Mary Cassatt exhibition documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUEfAkMepDk

While this isn’t especially new or exclusive to the art market, King argued that this way of thinking, primarily that of the speculator, had become the “prevailing assumption” among buyers; in other words, it was no longer taboo to mention in polite company.

The talk of the summer was a memo circulated by adviser Jacob King, who, in taking the temperature of the market as it stands, posited that an “investment mindset”—defined as an approach to buying art that “boils down to a single question: how likely is it to go up in value?”—had run amok.

@Teire
I remember watching one of those investigative documentary shows with Josh Gates in which they tried to find it.

After 31 years, a French treasure hunt that attracted thousands of passionate followers, who painstakingly tried to solve a book of riddles leading to a buried golden owl statue comes to an end. The hunt's social media account called it off on Thursday, but questions remain about where it was discovered, and by whom. [France 24]

Journalists Yoav Gonen and April Xu, respectively at The City and Documented, examined 2,500 pages of emails, which show how Adams’ aide, Winnie Greco, pushed the Brooklyn Museum to stage a show dedicated to Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China, in just one month’s time, on behalf of the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China. [ The City and Documented]

An investigative report by local news outlets found that while New York City mayor Eric Adams was borough president of Brooklyn in 2016, his office allegedly pressured the Brooklyn Museum to host a Chinese history exhibition.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/top-200-collectors-2024-issue-introduction-1234719108/

ARTnews’ Top 200 Collectors discuss today’s art market, where an “investment mindset” has apparently run amok. Buying by volume may be down, but the top tier of collectors continues to acquire artworks, and several share their perspectives on the art world’s own version of “tulip mania." [ARTnews]
#CoSoArt

Oops! A museum technician accidentally threw away an artwork by Alexandre Lavet at Holland's LAM museum because he thought it was trash. Museum officials were able to recover the undamaged sculpture and were understanding about the mistake. After all, the Lavet piece, All the good times we spent together (2016) is meant to look like trash. It comprises two perfectly replicated, hand-painted, and crushed cans of beer. [Artnet News]

#CoSoArt

The Musé du Quai Branly in Paris has apologized and promised to correct labels and texts which omit the term “Tibet,” and replace it with the Chinese government-preferred term, “Xizang.” The response comes amid allegations that the institution was caving to Chinese pressure by erasing Tibetan cultural denominations. Similar accusations have been launched at the Musée Guimet in Paris. [Hyperallergic]

#Tibet #CoSoArt

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/real-art-in-museums-stimulates-brain-much-more-than-reprints-study-finds

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The study commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Haugue used eye-tracking tech and MRI scans to record brain activity on 20 volunteers while they looked at genuine, versus reproduced artworks. “You become [mentally] richer when you see things, whether you are conscious of it or not, because you make connections in your brain,” said Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis.

OTHING LIKE THE REAL THING, PROVES SCIENCE. Speaking of virtual experiences, scientists in Holland have demonstrated that the real thing is a whole lot better. A neurological study has shown that physical artworks experienced in person stimulate the brain ten times more than looking at an image on a poster, reports The Guardian.
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https://archive.ph/42W1Z

Uh oh! #ValleyFever
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-02/the-threat-of-valley-fever-is-growing-in-central-california