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Support for Landmarks in New York Prevails: Frick Decides Against Proposed...
Frick Collection from 5th Avenue It appears the Board of The Frick Collection in New York has decided against its 2014 proposed expansion plans to build the equivalent of a ten-story tower atop their...
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NYLC Panel: Is There Room for Both Historic Preservation & New Development in...
NYLC Panel at The Morgan Library & Museum, May 27, 2015. The New York Landmarks Conservancy recently hosted a panel with a title that posed the question: “Preservation and Development: Is there...
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Disasters of Deaccessioning: Delaware Art Museum’s Final Blow to its Collection.
Winslow Homer, Milking Time (1875) Just last week, the Trustees of the Delaware Art Museum announced the private sales of two paintings from its permanent collection as they closed “one of the most...
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Last Wednesday evening, I had the opportunity to present on past, present, and future wrongs done to art, before an engaged and impassioned audience at The Coffee House Club in midtown Manhattan....
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Fundraising for Art Restoration? There’s an App for That!
ArtWatch spoke out concerning the fundraising schemes at the Vatican back in November 2013. But now it seems they have gone beyond their annual five-day VIP tour of the Vatican’s historic buildings and...
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Betraying Bequests and Selling Art to Pay…Nonexistent Bills?: Thomas Cole’s...
Thomas Cole, “Portage Falls on the Genesee,” 1839. Courtesy: Emerson Foundation / Seward House Museum. An important Thomas Cole painting (valued recently at appr. $20 million) owned by the Seward House...
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Punishing Preservationists for their Lack of Resources? The Dangers of the...
The Empire State Building, one of the landmarks that took longer than 1 year to secure. I recently attended a lecture on the survival of one of New York City’s landmarked sites (now a...
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The Battle to Remember Palmyra: Daniel Johnson Speaks Out For the Artistic...
1st century city of Palmyra in Syria. Courtesy: Standpoint/The University of Heidelberg (CC-BY-SA-3.0). © ZELEDI/GNU 1.2 Earlier this month, news of the destruction of the ancient Temple of Bel at...
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Wilkes’ Sordoni Art Gallery: Another Deaccession Tragedy.
Sordoni Art Gallery as of 2015. Courtesy: Times Leader. Just a month ago, Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery (est. 1973) released a statement that outlined their plans to deaccession works from...
View ArticleA Growing Critical Voice for Art: Wilkes’ Sordoni Gallery Loses Assistant...
Last week, we posted on the troubling activity in Wilkes-Barre, PA: the university’s Sordoni Art Gallery had plans to deaccession and sell pieces of higher value from its collection in order to fund a...
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The Business of Museums: Mismanagement at the de Young in San Francisco.
de Young Museum CEO Dede Wilsey. Courtesy: Panache Privée. We often forget that museums are a big business. They draw in millions annually, contribute billions to the national economy, transport major...
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Overwhelming Support as Landmarks Works Through the Backlog of Proposed Sites.
GVSHP representative speaking at LPC hearing, Nov. 5, 2015. Last Thursday morning at the Municipal Building at No. 1 Centre Street. dozens more supporters of landmark designations in New York City...
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Recap: Art, Law and Crises of Connoisseurship Conference 2015
Society of Antiquaries. Courtesy: VIctorian Web. Last week in London, a rather remarkable gathering was held at the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House. Our sister organization, ArtWatch UK...
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The Uncertain Future of Local History & Preservation.
GVSHP member at the City Planning Commission hearing last week. Courtesy: NY1 / GVSHP. Last week, we saw a significant decision that will shape the future of architectural preservation and local...
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ArtWatch International Presents: 2016 Panel on Preservation
ArtWatch International is pleased to announce that on April 7th, it will be hosting a collaborative lecture and panel with other respected colleagues involved in the historic preservation of art and...
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Recap: Historic Preservation Panel
The Salmagundi Club on 5th Ave. Courtesy: SCNY. What Do the Last 50 Years Tell Us About the Next 50? That was the question of the night earlier this month when three individuals from organizations...
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Architectural Restoration & the “Blank Space”
Sebastiano del Piombo’s “Adoration of the Shepherds”, 1510, before & after restoration. Courtesy: Fitzwilliam Museum. What is a restorer to do when only a fragmented portion of a historic...
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Donald’s Demolition: Wreckless Jackhamering of Artistic Heritage to Make Way...
Sculptures on the facade of the Bonwit Teller building, as it is prepared for demolition in 1980. Courtesy: Nathan Kernan / New York Times. What to do with some iconic sculptures on the façade of a...
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ArtWatch International Presents the 2016 James Beck Memorial Lecture and...
ArtWatch International, Inc. is pleased to announce our seventh annual James Beck Memorial Lecture. Each year ArtWatch holds an annual James Beck Memorial Lecture and reception to commemorate the...
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Frank Mason Painting Raffle to Benefit the Preservation of the Historic...
Frank Mason in the studio. Courtesy: Karen Winslow/Brushwork Blog. Our 8th annual James Beck Memorial Lecture was a brilliant gathering of those invested in the making of art and the stewarding of its...
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