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Controversy: Cape Town Museum Director Takes Down The Gainesboroughs, Puts Up African Art

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"For the first time I thought it wasn't really appropriate because it's a kind of colonial English collection and there are many of those around the world in the English colonies. It wasn't really showcasing any aspect of South African culture that ...

We Need To Change The Way We Build University Campus Buildings

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"Over the last decade, many universities have invested in eye-catching architecture aimed, he says, at attracting investors and business, as a way of transforming places that should be free-thinking and outside the immediate commercial equation into ...

Ancien Régime Angry Over Murakami Show at Versailles

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"Cultural traditionalists in France are upset that the famed chateau will play host to an installation of Murakami's work ... Known for his brightly colored pop creations that pull from the worlds of anime, manga and cartoons, Murakami is a decidedly ...

Mexico City's Eli Broad? Carlos Slim to Open Museum

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"Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, will soon open a new museum in one of the poshest areas of his native Mexico to house his collection of artwork by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, considered the biggest outside France."...

Maybe Fisk Univ. Really Has No Choice But to Sell Its Art

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"The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus ... has been mortgaged. Fisk President Hazel R. O'Leary says that the only asset of real value ...

California Passes Stolen Art Bill

ArtsJournal : Visual Arts [US] (17 hours)
"California lawmakers gave final approval Monday night to a bill that would extend the time in which people can sue museums to try to recover what they believe are stolen works of art."...

How Our Sense Of Memorials Is Changing

ArtsJournal : Visual Arts [US] (17 hours)
"We've stopped putting great men on pedestals and started commemorating their victims. In the process we are are losing a sense that human history involved leadership and struggle and, yes, sacrifice."...

The Problem With Architecture Exhibitions

ArtsJournal : Visual Arts [US] (17 hours)
" fixate on trying to represent buildings that are missing. Photographs, drawings and pretentious wall texts only highlight the fact that yours is a second-hand experience." But this year's Venice Architecture Biennale "is much more about what should ...

Titian Damaged In Venice Fire

ArtsJournal : Visual Arts [US] (1 day)
"The paintings, displayed at the 17th century Basilica Santa Maria della Salute, sustained damage after a fire broke out Sunday night at the adjoining seminary."...

Wonder How Museums Work? Tweet Away!

ArtsJournal : Visual Arts [US] (1 day)
On 1 September, your questions could be answered if you take part in the first ever 'Ask a Curator Day' on social networking platform Twitter. Over 300 curators from museums around the world will be available for one on one Q+A's, or you can post a ...
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