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☆ Brian Wilson, Beach Boys co-founder, to be placed under conservatorship, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Brian Wilson, musician and founding member of the hit ’60s rock band The Beach Boys, has been placed under a conservatorship following a Los Angeles court ruling on Thursday. According to the Wilson family, the decision to place Brian under a conservatorship came following the death of his wife, Melinda Wilson, in January. She encouraged me to make the music that was closest to my heart.”Wilson, pictured far left, was a founding member of The Beach Boys. He decided to quit touring with his band after a nervous breakdown in 1964, though he continued to write, arrange, produce and record The Beach Boys’ music. Wilson and The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

Persons: Brian Wilson, Gus T, Wilson, ”, Brian, Melinda Wilson, Melinda, ” Wilson, Michael Ochs, “, LeeAnn, Jean Sievers, Gloria Ramos Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles Superior Court, The, Boys, Michael Ochs Archives, Hall of Fame Locations: Los Angeles

☆ Britney Spears and Her Father Settle Legal Dispute Over Conservatorship
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Liz Day | Lauren Herstik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than two years after a judge ended the conservatorship that had given James P. Spears control of his pop star daughter’s life, Britney Spears and her father have settled their outstanding legal dispute over the payment of his legal fees and his management of her finances. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed in court filings made by both parties in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday. But the two sides had been at odds over the size of Mr. Spears’s legal fees and questions about his oversight of her money as conservator. Ms. Spears’s 13-year-long conservatorship, which began in 2008 after a series of public breakdowns, was terminated in 2021. Mr. Rosengart argued that, in particular, his client should not have to pay her father’s current legal bills, asserting in court papers that Mr. Spears had paid himself $6 million, improperly surveilled his daughter and engaged in financial misconduct during his tenure.

Persons: James P, Britney Spears, Spears’s, Mathew S, Rosengart, Spears Organizations: Los Angeles Superior Court Locations: Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The management team of Brian Wilson has petitioned to place him in a conservatorship because of his mental decline and the recent death of his wife, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, who managed his daily life. The petition asks a judge to appoint two longtime Wilson representatives — publicist Jean Sievers and manager LeeAnn Hard — to be conservators overseeing his personal and medical decisions because “Mr. Wilson is unable to properly provide for his own personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter.”The two women “have had a close relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson for many years, and Mr. Wilson trusts them,” according to the filing. Ledbetter — whose husband credited her with stabilizing his famously troubled life — had managed his daily needs before her death on Jan. 30, the petition says. The Wilson petition seeks only a conservatorship of his person, saying he does not need a conservator of the estate because his assets are in a trust, with Hard as a trustee.

Persons: Brian Wilson, Melinda Ledbetter Wilson, Wilson, Jean Sievers, LeeAnn, Mr, “, Ledbetter —, —, Gloria Ramos, Brian, “ Brian, Britney Spears, Ledbetter, Dr, Eugene Landy, Landy, mistreating Wilson, ” Wilson, “ Melinda Organizations: ANGELES, Beach Boys, Los Angeles Superior Court Locations: Los Angeles, California

☆ Conservators restore 17th-century portrait of noblewoman to remove cosmetic touch-ups
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

English Heritage, an organization that manages more than 400 historic buildings, monuments and sites in England, has discovered that a portrait dating back almost four centuries was later altered to “improve” the subject’s appearance. The portrait before the added changes were removed by the conservation team English HeritageConservators have now revealed the true face of noblewoman Diana Cecil, after spending hours removing changes to her features. Cecil (1596–1654), was the great-granddaughter of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, one of Elizabeth I’s closest friends and advisers. The restored version of the portrait will go on display in London from November 30. Christopher Ison//English HeritageAccording to English Heritage, Cecil was “one of the great beauties of the age” but the full-length painting was found to have undergone some cosmetic alterations since it was painted in the 17th century.

Persons: London CNN —, Diana Cecil, Cecil, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s, Christopher Ison, “, Conservators, Cornelius Johnson, Alice Tate, sweeten, Diana, Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin Organizations: London CNN, English Heritage, Kenwood House, Heritage, Harte Locations: England, London

☆ Michael Oher: ‘The new film ‘Blindsided’ challenges the blockbuster’s take on the life of ex-NFL star
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A new CNN documentary releasing on Thursday sheds light on the strained, complex relationship between former NFL player Michael Oher and the Tuohy family. This narrative is captured in “The Blind Side,” which followed a 2006 book of the same name by Michael Lewis. Oher sits on the beach during an NFL game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Buffalo Bills in 2010. A Tennessee judge terminated the Tuohy’s conservatorship over Oher in September. Tuohy sold his company for $220 million.” Oher declined to be interviewed for the CNN documentary, citing pending litigation, while the Tuohy family also declined an interview.

Persons: Michael Oher’s, “, Max, Michael Oher, Sean, Leigh Anne Tuohy, I’m, ” Quinterio Franklin, Oher, ” Anthony Burrow, ” Burrow, ”, Michael Lewis, Sandra Bullock, Oscar, SJ, ” Quinton Aaron, ” Oher, don’t, Jim Rome, Nick Wass, Joseph Crone, Oher’s Briarcrest, Nate Hale, Oher’s, ” Hale, Tuohy Organizations: CNN, NFL, Hollywood, Bowl, Briarcrest Christian School, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers Locations: Memphis , Tennessee, Eads, Memphis, “, Hollywood, Tennessee, Oher

☆ Just Stop Oil protesters attack Velázquez’s ‘Rokeby Venus’ in London’s National Gallery
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Two climate activists from the group Just Stop Oil have been arrested after smashing the glass protecting a famous painting in London’s National Gallery on Monday, the city’s Metropolitan Police said. A video posted to Just Stop Oil’s account on X shows the activists wearing white Just Stop Oil t-shirts and breaking the glass protecting Diego Velázquez’s 17th-century “Rokeby Venus” with orange safety hammers. The National Gallery said on X that the room was cleared of visitors and police were called after the demonstration took place just before 11 a.m. local time on Monday. The Metropolitan Police tweeted: “Two Just Stop Oil activists have been arrested for criminal damage. The glass protecting a painting at the National Gallery has been vandalized.”A number of Just Stop Oil activists also gathered in Whitehall, the London thoroughfare that runs from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament, on Monday.

Persons: Diego Velázquez’s, Rokeby Venus, Mary Raleigh Richardson, “, conservators, Vincent van, Leonardo da Vinci’s, ”, Johannes Vermeer’s Organizations: London CNN, city’s Metropolitan Police, Metropolitan Police, Stop, golf’s, Wimbledon Locations: Whitehall, London, “ Whitehall, England

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☆ What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Evan Moffitt | Daniel Terna | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Many of CTL’s clients are museums looking to restore works by a single artist, the video art pioneer Nam June Paik, who died in 2006. Known for his sculptures and room-size installations of flickering CRT monitors, Paik began visiting the shop in the 1970s on breaks from his studio in nearby SoHo. Paik’s work was on view, along with video works from dozens of other artists, in “Signals,” a sweeping exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York earlier this year. Many pieces in the show, such as those in the video collectives section, played on boxy Sony CRT monitors, long favored by artists for their austere, stackable design, and which stopped being produced in the 2000s. “I had to tell security, ‘Pretend these are Donald Judds,’ because they’re basically priceless at this point.”

Persons: Tien Lui, Lui, Nam, Paik, ”, Stuart Comer, “, Donald Judds Organizations: CTL Electronics, Museum of Modern Art, eBay, MoMA Locations: Lower Manhattan, Taiwan, SoHo, New York

☆ Parthenon sculptures were once elegantly painted with ‘Egyptian blue’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were colorful, painted with floral patterns and other elaborate designs. Researchers found microscopic traces of paint by using infrared light that is absorbed by the blue paint and appears on camera as a glowing white (right). By illuminating the sculptures with the red light, a pigment known as “Egyptian blue” absorbs the light and appears on camera as a glowing white. “Egyptian blue” was a popular pigment of its time that was made using calcium, copper and silicon, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. Verri said he hopes that further imaging will soon be developed to find other colors present on the sculptures.

Persons: Giovanni Verri, ” Verri, “ It’s, Lord Elgin, Verri, Dione, Aphrodite, Kekrops, Demeter, Persephone, Dione ,, ”, Michael Cosmopoulos, Louis, William Wootton, conservators Organizations: CNN, British, —, King’s College London, Art Institute of Chicago, British Museum, Royal Society of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Acropolis Museum Locations: Greece, Athens, Ottoman Empire, Verri

☆ Why Miró’s Yellows Have Lost Their Brilliance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Katherine Kornei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

From Van Gogh’s sunflowers to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” there’s no shortage of seminal artwork that was made with a striking hue known as cadmium yellow. But that riot of color that artists squeezed from their paint tubes isn’t necessarily what museum goers see today: cadmium yellow’s brilliance often diminishes over time, as the paint fades and turns chalky. A team of art conservators and scientists recently analyzed bits of degraded cadmium yellow paint taken from pieces painted by the Spanish artist Joan Miró in the 1970s. Cadmium yellow paint is an amalgam primarily of cadmium and sulfur. Miró described the color as “splendid.” Tubes of cadmium yellow paint, including Cadmium Yellow Lemon No.1 produced by the Parisian manufacturer Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, litter Miró’s two studios in Mallorca, Spain.

Persons: Edvard Munch’s “, ”, Joan Miró, Miró, Lucien Lefebvre, Mar Gómez Lobón, Pilar, Joan Miro Organizations: Heritage, Mar Locations: Spanish, Mallorca, Spain

☆ Tuohy family denies Michael Oher accusations, says NFL player was paid for 'The Blind Side' story, court documents say
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Jennifer Henderson Eric Levenson | Jennifer Henderson | Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Oher’s petition says soon after he moved in with the family in 2004, the Tuohys gave him legal papers he thought were necessary for the adoption. Conservatorship was the tool chosen to accomplish this goal.”“There was never an intent to adopt him,” the Tuohy’s response states. The Tuohys say it is “demonstrably false” that Oher only found out in February 2023 that he wasn’t adopted. The Tuohys say all the money received from “The Blind Side” movie has been split equally between Sean and Leigh Anne, their two children and Oher – 20% each. The Tuohys said Oher’s share was paid to them, they paid the taxes for a period of time but wrote Oher a check for his full 20% share.

Persons: Sean, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Michael Oher, Oher, “, ”, Oher’s, Conservatorship, wasn’t, Tuohys, Michael Lewis, Leigh Anne, Don Barrett, Mike, ” Barrett Organizations: CNN, NFL, football “, NCAA, Ole Miss, Mike’s Locations: Tennessee, Oher

Lawyers representing the couple also said the Tuohys would enter into a consent order to end the conservatorship. But Oher’s conservatorship was approved “despite the fact that he was over 18 years old and had no diagnosed physical or psychological disabilities,” his petition said. The Tuoys' filing said Oher referred to them as “mom” and dad," and they occasionally referred to Oher as a son. Agents negotiated a small advance for the Tuohys from the production company for “The Blind Side,” based on a book written by Sean Tuohy’s friend Michael Lewis, the couple’s lawyers have said. The attorneys said they estimated each of the Tuohys and Oher received $100,000 apiece, and the couple paid taxes on Oher’s portion for him.

Persons: Michael Oher, Sean, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Oher, Sandra Bullock, Oscar, Oher’s conservatorship, ”, ” “, Tuohys, Sean Tuohy, ” Ole Miss, Ole, Sean Tuohy’s, Michael Lewis, “ Organizations: NFL, Oher, NCAA, University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, Agents, Baltimore Ravens, Tennessee Titans Locations: MEMPHIS, Tenn, Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi, Carolina

☆ Michael Oher: 'The Blind Side' star's long effort to correct the record
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —In his 2011 memoir, Michael Oher wrote that he had a special skill for forgetting his difficult past. Sean Tuohy told the Daily Memphian that his family was devastated. In 2003, he began to stay more often with the Tuohy family, whose daughter Collins also attended Briarcrest. Another contract from April 2007 exists that was “purportedly signed by Michael Oher” in which Oher gives away his name, likeness, voice, etc. “It’s hard because you have to defend yourself, but whatever he wants, we’ll do,” Sean Tuohy said, according to the Daily Memphian.

Persons: CNN —, Michael Oher, “, ”, Oher, White, Sean, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Steve Farese, Sean Tuohy, Michael, Don Yaeger, “ ‘, I’d, Ole Miss Michael Oher, Ole, Matthew Sharpe, ” Oher, Michael Lewis, Lewis, Mike, Collins, Tuohy, David Bergman, Sandra Bullock, Oscar, Lily Collins, Tim McGraw, Jae, Quinton Aaron, Warner, Larry French, “ Michael, Michael Oher’s, Oher “, Michael Oher ”, ” Tuohy, “ We’re, he’d, ‘, You’ve, It’s, Sean Tuohy Jr, ’ ”, Tiffany Roy, Kobi, Kierstin, Jim Rome, that’s, ’ Organizations: CNN, ”, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Briarcrest Christian School, University of Mississippi, Baltimore Ravens, AP, Academy, Warner Bros, Baltimore, Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers, NFL, Foundation, Creative Artists Agency, Daily, Barstool Radio, ’ ” CNN Locations: Memphis, Tennessee, Oxford , Mississippi, Baltimore

☆ Michael Oher, depicted in ‘The Blind Side,’ alleges he was never adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, but signed into a conservatorship
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Jennifer Henderson Eric Levenson | Jennifer Henderson | Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A lawyer for Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, Steve Farese, said they have no comment but will be issuing a statement Tuesday. During the summer after his junior year, Oher started staying with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy occasionally. Instead, the papers appointed Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy his conservators. Another contract from April 2007 exists that was “purportedly signed by Michael Oher” in which Oher gives away his name, likeness, voice, etc. Sandra Bullock won best actress for her performance of Leigh Anne Tuohy in the 2010 82nd annual Academy Awards.

Persons: CNN —, Michael Oher, ”, Sean, Leigh Anne Tuohy’s conservatorship, Oher, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Steve Farese, Sean Tuohy, “, Michael, ” Sean Tuohy, Oher’s, Michael J, ” Oher, Michael ”, Tuohy, Dad ”, “ Michael, Michael Oher’s, Oher “, Michael Oher ”, Conservators, Michael Lewis, ” Tuohy, Lewis, “ We’re, he’d, ‘, You’ve, It’s, Sandra Bullock Organizations: CNN, NFL, Juvenile, Creative Artists Agency, ESPN, University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, Baltimore Ravens, AP, Baltimore, Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers Locations: Tennessee, Memphis, alma mater, Baltimore

☆ ‘The Blind Side' subject Michael Oher says adoption by Tuohy family was a lie, he was cut out of money from movie
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Doha Madani | Diana Dasrath | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Michael Oher #73 of the Carolina Panthers watches play against the Arizona Cardinals during the NFC Championship Game at Bank Of America Stadium on January 24, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. "The lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher," the petition to terminate the conservatorship in Shelby County Court in Tennessee said. The story of Oher and the Tuohy family became the subject of an Oscar-winning film, "The Blind Side," starring actor Sandra Bullock in the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy. According to the petition, Oher does not recall signing the agreement for the rights to his life story. In addition to termination, Oher's petition requests the court issue an injunction barring the Tuohys from using his name and likeness.

Persons: Michael Oher, —, Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, Sandra Bullock, Leigh Anne Tuohy, Michael Lewis, Leigh Anne, Oher, Michael, Oher's, Tuohys Organizations: Carolina Panthers, Arizona Cardinals, NFC, Bank Of America, NFL, Shelby County Court, Century Fox, Briarcrest Christian School, NBC News, Creative Artists Agency Locations: Charlotte , North Carolina, Shelby County, Tennessee

According to Drew, industry practice now involves detailed notes of the materials and techniques used to restore a piece. The hope is that these notes will stay with the painting into its new life for years to come. Sometimes it is a faulty repair, like in the painting Drew is working on, or sometimes the material simply ages poorly. "[People] would use materials that would change differently from the original materials because they weren't thinking about reversibility, they could be quite difficult to remove," Khandekar said. "Now, we want to use things that stay soluble that can be easily taken off without damaging or changing the original material."

Persons: Drew, conservators, Khandekar

☆ King Charles Doesn’t Have as Many Swans as He Used to
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Claire Moses | More About Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The counters on the River Thames recorded 94 cygnets, as young swans are called, compared to 155 last year. Mr. Barber said he didn’t expect this year’s count to be quite as low as it was, and that the numbers were the most disappointing in years, Mr. Barber said. He added that 2009 was a worse year, when the uppers counted 84 young swans. The count was 166 cygnets in 2021 and 147 cygnets in 2019, he added. But there was also good news: Even though the number of cygnets was low, they were all in excellent health, Mr. Barber said.

Persons: That’s, Barber Locations: United Kingdom, England

☆ A Victorian Dinosaur Park Finds Its Way in the 21st Century
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Claire Moses | More About Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The word dinosaur is only about a decade old. Now imagine yourself as a resident of Victorian London, walking into Crystal Palace Park in the southeastern part of the city. There you encounter dozens of three-dimensional dinosaurs and ancient mammals you could have never imagined, made of clay, brick and other available building materials. Except you don’t have to imagine too hard, because those statues are still there, some 170 years later. They’re a little worse for wear and are no longer considered scientifically accurate.

Persons: David Attenborough Organizations: Crystal Locations: Victorian London, They’re

CNN —Construction workers have unearthed a white marble head in the historic center of Rome, the city’s mayor has revealed on social media. It said that the head was found on the eastern side of the area currently being worked on. “The newly found head, of elegant craftsmanship, sculpted in Greek marble, probably belongs to a statue of a female divinity, perhaps Aphrodite, of natural dimensions. He explained that the head was unearthed, intact, in the foundation of a late antique wall. The head was found to be in the foundations of this wall.

Persons: Roberto Gualtieri, Roma, Piazza Augusto Imperatore, ” Gualtieri, Augustus, Aphrodite, ”, Claudio Parisi Presicce, Parisi Presicce, conservators Organizations: CNN, Roma Press, Roma Locations: Rome, Piazza, ”

☆ Carrie Fisher’s white Princess Leia gown worn in ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The archetypal white gown that Carrie Fisher wore while playing Princess Leia in 1977’s “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” could be yours to own, if you have a couple million dollars to spare. The site also lists the dress as a “historically significant piece” that “is the only Princess Leia costume known to still exist from the original film.”Costume Designer John Mollo created the gown for Fisher’s legendary character Princess Leia. He went on to win an Oscar in 1978 for his work on “A New Hope.”Brandon Alinger, Chief Operating Officer at Propstore, in May putting on display the Princess Leia dress worn by Carrie Fisher in 1977's "Star Wars: A New Hope." Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesAccording to Barneby’s Magazine, Propstore Auction founder Stephen Lane said many collectors in the industry feared the garment was lost forever, and that collectors had been on the hunt for the gown for 40 years. Barneby’s estimated the final sum the garment might fetch to be even higher than Propstore, saying it could be set to sell for $2.5 million.

Persons: Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia, John Mollo, ” Brandon Alinger, Leia, Frederic J . Brown, Stephen Lane, “, ”, ” Lane, ” Fisher, Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, Han, Harrison Ford, Barneby’s Organizations: CNN, Barneby’s Locations: Propstore, AFP, “, London

☆ Environment activists smear red paint on Monet painting at Stockholm museum
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Sharon Braithwaite | Henrik Pettersson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The museum’s press office confirmed the incident to CNN. “In the afternoon of June 14 around 2:30 p.m. (8:30aET) an action was carried out at the National Museum in Stockholm. “The painting, which is encased in glass, is now being inspected by museum conservators to determine whether there is any damage,” the press office continued. Environment activists on June 14 smeared red paint and glued their hands to the protective glass on a Monet painting at Stockholm's National Museum, police and the museum said. Cultural heritage has great symbolic value, and it is unacceptable to attack or destroy it, for any purpose whatsoever,” Per Hedström, the National Museum’s acting director general, said.

Persons: ”, Claude Monet, Monet, conservators, Aterstall Organizations: CNN, National, “, National Museum, Nature, Environment, AFP, Getty Images Police, Stockholm Region police Locations: Giverny, Stockholm, AFP

☆ With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Back then it was a voguish noun, borrowed from French, that described the unconscious structure of an ideology or a text. Soon, though, like so many other efforts to think critically, “the problematic” got left behind in this century’s great shift from reading to scrolling. These days we encounter “problematic” exclusively as an adjective: an offhand judgment of moral disapproval, from a speaker who can’t be bothered by precision. A whole cast of professional art workers — conservators, designers, guards, technicians — has been roped in to produce “It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” a small exhibition opening Friday at the Brooklyn Museum. Like the noun-turned-adjective “problematic,” this new exhibition backs away from close looking for the affirmative comforts of social-justice-themed pop culture.

Persons: Hannah Gadsby, ”, —, It’s Pablo, “ Nanette, riffed, “, Picasso, Gadsby, “ Nanette ” Organizations: Brooklyn Museum, Netflix, TED Locations: Spanish

☆ Minnesota man indicted over theft of Judy Garland’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ slippers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Tina Burnside | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —US authorities have charged a man in connection with the theft of a pair of ruby red slippers worn by actress Judy Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 classic movie “The Wizard of Oz” nearly 20 years after they were stolen from a museum in Minnesota. Judy Garland is thought to have used at least seven different pairs of ruby slippers on the set of the 1939 classic. ShutterstockIn August 2005, authorities said a thief broke into the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota before smashing a glass display case and stealing the slippers. Regarded as among most recognizable items of memorabilia in American film history, the red slippers were, in the movie, gifted to Dorothy by Glinda the Good Witch. WCCOIt is not known how many pairs of ruby slippers Garland wore during filming, though the stolen shoes were among four remaining ones known to have survived.

CNN —Conservators at the Guggenheim Museum in New York have uncovered a small dog hidden beneath the surface of a Pablo Picasso painting. The image of a charming lapdog wearing a red bow was revealed by museum experts during a technical analysis of the Spanish artist’s painting “Le Moulin de la Galette” ahead of an exhibition of his early works. “Le Moulin de la Galette” depicts a lively scene at the titular venue — a famous Parisian dance hall that was painted by other artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Modifying paintings later became part of Picasso’s regular practice, Barten said, adding that “Le Moulin de la Galette” is now considered one of the earliest examples of this. “Le Moulin de la Galette” is the “centerpiece” of the Guggenheim’s show, said Barten, whose team of conservators also restored the artwork’s surface by removing decades of dirt and non-original varnish.

☆ Egypt opens 4,000-year-old tomb on Luxor's West Bank, oldest open to public
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/Handout via REUTERSCAIRO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Egypt has restored, documented and opened to tourists the Middle Kingdom tomb of Meru, the oldest site accessible to the public on Luxor's West Bank, home to some of its most spectacular Pharaonic monuments including the Valley of the Kings. Meru's rock-hewn tomb was restored by the Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw and Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "This is the only decorated room of the tomb, with an unusual decoration of painting on lime plaster," Yassin said. Meru's tomb had been known since at least the mid-19th century, according to the Polish Egyptian archaeological mission. Some of the Middle Kingdom's most prominent officials were buried at North Asasif, the statement said.

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