Conflict of interests: Paolo Giorgio Ferri vs. Douglas Latchford
The year 2020 saw the passing of two enormous forces in the arts and antiquities exchange – Paolo Giorgio Ferri, and Douglas Latchford. What can the general public learn from such opposing legacies? In 2008, Paolo Giorgio Ferri brought the Euphronios krater home to Italy – thus ending the country’s thirty-year dispute with New York’s…
“They had it coming”
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 A…
Loopholes and laundering: when free trade turns nefarious
Buying and selling art has long stood as a pastime for the elite – and in the case of multi-million dollar transactions, one could argue it’s a sport of its own. And it’s certainly competitive. Even the most prestigious auctions are merely a race measured in time, taste, and resources; and we can imagine that…
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 embers…
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