“Arts museums should not be haughty and condescending to visitors. It is not a place for adults to be arty and phony, but rather a place pleasantly accessible to people, especially to children ,” she added. The museum has since apologized and said visitors are in fact free to sketch the artworks on show. [Metro]

A museum Taiwan recently told a kid to stop sketching a Picasso painting during a visit. The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts accused the poor child of “ copying” the artwork. Lee Chia-yan, who is a p hysician, wrote on Facebook that she witnessed the incident and said it was “ totally at odds with the common practice of the world’s leading art museums,” according to Metro.

Another tale of doom and gloom for a British museum. This time it’s Scotland’s Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery, which says it may need to start selling off its collection because the coffers are empty. “At the same time, the SNP government has been accused of back-tracking on a promise of £100 million funding for the arts ,” The Times reports. [The Times]

@Stevo I hear the second season of Andor is probably going to be good.

Apparently, the art world in Britain is just as bad in its own way.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/uk-working-class-art-2523393

#CoSoArt

@Stevo
And it got cancelled. No second season. So, your reaction wasn't the only one apparently.

@wolfwoman @stueytheround @Mauve_matelot
The charm of the the first two Antman movies is that they're set in everyday life. Then there's Paul Rudd and his three friends, who keep the humor grounded.
The third one wasn't as good, because they forgot what made the first two work so well. A superhero dealing with everyday concerns.

Trying to Recover the British Museum’s Gems, and Its Reputation

https://archive.ph/O8v7o

I usually buy them on sale at Blick or Jerry's Artarama.

Because us artists are broke most of the time....a few framing tips courtesy of the NYTimes.

https://archive.ph/NzBn6

#CoSoArt

The guards get it.

What to See at 5 Top Art Museums? We Asked Guards for Their Favorite Works.

https://archive.ph/75L6C

#CoSoArt #CoSoArtist

Speaking of dead artists....

Illuminating a Trailblazing Artist Who Died Too Young
In her first American museum show, Paula Modersohn-Becker looks bracingly modern.

https://archive.ph/en2bY

#CoSoArt #CoSoArtist

But speculating on artists is different from speculating on stocks and cryptocurrencies. Artists say it feels intensely personal.
“You are buying a piece of my life — a little history of me and my people,” said Lewis, who gives the subject of every portrait a portion of the proceeds from each sale. Such charity is rare in the United States — where living artists, not to mention their subjects, have no legal claim to the proceeds of a sale by a collector or institution.

"Georgina Adam, the author of two books on the contemporary art market, said that changes in taste previously dictated the rise and fall of artists over long periods of time. Today, she said, the cycles are shorter and “the reason is speculation.” More than a third of the buyers at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in 2021 were new clients, and Adam said they may have been more interested in turning a profit than becoming lifelong patrons."

@sentientdessert @poemblaze
There was a comedy in the 60s about an artist having to pretend he was dead so his art would sell. I think it had Dick van Dyke and Dean Martin in it.

@sentientdessert
It's pretty cynical out there. For that crowd, it's about investment value, not whether the buyer actually loves the art.
That is the major consolation for me: whoever buys my art, buys it because they love it and they want to have in their daily space - and not in a vault accruing interest.

@poemblaze @sentientdessert
True.

Again, in 2014, a group of young artists whom critics called the “Zombie Formalists” because of their retro abstract styles became market darlings. Three years later, many of their paintings sold for a fraction of their peak prices — if they sold at all.