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Bloomberg is reporting that J.M.W. Turner’s Modern Rome—Campo Vaccino, just sold for $45 million at Sotheby’s, was bought by dealer Hazlitt Gooden and Fox on behalf of the Getty Museum.
» Getty Trust President and CEO James Wood passed away this weekend...Roundup via Tyler Green
Getty Trust president and CEO James Wood died suddenly on Friday. Mike Boehm has the LAT obituary, Jori Finkel rounds up response, and Boehm reports that the Getty won’t race to replace Wood even though it is without both a museum director and a trust leader for the first time since 1982. Lauren Viera writes the Chicago Tribune obit. In the St. Louis Beacon, Bob Duffy shares thoughts on the former St. Louis Art Museum director, and includes a couple cracker-jack stories. (That’s the best thing I read on Wood this weekend, so don’t miss it.) There has been no NYT mention nor obit.
I love the Getty’s blog “Iris”. Here they contribute to National Poetry Month, which in general isn’t something I’m not particularly invested in, but this was a fun one they posted:
Sex is but brief, degrading fun,
And quickly palls when it is done.
So let’s not, like livestock filled with carnal greed,
Rush blind and headlong at the deed;
Such love goes stale, the flame is burned.
But thus, with business evermore adjourned,
Let’s lie together and just kiss.
There’s no toil, no cause for shame in this.
It pleased, it pleases, it long will please;
It ever starts and knows no cease.
-Petronius—it’s about 2,000 years old.
Earthquake damage at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Talca, Chile. Photo: Jorge Sacaan Riadi
Several Chilean museums and historic buildings incurred damage as a result of the massive earthquake that struck Chile on February 27, 2010. Most of the museums under the Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (DIBAM) were substantially undamaged both in terms of their architectural structure and their collections. Only the O’Higgins Museum in Talca and the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago were damaged structurally.
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![Getty Bronze Ruling: Museum to Appeal Italian Court’s Order for Immediate Return
The Getty is disappointed in the ruling issued February 11 by Judge [Lorena] Mussoni in Pesaro, Italy, involving the Statue of a Victorious Youth, often referred to as the Getty Bronze. The court’s order is flawed both procedurally and substantively.It should be noted that the same court in Pesaro dismissed an earlier case in 2007 in which the same prosecutor claimed the Statue of a Victorious Youth belonged to Italy. In that case, the judge held that the statute of limitations had long since expired, that there was no one to prosecute under Italian law, and that the Getty was to be considered a good faith owner.In fact, no Italian court has ever found any person guilty of any criminal activity in connection with the export or sale of the statue. To the contrary, Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, held more than four decades ago that the possession by the original owners ‘did not constitute a crime.The Getty will appeal the Pesaro court’s order to the Court of Cassation in Rome and will vigorously defend its legal ownership of the statue.”
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Getty Bronze Ruling: Museum to Appeal Italian Court’s Order for Immediate Return
The Getty is disappointed in the ruling issued February 11 by Judge [Lorena] Mussoni in Pesaro, Italy, involving the Statue of a Victorious Youth, often referred to as the Getty Bronze. The court’s order is flawed both procedurally and substantively.
It should be noted that the same court in Pesaro dismissed an earlier case in 2007 in which the same prosecutor claimed the Statue of a Victorious Youth belonged to Italy. In that case, the judge held that the statute of limitations had long since expired, that there was no one to prosecute under Italian law, and that the Getty was to be considered a good faith owner.
In fact, no Italian court has ever found any person guilty of any criminal activity in connection with the export or sale of the statue. To the contrary, Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, held more than four decades ago that the possession by the original owners ‘did not constitute a crime.
The Getty will appeal the Pesaro court’s order to the Court of Cassation in Rome and will vigorously defend its legal ownership of the statue.”
Dramz.
