12:06pm
Wooden figure of Jesus Christ bought by Italian government for £2.5m is a
fake, not Michelangelo:
Tomaso Montanari, Professor of Art history at Naples University, has criticised the Italian government for spending £2.5 million on a wooden sculpture of Christ which they believe to be by Michelangelo. The Culture Ministry, which has been forced to cut its budget and jobs recently, bought the sculpture without a third party opinion, and critics argue that Michelangelo never used the style employed in the sculpture. Since its purchase late last year, the figure has toured Italy and been seen by 60,000...
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4:44pm
One of the most popular exhibitions of this year’s calendar has been Picasso: Challenging the Past (currently at the National Gallery, London), a monumental exhibition that seeks to highlight Picasso’s response throughout his career to the great painters of the past, both in theme and style.
The way in which this idea is explored is one of the talking points that have surrounded this somewhat controversial exhibition. The same group of 60 Picasso paintings travelled to London from the Grand Palais in Paris, where they were displayed next to full-size reproductions of the paintings to which Picasso responded. In...
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2:52pm
Reinstallation of LACMA wins Curator Award
The reinstallation of LACMA's permanent collection of modern art has earnt its curator, Stephanie Barron, recognition from the Association of Art Museum Curators' Awards. Other recipients were Anne Umlandm from the Museum of Modern Art, Norman Kleeblat at the Jewish Museum, and Charlotte Eyerman at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts appoints new head of decorative arts
MIA have announced the appointment of Eike D. Schmidt as the new ‘James Ford Bell Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture’ and head of the ‘Department of Decorative Arts,...
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6:09pm
David Hockney has criticised school inspectors for publishing a report that claims that schoolboys no longer enjoy painting and drawing classes at school. The findings, which were published recently in an Ofsted Report, suggest that modern equipment in the form of digital cameras and the latest software programmes cause more of a stir in today's classrooms.
Hockney has countered this claim by arguing that poor teaching is the reason why young boys are turned off by the arts. The artist explained that all children have a basic need to draw and believes that the Ofsted Report findings are on a par with arguing that schools shouldn't be bothered with teaching grammar.
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3:51pm
Last week's announcement of the Turner Prize shortlist appears to have been met with widespread approval in the art world. While last year's shortlist attracted the criticism from some of being too intellectual (the prize is designed to foster public appreciation and engagement with contemporary art), the exhibition went on to attract 92,000 visitors.
This year's four nominees are surrealist artist Enrico David – nominated for his solo exhibitions 'How Do You Love Dzzzzt Mammy?' at the Museum fur Gegenwarskunst, Basel, and 'Bulbous Marauder' at the Seattle Art Museum; Roger Hiorns – nominated for his Artangel commission 'Seizure' and his...
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A recent exhibition in Nottingham showcases contemporary artists' exploration of the Communist-era space race.
Cast aside by Modernists for much of the 20th century, Classicism
has a comeback of sorts, with an excellent new book reappraising
architecture partnerships and a recent exhibition at one of the very
institutions that so derided the style.
