Museums & Institutions Crumbling Roof Raises Conservation Concerns at the British Museum Thin sheeting covers missing glass window panes and industrial heaters have been placed in frigid galleries alongside priceless antiquities. By Cristina Ruiz, Feb 20, 2024
People Andrea Zittel Is Seeking a New Director for A-Z West, the Desert Compound She Has Run for More than 20 Years Zittel, who remains the artistic director, hopes to one day find an institution or collector to purchase the project. By Cristina Ruiz, Nov 7, 2022
Pop Culture Daring—or Foolhardy?—Filmmakers Have Attempted to Recreate the Sistine Chapel for Decades. Here Are 4 Movies That Tried, Ranked Many have tried to recreate the splendor of the Sistine Chapel to make movie magic. We rate the most successful. By Cristina Ruiz, Aug 22, 2022
Art World Netflix Spent $5 Million to Flawlessly Reproduce the Sistine Chapel. Soon After, the Replica Was Destroyed. Why? As productions churn out increasingly elaborate sets, could installations like Netflix’s Sistine Chapel have a second life in the future? By Cristina Ruiz, Aug 22, 2022
Market Holy Shirt! A Set of Pope Francis’s Old Papal Clothes, Signed ‘Francesco’ With a Black Marker, Is Going Up for Auction A video on YouTube shows the Catholic Church head jotting his name down on the outfit. By Cristina Ruiz, Jul 5, 2022
Museums & Institutions Demonstrators Descend on the British Museum to Make the Case for Athens as the Rightful—and Safer—Home for the Parthenon Marbles The demonstration marked the 13th anniversary of the opening of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. By Cristina Ruiz, Jun 20, 2022
People The Business of Being an Art Collector: A Roundtable Discussion With Three Top Patrons About How the Pursuit Has Changed Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, and Paul Ettlinger sat down to discuss how art collecting has evolved. By Cristina Ruiz, Sep 29, 2019
