Remember, we are the Huffington Post Arts & Culture page after all. Don't get us wrong, artists are a special breed and, in many ways, we love them dearly. A newspaper in New Delhi includes MOBA in their list of best museums. Concerns that those mistakes might be repeated arose in 2016 as the Louvre prepared to begin work on the Renaissance artist’s 1513 masterpiece St. John the Baptist, which had not been cleaned since 1802. }); return numDays * 24 * 60; Marius Becker/Picture Alliance/Getty Images. } var i = cookieNames.length, Artnet News, c = c.substring(1); //default prefix is 'artnet_newsletter_' In another case of a misguided church parishioner wreaking havoc on a beloved piece of religious art, Maria Luisa Menendez took it upon herself to jazz up a trio of 15th-century wooden sculptures with a fresh coat of paint. As the distance from the war has grown, criticism of the memorial has faded. In Spain, Barcelona’s Lavanguardia newspaper discovers the Museum Of Bad Art. + '<\/div>' Police estimates put the total crowds coming to Fifth Avenue South for its shows as 17,000 to 35,000, according to Ed Clay, of Dragon Horse, the center's media relations company. Excuse us while we air our grievances and, please, try not too take some of these too personally. Some 25 years after completing the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Renaissance polymath Michelangelo returned to the Vatican to work on a fresco that would be debated for centuries. Pedretti soon announced that a team of colossally uninformed restorers had destroyed the historic artwork by treating it with water and alcohol without first testing the ink for solubility.
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' 13. "What we discovered was we had some serious financial problems," Baker said. if (!window.jQuery) loadJQuery(); function addCss(fileName) { "Our goal for the new Naples Art, emphasis on new, is to become the central address for visual arts in Naples," Baker said. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter, Register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot today. 7. But every once and a while we can't shake off the suspicion that, between the snobbery, the hypocrisy, the money and the bullshit, artists are just the worst. All Rights Reserved.var w = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientWidth, window.innerWidth || 0), + '<\/div>' ©2020 Verizon Media. setNewsletterCookie('closedSignupBar', 1); var c = ca[i]; $form.find('.invalid-email').show().siblings().hide(); The good news was short lived. // Init - Anything you want to happen onLoad (usually event bindings) Maya Lin, “Vietnam Veterans Memorial,” completed 1982. In 2005, Q magazine included the album in a list of "Ten Terrible Records by Great Artists", and it ranked #4 in their 50 worst albums of all-time list. SignupForm.init($modal.find('form'), function onSuccess() { + '
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