— “Mobile Lovers” Lifted by Youth Club: Bansky’s recent “Mobile Lovers” piece was discovered yesterday in Bristol, but just as fans began showing up for a look, members of a local youth group removed the artwork with a crowbar and stowed it inside their center. Dennis Stinchcombe, 58, leader of the Broad Plain & Riverside Youth Project, hopes to sell it to keep the financially struggling facility open. He claims that because the artwork was created on a removal plank of wood, it was meant to be taken. “I think Banksy’s give it to us as a gift. It’s left out there for somebody to do something with, and I think I’m doing something with it,” Stinchcombe said. [Guardian, Independent]
— Folk Art Architects Speak Out: The architects of the former Folk Art Museum, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, have spoken publicly for the first time about MoMA’s plans to tear the building down. “Yes, all buildings one day will turn to dust, but this building could have been reused,” Williams said. “Unfortunately, the imagination and the will were not there.” [NYT]
— Performance Artist’s Boston Bomb Hoax: Self-described performance artist Kayvon Edson was arrested at the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday, donning a black veil and shouting “Boston Strong,” as the city mourned the one-year anniversary of last year’s horrific bombings. The 25-year-old art student is being charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, and possession of a hoax device after police were forced to explode a backpack he left at the scene that contained a rice cooker. [Business Insider, MassLive]
— More Delays for Picasso Museum: Paris’s Picasso Museum, which has been closed for the past four years, has delayed its opening again to an unspecified date probably at the end of this year. [NYT]
— Caillebotte Restoration Surprises: A restoration of Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day” at the Art Institute of Chicago has revealed the artist to be more of an Impressionist than previously thought. [WSJ]
— Milwaukee Weather Deficit: Harsh winter weather slashed attendance significantly and contributed to six-figure deficits for the Milwaukee Art Museum. [Journal Sentinel]
— Marianne Rosenberg, the granddaughter of the now-famous art dealer whose collection (which included Matisse and Picasso) was seized by Nazis during World War II, plans to open a gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. [DNAinfo]
— Elena Filipovic, currently senior curator at the WIELS Contemporary Art Center in Brussels, has been appointed the new director of the Kunsthalle Basel. [Artforum]
— A new documentary film will explore the history of the influential Chouinard Art Institute in the years before the California Institute of the Arts absorbed it. [LAT]
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