— Sing Sing May Get Museum: Some citizens of Ossining, New York are hoping to turn an old power plant located on the grounds of Sing Sing into a museum open to the public, despite the fact that the facility is still an active prison. Items on display could include the jail’s famous electric chair and weapons made by prisoners. “It’s full of history, that’s for sure,” said Arthur Wolpinsky, a correction officer at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility since 1971 and the prison historian. “Electrocutions, riots, escape attempts. And so much has changed over the years. Inmates can have cable TV in their cells now.” [AP]
— Cave Paintings Added to UNESCO List: The Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc (Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc) has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. The site contains more than 1,000 images of mammoths, human footprints, and other drawings that were made nearly 30,000 years ago. Discovered in 1994 by researcher Jean-Mari Chauvet, they are among the oldest known human drawings and are considered to be the most well preserved figurative drawings in the world. [ABC News]
— Mauritshuis Opens Subtle Renovation: Carol Vogel took a look at the Mauritshuis renovation before the museum opens to the public this Friday. While it may not seem like much has changed, the museum has doubled its space, thanks to an underground foyer that connects it to a building across the street. “The old building is still the main event,” Emilie Gordenker, the museum’s director, said. “We didn’t want to be too big; we wanted to safeguard against that.” [NYT]
— Man Rescued From Vagina Sculpture: It took more than 20 firefighters to remove an American exchange student from a large public sculpture by Fernando de la Jara, titled “Chacán-Pi (Making Love),” which resembles a vagina, outside Tübingen University’s institute for microbiology in Southern Germany. [Guardian]
— Study Finds Too Much Art in the Classroom Disruptive: A new study by Carnegie University researchers found that classrooms with too many art decorations disrupted attention and distracted learning in young children. [Lohud]
— Nun’s Peace Banner Heads to Cleveland: A peace banner created by artist and Catholic nun Sister Corita Kent for the 1964 New York World’s Fair will be shown at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art. [Ideasteam]
— SFMOMA has almost reached its $610 million fundraising goal. [Bloomberg]
— Hank Bull, Tom Milroy, and Pamela Richardson have joined the board of the Vancouver Art Gallery. [Artforum]
— Two statues looted in 1897 have finally been returned to Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa I, the Oba (King) of Benin. [AFP]
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