taliban Archive Donation
It isn’t every day that one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions refuses to host a massive digital archive of great historical significance.