The report says that 41% of visual arts audiences are aged between 16 and 34, whereas for other artforms this demographic comprises 13% of visitors. In contrast, 41% of museum audiences are over 65, according to the report. – Arts Professional
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Major Portions Of Paris’s Pompidou Center Closed For Renovation
“The museum said Tuesday that the ‘caterpillar’ escalator as well as the sloping stone plaza in front of the iconic structure were closed to the public Tuesday for work expected to last until September 2020. As a result, the centre’s three million annual visitors will have to use an entrance around back.” – Yahoo! (AFP)
“Context Collapse” Theatens The Art World
“Content collapse” and “narrative deficiency” are phenomena that characterize social media, where users have multiple distinct communities—friends, family members, colleagues—collated into a single audience. The differences between traditional face-to-face relationship-based interaction and the potentially infinite audience of social media—or, we might logically extrapolate, businesses that scale in a parallel manner, such as big art fairs—is an issue that these industries are beginning to face. – artnet
Share The Wealth: A New Model For Art Fairs?
For the first four editions of Future Fair, all 36 of the “Founding Galleries” who participate in the first version will split 35 percent of the profit. That might be nothing the first time around, Mijares Fick admits, explaining that, as is often the case with new businesses, the first year’s goal is just to break even. After that, she and Rebeca Laliberte expect galleries to get a return of “three to four figures.” – artnet
In The Public Glare, Museums Think About Who Gets To Give Them Money
“In the case of working with particular individuals, it’s clear there is a line. We would not accept donations from high-level visible criminals, or organisations that are egregious and violate our own values or mission,” he says. “At the same time, we are fundamentally supported by and we operate on the basis of philanthropy. That’s the American model.” – The Art Newspaper
How Wealthy Collectors Now Collect Museums
“At the highest levels of art collecting, board memberships and other institutional affiliations are table stakes: it can be almost impossible to collect the most coveted art without them. In other words, increasingly we live not in a world where museums collect collectors, but rather in a world where collectors collect museums.” – The Art Newspaper
Louvre May Return Parthenon Frieze To Greece, At Least Temporarily
A proposal discussed by the French President Macron and Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis would see a “temporary exchange,” timed for the 2021 bicentennial celebration of Greek independence, of a 5th-century BC frieze removed from the Parthenon in the 1780s for a collection of ancient bronze artifacts. – The Art Newspaper
Banksy’s Famous Brexit Mural Is Painted Over
“The side of a building that had borne a famous painting of a worker chipping away one of the golden stars from the European Union’s flag — symbolizing Britain’s impending exit from the bloc — was covered in white paint Monday. Scaffolding had been erected over the weekend at the building in the southern British port city of Dover.” – Washington Post (AP)
Los Angeles’ LACMA Is Kind Of A Ghost Town Now
California is famous for its ghost towns, but you don’t expect to find one where L.A.’s major art museum once was. Or pay up to 25 bucks to see it. – Los Angeles Times
The Comic Books About Great Artists (A Good Idea?)
“There’s something inherently odd about using one artistic tradition to depict the life (to say nothing of reproducing the work) of an artist from a different tradition. And yet, not only are a growing number of cartoonists creating books about famous artists, but their approaches are dizzyingly varied. When is a comic book a fitting tribute to an icon?” – NPR