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☆ Judge orders 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli to hand over copies of one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-26 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang Clan album copies by Friday, a judge has ordered. The order is a victory for an NFT collective that bought the original "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin." The collective sued Shkreli after saying he boasted of sending copies to "chicks" and receiving sexual favors. AdvertisementA federal judge in Brooklyn has ordered "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli to surrender all copies of his supposedly one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album by noon on Friday. The new preliminary order by Judge Pamela K. Chen, first reported in artnet, is the latest development in that lawsuit.

Persons: Bro, Martin Shkreli, Wu, Tang, Shkreli, —, bro, Pamela K, Chen Organizations: Service, PleasrDAO, Business Locations: Brooklyn, artnet

☆ In Whitney Biennial Artwork, a Message Reveals Itself: ‘Free Palestine’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Zachary Small | More About Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Officials at the museum, including the exhibition’s curators, said that they had not been aware of the message, which most viewers missed at first. They later said that they had not known about the message, which was added when the work was fabricated in the fall, but that the message would not have affected their decision to display the art. Annie Armstrong, a writer for the publication Artnet News, noted the “Free Palestine” message in an article about the exhibition yesterday. “The museum did not know of this subtle detail when the work was installed,” said Angela Montefinise, chief communications and content officer, who added that there were no plans to remove or change the artwork. And within the culture industry, there has been a wave of resignations, boycotts and firings that have come with addressing the war.

Persons: Annie Armstrong, ”, Angela Montefinise, Whitney Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Fact Check-Image shows Alvin sub in 1987 Titanic painting, not Titan wreckage
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The painting shows the Titanic wreckage on the sea floor, with debris scattered around the decaying vessel. According to the artist, the scene includes the Alvin submersible that explored the wreckage in 1986. Examples of the image shared online and described as showing the Titan submersible’s location can be seen (here) and (here). The Marschall painting can also be viewed on websites detailing art market information, including Mutual Art and Artnet (here), (here). The image shows a 1987 painting of the Titanic on the sea floor, not a 2023 photograph of Titan sub wreckage.

Persons: Ken Marschall, Ballard, Alvin, Read Organizations: Titan, Alvin, Oceanographic, Mutual Art, Reuters

☆ Klimt’s ‘last masterpiece’ poised to fetch $80 million at Sotheby’s auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Depicting an unidentified female subject, “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) was one of two paintings found at the Austrian artist’s studio upon his death in 1918, according to Sotheby’s auction house. Started in 1917, “Dame mit Fächer” is rendered in Klimt’s characteristically rich, expressive style. Sotheby's said it expects the painting the fetch "in the region of" $80 million when it goes under the hammer this month. Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” was meanwhile bought by US businessman Ronald Lauder for a reported $135 million in 2006. “Dame mit Fächer” is the star lot in Sotheby’s modern and contemporary art summer auction, which takes place on June 27.

Persons: Gustav Klimt, Fächer ”, Sotheby’s, Thomas Boyd Bowman, ”, “, —, De Agostini, Klimt, Helena Newman, Newman, Erwin Böhle, Rudolf Leopold, Sotheby's, Paul G, Allen, Dmitry Rybolovlev, Yves Bouvier, Adele Bloch, Bauer, Ronald Lauder, Oprah Winfrey, Alberto Giacometti, Edvard Munch Organizations: CNN, Austrian, De Agostini Editorial, “, Microsoft, Financial Times, Bloomberg, UBS, Art Locations: London, Klimt's Vienna, Viennese, Sotheby’s, Austrian, “ Birch, Covid

☆ In Battle of Basquiats, Valentino Gets $67 Million for Masterpiece ‘The Nile’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Kelly Crow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Fashion designer Valentino Garavani posed in his Fifth Avenue apartment in 2010 with the ‘Nile’ painting in the background. Photo: Jonathan Becker/Art: Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York/ Richard PrinceFashion designer Valentino Garavani sold a nearly 12-foot-wide Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that interrogates the history of slavery for $67 million at Christie’s on Monday. Mr. Garavani paid $5.2 million for 1983’s “El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)” in 2005, but the triptych came up for bid with a $45 million estimate, according to auction database Artnet . This time around, two dogged bidders chased it higher, with an anonymous telephone bidder winning it.

☆ In the Digital Age, Wedding Film Photography Has a Resurgence
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Emma Grillo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Taylor Dafoe and Alex Schulte’s relationship has always included film photography. It was the catalyst for their relationship: after leaving his rangefinder film camera at Ms. Schulte’s house during a party in 2015, Mr. Dafoe went back a few days later to pick it up. “That was part of the appeal, for sure,” Mr. Dafoe said. In recent years, more and more couples are seeking out photographers who can shoot film photos for their weddings. This means that photographers and couples can’t look at the photos until they’ve been developed days or weeks after the wedding.

☆ I tried a site where AI matched me with someone based on my 'hotness' rating. It's really messed up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Hot Chat 3000 is a dating website where AI determines your "hotness" using huge datasets. When a user enters Hot Chat 3000, they're asked to upload a picture of themselves as electronic music hums in the background. "Hot Chat 3000 very deliberately sets out to expose, visualize, exacerbate these biases," the site says. Which is to say that no one should take their Hot Chat 3000 "hotness" score seriously. There are no names in the world of Hot Chat 3000; instead, everyone is identified by their score.

☆ One of Harlan Crow's Hitler paintings from his collection of Nazi memorabilia is likely a fake, according to two top experts
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Jack Newsham | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But one of his supposed Hitler paintings appears to be fake, two experts told Insider. Harlan Crow's little-seen Hitler art collectionLittle is known about Crow's collection. Insider spoke with a person who attended a 2014 tour of Crow's library, led by Crow's personal librarian, who confirmed that he saw the Hitler watercolor in Crow's collection. The US Army has four Hitler paintings in storage, Renee Klish, a retired Army curator, told Insider. Panagopulos of Alexander Historical Auctions, who has often disagreed with Droog, also said it was doubtful that Crow's painting was genuine.

☆ A 2000-year-old Roman bust that was sold for $35 at a Goodwill in Texas is heading back to its 'rightful' home in Germany
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An ancient Roman marble bust found in Texas will soon return to its "rightful" home in Germany. Laura Young bought the bust in 2018 for just $35 at a Goodwill in Austin, Texas. Laura Young found the bust at a Goodwill in Austin, Texas, in 2018. While the sculpture is currently on display at the San Antonio museum, it will soon return to its "rightful home" when repatriated to Germany next month. Stephennie Mulder (@stephenniem) May 21, 2022"It's been really bittersweet," Young told CNN on Thursday.

☆ Leonardo DiCaprio was interviewed by the FBI over his relationship with a Malaysian businessman involved with the 1MDB scandal, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kim Kardashian were interviewed by the FBI in 2018 and 2019, Bloomberg reported. The stars had received gifts from Jho Low, who is accused of masterminding the 1MDB scandal. Earlier, DiCaprio had to return a number of gifts given to him by Low, including an Oscar won by Marlon Brando. On Thursday, Bloomberg revealed previously undisclosed documents which show the FBI interviewing DiCaprio in 2018 about his relationship with Low. Representatives for Kardashian and DiCaprio did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, sent outside normal working hours.

☆ How representation of Black artists in galleries, museums is changing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"There's a lot more support for Black artists that kind of came out of George Floyd's murder and institutions realizing that they need to do more," Peterson said. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesThe market for work by Black American artists grew by nearly 400% between 2008 and 2021, according to a recent report from art market website ArtNet. Acquisitions of work by Black American artists peaked in 2015, two years after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. "My impression is there are vastly increased number of solo shows and group shows dedicated to Black artists in London, in Paris, in New York, across the United States," Elliott said. Works from established artists like Kerry James Marshall that depict Black figures are influencing the work of new artists and creating a lineage, Elliott noted.

☆ 50,000-year-old tools thought to have been made by the first Americans were actually crafted by monkeys to break open nuts, study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Researchers say that capuchin monkeys made ancient stone tools discovered in Brazil. Capuchin monkeys are capable of making a large variety of stone tools, research has shown. The findings showed that capuchin monkeys in northeastern Brazil are capable of making and using a large variety of stone tools. The researchers compared the tools found at Pedra Furada to those that capuchin monkeys make today. "The result is that the rocks used often break, generating rock fragments that are very similar to those produced by humans when carving stone tools," said Agustín M. Agnolín, per CONICET'S news release.

☆ Archaeologists have discovered full-color portraits of Egyptian mummies in ancient Philadelphia
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Archaeologists have uncovered the first full-color portraits of mummies in over a century. Researchers found the two full portraits of Egyptian mummies and fragments of others at the Gerza excavation site in Fayoum, Egypt, making these artworks the first of their kind to be discovered in over 115 years. English archaeologist Flinders Petrie was the last to find similar artwork when he discovered 146 mummy portraits at a Roman cemetery in 1911, Artnet News reports. The collection of paintings, known as the Fayoum portraits, portrays some of the wealthiest people that existed in these ancient communities. A statement from the Egyptian government explains that pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 B.C.)

☆ Climate protesters are chucking food at priceless paintings. A social movements expert says these tactics only convince people who already think climate change is serious.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A string of climate protests this year involved throwing food at famous pieces of art. But disruptive tactics won't sway those who aren't already concerned about climate change, a sociologist told Insider. "What I've found is that these tactics are likely to be viewed as positive by people who already believe that climate change is a serious social problem," Dylan Bugden, a sociologist at Washington State University who studies global climate change protests, told Insider. In Bugden's research, he's found disruptive and confrontational tactics aren't effective on people who are not already concerned about climate change. Tomato soup on van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'The van Gogh painting was unharmed due to protective glass, in October.

☆ Trove of ancient gold rings buried with 'extremely rich' woman who lived 6,500 years ago discovered in Romania
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-28 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Archaeologists have discovered a trove of Copper Age gold rings, beads, and a bracelet in Romania. Museum director Gabriel Moisa said that the jewelry was laid to rest alongside a burial of an "extremely rich" woman. 169 ultra-rare gold rings were designed to be worn in a women's hair, archaeologists say. The trove in a Copper Age grave includes 169 gold rings, 800 bone beads, and an ornate spiraled copper bracelet discovered by a team from the Ţării Crişurilor museum in Oradea, Romania. The jewelry was laid to rest alongside a burial of an "extremely rich" woman, museum director Gabriel Moisa said, Romanian outlet Agerpres reports.

☆ «Пикассо был абьюзером». В музее Пикассо прошла акция протеста
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-10 | by ( ) ru.diez.md time to read: +1 min

В конце мая профессорка Мария Ллопис вместе со студентками провела акцию протеста в музее Пабло Пикассо: они пришли на выставку в футболках с надписями «Пикассо был абьюзером» и «Пикассо — тень Доры Маар» (у художницы Доры Маар были отношения с Пикассо на рубеже 30-х и 40-х годов, она, как полагают, пережила насилие со стороны художника), пишет wonderzine. Мария Ллопис организовала акцию в рамках своего курса об искусстве и феминизме в Escola Massana. Она рассказала о задумке изданию Artnet: Ллопис провела акцию, «чтобы высказаться. Директор музея Пикассо Эммануэль Гигон поддержал преподавательницу и её студенток: «Это здорово, что люди выражают себя в музее. Представитель музея также сказал Artnet, что сейчас там готовится паблик-ток, чтобы обсудить Пикассо с «гендерной точки зрения».

Persons: Мария Ллопис, Пабло Пикассо, Дора Маар, Пикассо, Ллопис, Эммануэль Гигон Organizations: Escola Massana Locations: wonderzine

☆ В итальянском монастыре обнаружен самый древний в мире меч
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-30 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Два года ушли на исследование возраста клинка из монастыря Сан-Лазарро-Дельи-Армени. Студентка венецианского университета впервые посетила музей монастыря Сан-Лазарро-Дельи-Армени в поисках материала для кандидатской работы по археологии. Во время осмотра коллекции ее заинтересовал древний меч, подписанный временем средневековья. За это время Виттория узнала часть истории этого меча. В конце XIX века этот древний клинок подарили армянскому священнику, ученому и поэту Гевонду Алишану.

Persons: Виттория Далль Армеллина, Виттория, Гевонд Алишан Locations: СанЛазарроДельиАрмени, Черное море

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