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The British Museum has appointed Nicholas Cullinan its new director. Currently director of London’s National Portrait Gallery, Cullinan now has the tough task of helping lead the institution while it continues to deal with the fallout from last year’s revelation that 2,000 items in the museum’s collection were stolen or damaged, or otherwise went missing.
Cullinan has been the National Portrait Gallery’s director since 2015. He oversaw a three-year, $53 million redevelopment of the institution that increased the museum’s public spaces by approximately 20 percent. He has also worked as a curato ..read more
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An untitled 1984 painting done by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat will sell at Sotheby’s in a contemporary art evening sale this May, making it one of the top lot of that marquee auction week.
This will be the picture’s first appearance at auction since it sold, also at Sotheby’s, back in 2010 for $2.65 million. Sotheby’s has placed its estimate this time at $18 million, meaning that if it sells for that price, it will have increased in value more than sixfold.
The work is part of a famed—and polarizing—grouping of paintings that the two art stars produced collaboratively between 198 ..read more
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NEW BRITISH MUSEUM LEADER. Nicholas Cullinan has been appointed the new director of the British Museum in London, following the resignation of former director Hartwig Fischer, who stepped down in the wake of a massive theft from the museum collection, which the institution alleges was committed by its former curator. Cullinan is currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery, and in his new role he will also have to address wide-ranging c ..read more
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17h ago
One of Los Angeles’s most high-profile museums is set to get a lot bigger just in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
On Wednesday, the Broad, a private museum founded by the late collector Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, announced plans to add 55,000 square feet of space, increasing the institution’s current footprint by around 70 percent. The Los Angeles Times reported that the expansion comes with a $100 million price tag—nearly as much as the original building itself cost to erect.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architecture firm in charge of the original building, will return to work on the ..read more
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18h ago
A group of parents recently filed a lawsuit for more than $1.5 million Canadian dollars ($1.16 million) against an art teacher and a school board after students found classroom artworks available for purchase on the instructor’s personal website.
The students attended Westwood Junior High School in the Quebec suburb of Saint-Lazare. The lawsuit, filed in Quebec Superior Court on March 22, seeks $1.58 million, or $155,000 for each of the 10 students, plus punitive damages, against former instructor Mario Perron and Lester B. Pearson School Board on the allegations of copyright infringement.
The ..read more
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18h ago
Kim Kardashian has been sued by the Donald Judd Foundation for claiming that a set of tables were created by the late, famed Minimalist.
The lawsuit, first reported by the New York Times, centers on a promotional video released by Kardashian in 2022 in which she tours the offices of her Skkn by Kim company, pointing out notable designs in the chic premises—including what she calls “Donald Judd tables.”
Kardashian praises Judd, whose work received a Museum of Modern Art retrospective in 2020, saying that the tables “totally blend in with the seats.”
But the nonprofit that manages his ..read more
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19h ago
The prop from one of the most memorable scenes in the 1997 film Titanic—in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack selflessly freezes to death in the North Atlantic while Kate Winslet’s character, Rose, lies on a door and thus lives to tell their tale—has sold at Heritage Auctions for a jamb-busting $718,750.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the door was the evening’s top lot, second only to the whip used by Indiana Jones in the series’ second installment The Temple of Doom, which sold for $525,000.
The Great Door Debate is among the most popular topics in modern cinematic history ..read more
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A Cambridge council has ordered the removal of a faceless statue of the late Prince Philip, according to the Guardian. Years after it was initially erected without permission, the statue will be removed from the site.
The 13-foot monument depicting the late queen’s husband in academic robes with an abstracted face stands outside of a Cambridge office block. It was previously described by Cambridge city council public art officer Nadine Black as “possibly the poorest quality work that has ever been submitted to the council”.
“It is not site-specific and is a work already purchased and has no re ..read more
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In Back to Mu Village‘s Fairy Big Lake (2023), a two-channel video installation by Chengdu-based artists Cao Minghao and Chen Jianjun, a disembodied voice speaks over a rippling blue-gray lake, describing a Tibetan herder ritual meant to resolve illnesses and disasters caused by human environmental degradation. The lake in question has already fallen prey to these interventions: it is shrinking due to climate change. In the second channel, the herders meticulously enact the ritual against a lush grassy plain.
“Its purpose,” the voice explains of the ritual, “is to establish a relationship betw ..read more
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“I want to be effective in this time in which people are so perplexed and in need of help.” Käthe Kollwitz wrote in her diary toward the end of 1922. She had just completed “War,” a series of seven woodcuts expressing what she saw as the deluded fervor and emotional scars of the recent European war. In 1920s Germany, that disaster, with its tragic consequences, was a subject on everyone’s mind.
Kollwitz saw suffering firsthand, not only in Berlin streets and demonstrations but in the medical practice of her husband, Karl. A sweeping exhibition of 120 of her prints, drawings, and sculptures ope ..read more