— Amal Alamuddin Tackles Elgin Marbles: Attorney Amal Alamuddin, who you may have heard just married George Clooney, has been recruited to advise Greece on getting the Elgin Marbles back from Britain. She is set to travel to Greece to meet with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Culture Minister Konstantinos Tasoulas, along with other government officials. No word if her husband, who stumped for the return of the marbles earlier this year, will join. [The Guardian]
— Frick Remodel in Jeopardy: There are already plenty of high profile oppositionists to the Frick Collection’s expansion plans, but yesterday New York’s Historic Districts Council officially came out against it — a decision that can influence the city’s final ruling on the matter. In a statement, the group said that the expansion “will destroy the design intent of Thomas Hastings’ residential composition and John Russell Pope’s graceful museum transformation.” It also warned the Frick against “giving in to the mania for mindless growth that has afflicted so many other New York institutions.” [NYT]
— Gago Plans Walter De Maria Show: Today in Carol Vogel’s column, she reveals that this November, Gagosian will present the very first show from Walter De Maria’s estate, an entity Gagosian is also working to set up. “He kept pretty good records, and we’re planning to do an inclusive monograph,” Larry Gagosian said. “Walter was never interested in money. That wasn’t a priority.” [NYT]
— French Feminists Rally Against Kiss Sculpture: French group Osez le Féminisme wants Seward Johnson’s sculpture of the figures in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous Times Square kiss photograph removed from a memorial site in Normandy. And in other art news from France, it looks like the Paris art scene is heating up. [NYT, WSJ]
— East of Borneo: Carolina A. Miranda has an interesting piece about the website East of Borneo, where all of the art history dug up by “Pacific Standard Time” now lives online. [LAT]
— Here are some more details about LA’s big Hello Kitty retrospective before it opens tomorrow. [LAT]
— Indonesia is applying to have its celebrity cave paintings added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. [AFP]
— British actor Timothy Spall, who plays JMW Turner in the new biopic, took his painting teacher to the premier of the film. [Telegraph]
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