Back in June, sculptor Anish Kapoor installed the sculpture Dirty Corner on the grounds of the famous palace there. Kapoor, who can’t seem to avoid public controversy over his work, saw the sculpture first become the object of debate with regard to its form itself, specifically, the suggestion that the shape of the large work was anatomical. Kapoor coyly fostered speculations about what it was meant to represent, but ultimately demurred that his “work has multiple interpretive possibilities." With recent vandalism and a court order that he remove the graffiti, however, the story has turned into one more about free expression and compelled speech. So far, it does not have a happy ending.
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Topics:
Rock Fan,
Versailles,
The Art Newspaper,
Fabien Bouglé,
Ku Klux Klan,
Dirty Corner,
Graffiti Art,
France,
Williams College,
Fleur Pellerin,
Nazis,
Palace of Versailles,
Confederate Flag,
Richard Serra,
Catherine Pégard,
refugee crisis,
Williams College Museum of Art,
First Amendment,
Yardbird Suite,
Anish Kapoor,
François Hollande,
vandalism,
anti-Semitic,
Graffiti,
Amherst College,
Tilted Arc
A last reminder that on Monday, there will be a panel discusion at Columbia Law School entited "Selling the Museum's Collection: Is Deaccessioning Ever Appropriate?" From the event description:
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Topics:
Donn Zaretsky,
Roberta Smith,
Deaccession,
Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
Cornell University,
Graham W. J. Beal,
Richard Levin,
Frank Robinson,
Pippa Loengard,
the Art Law Report,
Events,
Selling the Museum's Collection: Is Deaccessioning,
Williams College Museum of Art,
Nicholas O'Donnell,
Rhode Island School of Design,
New York Times,
Detroit Bankruptcy,
Samuel Sachs II,
Detroit Institute of Art
