– QUOTE OF THE DAY –

“I wanted people to know the gallery is behind me… and this is a way to reach a broader audience. We feel that everyone should know about art. This way we’ll get some people into the gallery who like Playboy.” – Supermodel and Hole Gallery assistant director May Andersen on being the first “member of the art world (that) has ever been on the cover of Playboy”

– MUST READ –

Breakthrough in Gardner Heist Investigation? – Robert V. Gentile, a 75-year-old “reputed Connecticut mobster” whom the FBI believes has some knowledge of the unsolved 1990 theft of masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is in federal court facing just the kind of charges—up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for illegal firearms—that could make a guy talk. (AP)

A Pair of Important Babies – An Italian Egyptologist has determined that a previously anonymous sculpture of twin infants in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum are not just any twins but Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, the offspring of Cleopatra‘s disastrously fateful affair with Marc Antony. (Discovery)

The Surprising Meaning of The Scream – The poem that Edvard Munch wrote to accompany his famous painting, a version of which will auction at Sotheby’s next week with its highest-ever estimate of $80 million, ends with the line “I felt the great Scream in Nature”—suggesting that the figure in the canvas is not screaming but covering his ears to muffle the sound of a shriek arising from the maddened, disconsolate Earth itself. (FT)

Alice Aycock Sues to Save Her Art – The artist has filed suit against Kennedy Airport over its intention to destroy a 1998 sculpture she created to close up a security loophole at Terminal 1, arguing that J.F.K.’s reason of wanting to make room for more food stands doesn’t meet the criteria of being “required or necessary.” (NYT)

China’s “Going Out, Inviting In” Art Strategy – That is the official name for the government-directed initiative in which the country is both funding major shows of Chinese art abroad—like Wu Guanzhong at the Asia Society—and building major cultural attractions at home, like a 2.1 million-square-foot “art palace” for contemporary art being built in Shanghai and a 1.4 million-square-foot starchitect museum planned for Beijing. (NYT)

– ART MARKET –

Can Art Rentals Make a Comeback? – Years after MoMA suspended its little-remembered rental service that loaned its prints out to New Yorkers for a pittance, a new company called Art Remba is now offering people in the NYC area the chance to rent South Asian artworks for between $50 and $700 per month. (NYT)

– IN & OUT –

The Museum of London has joined the New-York Historical Society in taking placards and banners from the Occupy movement into its permanent collection. (Bloomberg)

LACMA acquired $2.5 million in art over this year’s Collector Committee weekend, including a Dürer print of Saint Jerome, two devotional paintings by Mexican artist Nicolas Enriquez, a 1961 Bruce Connor three-channel video, a photo by Shirin Neshat from her Women of Allah series, and a 60-foot-long Rauschenberg screen print from 1970 that consists of a collage of newspaper articles. (LAT)

Fashion designer-turned-artist Helmut Lang will debut a new show of non-clothing-related sculptures at 24 Washington Square North next Friday, co-curated by Neville Wakefield and Mark Fetcher. (Artinfo)

The jury for this year’s $100,000 ArtPrize will include art critic Jerry Saltz, Bard CCS director Tom Eccles, Indianapolis Museum of Art curator Lisa Freiman, and art blogger Tyler Green. (Gallerist NY)

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Posted on: April 24th, 2012 by Andrew
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