- The (obviously) strange story of how these terrifying wax Star Trek figures came to the collection of The Hollywood Science Fiction Museum. [The Fresno Bee]
- A kinda-ugly Normal Rockwell painting has been reunited with a family after a theft 40 years ago. Sometimes the painting is known as “Boy Asleep with Hoe”. LOL. [CNN]
- Chairman Mao must be rolling in his grave. A Warhol portrait of the Communist dictator just sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong for $12.6 million. [Reuters]
- Renzo Piano has completed new ceramic-covered galleries for the collection and exhibition programs of the Fundación Botín in Santander, Spain. The center has a lot in common with Piano’s new Whitney museum, but looks much more elegant. [Dezeen]
- This is fascinating: a map of every borough’s oldest buildings and a little history blurb about each. Staten Island and Brooklyn have so many structures dating from the 1600s! [Curbed]
- Paul Moorhouse, the curator of Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends at London’s National Portrait Gallery, on the late artist’s work. A good, brief read. [Apollo]
- Headline of the day: “City police save Light City art installation from a watery grave”. [The Baltimore Sun]
- Wow. The situation at the Met sounds like a mess. Thomas P. Campbell, the museum’s outgoing director, apparently had an “inappropriate relationship” with a female staff member in the museum’s digital department. And the board of directors seems to have very little control over the massive institution. We’ll be watching this one closesly. [The New York Times]
Amazon Art Customer Reviews are Hysterical
by Ian Marshall on August 9, 2013It’s only been a week since Amazon launched its new fine arts category, but the customer reviews are already pouring in. Naturally, we immediately took to combing the site for the best of them. Some of the juiciest comments have already been removed from the site, but luckily we were able to snag a lot them before they disappeared. Hoo-boy, did we ever find some good ones!