A UK program that allows people to pay inheritance taxes in art rather than cash has netted the government art “worth more than £21 million, including paintings by Constable and Turner.
Tag: 07.22.04
Vandals Attack More Outdoor Italian Art
“In the latest in a string of attacks on outdoor artworks in Italy, vandals have smashed a stone bee that adorns a centuries-old fountain by Renaissance master Gian Lorenzo Bernini in central Rome. The attack late on Monday night followed similar assaults in Rome and Venice in which vandals have used hammers and stones to chip away at priceless works of art.”
Cincinnati Symphony In Major Cost-Cutting
“Three consecutive years of operating at a deficit will require the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to look at major cost-cutting despite a $1.8 million gift from an anonymous donor that will erase the deficits for the 2003 and 2004 fiscal years.”
Post-Fire – Rebuilding Hell
Among the millions of dollars worth of artwork destroyed in Saatchi fire was the Chapman brothers’ Hell, considered their best work. It consists of 10,000 plastic figures and took two years to make. Now the brothers have decided to rebuild. “We’re going to make a second version, a more extensive, updated `Hell.’ There are a lot of things that didn’t go into the first `Hell.’ This has given us a second opportunity to revisit it.’ Much has changed since 1998, when they began working on Hell. ‘At the time we had just lost our gallery and were unemployed. We had time on our hands’.”