The good cause, the bad delivery, and the ugly soup spills Youth activists with the “Just Stop Oil” movement continue to make headlines for staging demonstrations across Europe. First drumming up the mainstream controversy was a can of tomato soup thrown at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London, and just yesterday Vermeer’s Girl With AContinueContinue reading ““They had it coming””
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Notre-Dame: Making a case for replication
British architect Karl Singporewala writes his take for Architects’ Journal: “Replicating Notre-Dame’s spire is wrong.” We all watched in horror when Notre-Dame burned last spring. We saw the bright blaze tear through her center and force panicked plumes of smoke every direction – they’re tragic images one can scarcely forget in a lifetime. The embersContinueContinue reading “Notre-Dame: Making a case for replication”
Too many restorations are botched
And too few of us are taking this seriously. Last week may have surprised you with the news that Bartolome Murillo’s rendition of the Virgin Mary is now utterly disfigured. To some others, this came as almost no surprise at all. Shown at left: “The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial” by Bartolome Esteban Murillo; theContinueContinue reading “Too many restorations are botched”
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