YouTube: “Jeffrey Deitch, Eli Broad and Jan Perry appear in this video of Mr. Deitch’s welcoming press conference at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Deitch was appointed director of the museum in January, 2010. This video contains commentary by COAGULA At Journal. Coagula… Read More
Clips from an excellent article over at (first click for free, don’t worry!) FT.com: “Much derision has been sparked by Damien Hirst’s exhibition No Love Lost – Blue Paintings at the Wallace Collection in London, with critics branding it “dreadful” and “a stupefying admission of… Read More
timesofmalta.com : “The Turkish city of Izmir has asked Paris’s Louvre museum to return two statues of Greek gods Zeus and Apollo, a newspaper reported. In a letter to the management of the French museum, mayor of the port city Aziz Kocaoglu demanded the return… Read More
Reuters: “Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artefacts at Iraq’s National Museum online, the Web search leader said on Tuesday, part of a U.S. bid to entice foreign firms to invest in Iraq. What is now modern-day Iraq was once known as Mesopotamia… Read More
AFP: “Paris’s Louvre museum on Thursday launched an application giving Apple iPhone and iPod touch users access to its collections. Free to download, the Louvre said the technology available in French and English will permit subscribers to access the best the museum has to offer… Read More
ROBERT E. MATES/The solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Crowds lined up at the opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 21, 1959. NY Daily News: “One of New York’s living legends is turning 50. Today, exactly five decades after it opened its doors, the… Read More
ONCURATING.org: “In recent years, there is a growing interest in the forms and formats of presentation and exhibitions. In artistic production as well as in theoretical and historical reflection, the attention increasingly shifts towards how artistic practices are conferred with meaning through their presentation (from… Read More
BBC: “The Louvre museum in Paris will return five ancient fresco fragments to Egypt within weeks, France’s government says. The announcement comes two days after the head of antiquities in Cairo said he would cease all co-operation with the museum until they were sent back…. Read More
Government papers reveal how John Pope-Hennessy was allowed to export old master painting which he promptly soldDetail of the contentious Carracci The Art Newspaer: “Recently declassified government papers have uncovered a scandal that occurred in 1976, when the then National Gallery director Michael Levey allowed… Read More
Dangerous Minds: “Photographer Richard Barnes spent ten years going behind the scenes in natural history museums documenting the artificial version of wild and the result is a stunning new monograph called Animal Logic.”
