Friday, 16th January 2009
3:05pm
The Kimbell Art Museum, Texas, has announced Eric McCauley Lee, former director of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, as its new director. Lee takes over from previous director, Timothy Potts, who resigned in 2007 to take up the post of director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
The board of the Kimbell Art Foundation formally announced the unanimous decision today, following 18 months of interviewing candidates from around the world. Eric Lee is reported as saying, 'The Kimbell has always been a dream job of mine. I am absolutely elated,' adding that his new job is: 'protecting the...
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6:35pm
Iraq Restorations
The World Monument Fund has launched a project with Iraq that aims to preserve the ancient city of Babylon (pictured above). The site is home to the ancient gardens built by King Nebuchadnezzar II, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The WMF are a New York based non-profit organisation that seeks to protect sites of cultural and architectural importance around the world. The Babylon site, located 55 miles south of Baghdad on the east bank of the Euphrates, will be developed in collaboration with Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, in order...
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Friday, 19th December 2008
7:51pm
Shepherd Takes Gold.
A small collection of Winnie the Pooh drawings from Winnie the Pooh, children’s
Books fetched a whooping £1.26 million, at a recent auction in Sotheby’s. This is a record, for the artist EH Shepherd. The illustration ‘He went on tracking, and piglet… ran after him’, which is one of Shepherd’s most famous illustrations, reached £115,250 another well known drawing, ‘Bump, bump, bump – going up the stairs’, sold for £92,250. Out of the 44 lots in the sale, all but two sold.
Blake at the Tate
The Tate Britain has decided that in...
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Thursday, 11th December 2008
10:59am
Arguments that Britain badly needs a system of tax incentives to encourage collectors to give works of art to public collections will be strengthened by the publication this week of the report of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) allows estates to settle death duties in whole or in part by offering works of art to the nation. The report reveals that in 2007-08 tax liability to the tune of £10.3m was settled in this way, meaning that the country’s collections received works whose total value amounts to £15.2m.
The range and depth of the art...
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Friday, 5th December 2008
5:54pm
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
In a recent ‘Times’ opinion piece Eli Broad (pictured above) announced that he would make a voluntary donation of $30m to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The money, if MOCA decide to accept it, has been offered as a no-strings-attached payment which Broad believes will keep the organisation ‘a vibrant, independent Museum of the city’. Part of Broad's proposal includes a $25 million donation to replenish the endowment that has gradually diminished over the last eight years and a $5 donation to cover the museum's future operating costs. Broad is known...
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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.
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