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Think of the most thankless jobs out there. Slaughterhouse cleaner. Involuntary drug tester. Russell Crowe's assistant. Here's one that's worse: curator of the Whitney Biennial. Every two years, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City attempts a survey of current trends among American artists across the U.S. and based abroad. Every two years, or just about, the whole thing gets terrible reviews...
...recoil from the market, and that it's so widespread across the U.S. that no survey show can ignore it. To accommodate this, for its first three weeks, the Biennial is spilling over to the Park Avenue Armory, a Victorian brick pile a few blocks from the museum that offers room after room of wood-paneled chambers with brass chandeliers and mounted moose heads. In other words, it's a party space. In one of the oaky rooms, the Los Angeles artist Eduardo Sarabia has opened a tequila bar. He made the blue-and-white-ceramic bar stand. He made...
Craigen Weston Bowen, deputy director of the Straus Center for Conservation at the Fogg Art Museum, died of cancer at her home in Lexington, Mass. earlier this month. She was 54. Bowen is remembered for the relentless energy that she brought to her passions for art conservation, gardening, and rock climbing. Bowen’s younger brother, Frederick W. Weston III, recounted spending the past Fourth of July with his sister at their family lake house in Maine, saying that as the rest of their family relaxed before the annual antique wooden boat parade, Bowen was busy planting a bush...
Last November, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) unveiled the newest addition to its collection: a marble statue of the goddess Eirene, which, at nine feet tall, towers above visitors. Created around 2000 years ago, "Eirene" is an awe-inspiring piece of Greek antiquity, which constitutes a point of great pride for the museum. But she won’t be there for patrons to admire for much longer: the statue is on loan from the Italian government, and will be reclaimed...
...timing of the "Eirene" loan corresponds with a broad set of investigations and lawsuits regarding looted art that has targeted some of America’s most renowned art institutions, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MFA, and the university art museums at Yale and Princeton...