The latest public monument to draw a bitter outcry is a sexually suggestive statue of a female field worker in Italy, which was accused of promoting sexism by politicians this week. The bronze statue, which depicts a young woman wearing a transparent, body-hugging dress, was presented on Saturday in a ceremony attended by a mostly male audience, including former prime minister Giuseppe Conte, in ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, September 14. NEED-TO-READ A Look at Jasper Johns’s Latest Work – There aren’t many artists alive whose every new work is regarded as a newsworthy event—but Jasper Johns is one of them. Ahead of ...
A rendering of what the facade of the front of the Aspen Art Museum will look like next summer.Courtesy image The entire façade of the front side of the Aspen Art Museum will be covered next summer with an inflated vinyl and nylon wrap and LED lights to illuminate the imagery of a mountain landscape.Aspen City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the museum’s application ...
One of Italy’s most wanted fugitives, an alleged kingpin in the Naples-based Camorra organized crime syndicate, has been arrested in Dubai under suspicion of buying black market van Gogh paintings. Raffaele Imperiale, thought by police to be a major organized crime figure, was arrested on August 4 and is being held in the United Arab Emirates awaiting extradition, Italy’s state police and financial crimes ...
Even after he found fame as one of the most important 20th-century British artists, Leon Kossoff never got over the distress of losing 14 paintings and six drawings in an unsolved theft.A much-loved portrait of his mother was among pictures that were stolen from a lorry transporting them from London to Italy in 1972, with some speculating that the mafia was responsible. Until his ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, July 20. NEED-TO-READ Pope.L Reflects on a Changing Art World – Ahead of his first U.K. retrospective in recent memory at the commercial gallery Modern Art in London, American artist Pope.L reflects on the complexities ...
Italian authorities have recovered nearly 800 archeological finds from a Belgian collector worth a combined €11 million (around $13 million). The oldest pieces in the collection date as far back as the sixth century B.C.E. The trove of artifacts includes painted vases, amphorae, black glazed ceramics, and several terra-cotta figurines. They were illegally excavated in Puglia, a region in southern Italy, according to Carabinieri’s ...
Italian artist Salvatore Garau just sold his invisible sculpture for over $18,000, reports ArtNet. The sculpture is nothing more than empty space. The artwork titled “lo Sono” — “I Am” in Italian — is a 5-by-5 foot square free of obstructions, according to ArtNet.“You don’t see it but it exists; it is made of air and spirit,” according to Garau via The New York ...
From the department of “They sold that for how much?!” comes today’s story, about an Italian artist who, for the cool price of €15,000 ($18,300), recently auctioned an artwork that is… well, nothing. Last month, the 67-year-old artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial sculpture”—which is to say that it doesn’t exist. To be fair, the artist might disagree on conceptual grounds. For Garau, the artwork, ...
“Thou shalt not steal — but the Vatican did anyway,” reports MSN. Italian street artist Alessia Babrow filed a lawsuit last month against the Vatican, home of the Catholic Church, for merchandising her artwork without permission, according to the AP. In 2019, Babrow pasted a stylized image of Christ on a wall near the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II bridge, the central bridge for entering ...
