Museum Heist in Paris: Gold Vanishes from Natural History Museum
In the world of art and culture, there's always something new and intriguing happening. Here's a selection of recent developments that are worth noting.
Museum News
The Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, is expanding its collection with approximately 80 new artworks. Highlights include a Fred Eversley parabolic lens sculpture, a 1981 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, a Mary Cassatt drawing, and a trio of works by Rashid Johnson.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is preparing to open "Marie Antoinette Style," an exhibit featuring 250 objects and exceptional loans never seen outside France and Versailles.
Unfortunately, not all news from the museum world is positive. Gold worth approximately €600,000 ($700,000) was stolen from the Natural History Museum in Paris's Fifth Arrondissement. The museum's alarm and surveillance systems were disabled during a July cyberattack, but it's unclear if that relates to this week's theft.
Cultural Events
The new Calder Gardens in Philadelphia, designed by the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Dutch landscape architect Piet Oudolf, are set to open. The gardens honour three generations of Calder sculptors. Sandy Rower, a grandchild of Calder, described the works on view as "not motorized" and that "the poetry happens between the objects-the negative space is where the art happens."
In London, activists from the collective Everyone Hates Elon displayed a giant photograph of President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on the grounds of Windsor Castle. The photograph was later removed from the historic monument.
Artistic Controversies
Five members of the punk art collective Pussy Riot have been sentenced to prison in absentia by a court in Moscow. The artists are being targeted for a 2022 antiwar video that opens with the words, "the howls of Mariupol."
Scientists have used laser analysis to identify a mysterious blue color in a Jackson Pollock painting. The discovery sheds new light on the Abstract Expressionist's use of manganese blue in one of his signature works, Number 1A, 1948.
The exhibit sponsored by shoe designer Manolo Blahnik at the Norton Museum is sure to be a highlight for art enthusiasts. However, it's clear that the art world continues to face challenges and controversies, as the cases of Pussy Riot and the theft in Paris demonstrate.
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