— Lucas Taps Museum Architect: Beijing-based MAD Architects, founded by Ma Yansong, has been chosen to design George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago. Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang will oversee the landscape design. The museum plans to release designs by the end of 2014 and open the museum by 2018. [TAN]
— Rebels Take Museum Tank in Ukraine: Ukrainian rebels took a World War II-era tank and two howitzers from the World War II museum in the insurgent-held city of Donetsk. “They had written authorization to take them away,” said a guard at the museum. “They loaded them into a big truck. They took the tank that was least damaged. I think they’re going to use them to fight.” [AFP]
— Versaille Gets First Permanent Sculpture in 300 Years: Sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel will be the first artist to have his work permanently added to Versailles’s gardens in more than 300 years. The artist is producing three fountain sculptures, made of nearly 2,000 glass orbs, to be installed later this summer as part of a complete renovation of the André Le Nôtre-designed gardens. Othoniel told the Wall Street Journal, “As an artist, and a French artist in particular, there is something very special about making a mark on the land that Le Nôtre and Louis XIV designed.” [WSJ]
— Santa Fe Indian Market Has a New Competitor: The Santa Fe Indian Market, which draws close to 175,000 to the city each August, has a competitor for the first time in its 93-year history, with the inaugural Indigenous Fine Arts Market set to open the same week. [NPR]
— Construction Puts Pressure on Met Food Vendors: Construction on the Met’s plazas through September 9 has left room for only eight food vendors outside the museum, who have been camping out all night to secure their locations. [NYT]
— MOCA’s Blank Exhibition Schedule: LA MOCA’s upcoming exhibition schedule for the Geffen Contemporary and main building on Grand Avenue is puzzlingly blank. [LAT]
— The Delaware Art Museum now expects to raise $19.8 million (instead of $30 million) from the sale of three of its works — causing the museum to consider selling a fourth. [Delaware]
— Someone spray painted images of Homer Simpson all over the exterior of the MFA Boston. [Boston]
— The Louvre Abu Dhabi will announce 300 yearlong loans from 13 French museums by the end of this year. [TAN]
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