COURTESY LE FREEPORT
A look inside Luxembourg’s 237,000-square-foot art-storage facility, Le Freeport, which has garnered controversy for possibly doubling as a space for illegal activity. [Wall Street Journal]
The Dutch government has pledged €80 million ($89.3 million) toward the purchase of two Rembrandt portraits. “Rembrandts like these, I mean they just don’t happen,” said Taco Dibbits, the director of collections at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. [The New York Times]
After Grand Rapids City Hall refused to show his controversial installation involving ashes of holy texts, Syrian-American artist Nabil Mousa is struggling to compete in ArtPrize. [MLive]
Tom Finkelpearl, New York City’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, is taking a leave of absence for treatments for cancer. [The New York Times]
Former Detroit Institute of Arts director Graham Beal is now a visiting professor at Michigan State University. [MSU Today]
Henry Taylor at Carlos/Ishikawa. [Contemporary Art Daily]
We Go to the Gallery, a picture-book spoof of the art world, has earned its author Miriam Elia critical acclaim—and some legal trouble. [The Guardian]
National Endowment of the Arts chair Jane Chu visited Fresno, California, where she saw a performance by the Youth Orchestra of Fresno and spoke with local art teachers. [The Fresno Bee]
A new play dramatizes one woman’s use of art therapy to deal with the trauma of being raped. [The Daily Pennsylvanian]