Tag: 03.16.00

The Whitney Museum row over a controversial piece of art in the upcoming Whitney Biennial has split the founding family between those who are offended and want to withdraw their support and those who want to see the museum be adventurous. Any idea who’ll prevail? – Salon

A 1910 Marc Chagall painting was discovered in Tel Aviv when a woman went to sell what she thought were her father’s worthless art pieces. The painting, which has been valued at $50,000, will be auctioned over the internet. – The Jerusalem Report

Creating a digital museum doesn’t just mean throwing up a bunch of images on the web – every museum does that these days. A Japanese museum has undertaken a much more ambitious sort of digital initiative – one in which its objects are digitized so visitors can “handle” them in all their dimensions. – Daily Yomiuri (Japan)

“There has long been a brisk trade in the kitsch symbols of communism – the hammers and sickles, portraits of Marx and Engels, red stars and Warhol’s Mao. The sales of this imagery, mostly among young people for whom it has little or no real historical meaning, soared after the Berlin wall crumbled more than 10 years ago, according to collectors. These days, however, there is also a burgeoning interest in the Socialist Realist art created under communism by good and occasionally great painters who were reduced to simplistic compositions-glorified workers with chiseled faces and bulging arms, happy comrades astride tractors, bricklayers building the concrete Stalinist fortresses that now mar the cityscapes of Central Europe.” – Chicago Tribune