4:47pm
1. Guggenheim to cut 8% of its jobs:
The Guggenheim Museum in New York has announced that it will cut 25 positions from its full-time staff, following an 18% reduction in the museum’s endowment in the last year. A record high attendance this year has helped to ensure that no exhibitions will be cancelled and the opening hours will remain the same, despite the recession.
- New York Times article
2. Dartmouth receives $50m donation for new Arts Centre:
An anonymous family has given Dartmouth College $50m, the institution’s largest ever donation, towards a new arts centre. The...
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Wednesday, 17th June 2009
2:24pm
In his editorial in the current issue of Apollo Michael Hall discusses the impact of the earthquake that shook the Abruzzo region of Italy on 6 April. Hardest hit was the city of L'Aquila – nearly 300 people were killed and an estimated 30,000 are still camped out in tents on the edge of the city while its devastated infrastructure is investigated. All of L'Aquila's historic buildings have been damaged, for example, S Bernardino, Sta Maria di Collemaggio and the Porta Napoli (to access the editorial, click on the link: editorial).
While the Italian authorities are rightly focusing on...
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4:31pm
1. £7m Picasso sketchbook stolen from Museum in Paris:
A sketchbook containing 32 sketches by the Pablo Picasso was stolen from the Picasso Museum in Paris on Tuesday. It was stored in a glass cabinet that had no alarm system and a flimsy lock, which was broken during the theft. The French press have reported that the museum’s security is notoriously ‘feeble’.
- Independent article
2. Art Basel attracts a more frugal crowd:
While attendance remains high, collectors, both seasoned and new, are spending more carefully at this year’s Art Basel, the world’s leading contemporary art fair. One...
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2:26pm
1. The world's top artists flood to Venice for Biennale:
77 countries will compete for international recognition at the 54th annual Venice Biennale, described by some as the ‘art world’s Olympics’, where countries send their best artists to exhibit in pavilions, one for each nation. Although the price of tickets has been raised from $20 to $25 (£16) this year, attendance is expected to number a respectable 400,000 before the end of the fair in November.
Wall Street Journal article
2. Yale turned a blind eye to ownership of Van Gogh bought from the Soviet Union:
A descendant...
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7:20pm
Charles Saumarez Smith opened the press preview on the forthcoming Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, by announcing that despite the economic climate and its enormous impact on gallery budgets, and in contrast to his experience of state-funded galleries, he had enjoyed the relative freedom of raising funds for a private institution.
Necessary funds for the show, he added, which opens at the end of September, ‘were very nearly there’. Saumarez Smith was also keen to point out that this was a landmark show for the Royal Academy as it will be the first time that a...
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Recent and upcoming shows explore J.G. Ballard's influence on the visual arts, and an exhibition on art and magic proves unsettling.
A new report highlights the threats to one of Europe's least-known legacies of historic buidlings: the country houses of Silesia.
A visit to a great art fair such as TEFAF is a reminder of some fundamental but undervalued aspects of art history.
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