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Il y a encore des gens marrants dans ce shithole-pays avec son shithole-président: The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh but the Guggenheim offered a solid gold toilet instead
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The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to “borrow” a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters.

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The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled “America” that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.

For a year, the Guggenheim had exhibited “America” — the creation of contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan — in a public restroom on the museum’s fifth floor for visitors to use.

Israel’s Netanyahu uses fake ’2,000-year-old’ coin to justify settlements in West Bank -
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A 2,000-year-old coin promoted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as proof of the Jewish people’s connection to the Israeli-controlled West Bank has been found to be a souvenir reproduction.

“This exciting discovery is additional evidence of the deep connection between the people of Israel and its land - to Jerusalem, to our temple, and to the communities in Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu said of the coin on Facebook Sunday, using the biblical Hebrew term for the West Bank.

Ancient discoveries are not uncommon in Israel and the West Bank. Earlier this month, Israeli authorities uncovered a 2,000-year-old workshop for stone vessels in northern Israel. But this “discovery,” first reported by Israeli media, turned out to be one of thousands of cheap souvenir coins minted by the Israel Museum.

“There is no chance that it is authentic; it is not an ancient coin. Even to call it a coin is to exaggerate what it is,” Haim Gitler, chief curator of archaeology and numismatics at the Israel Museum, told the Times of Israel.

The coin was found by an 8-year-old girl near the Israeli settlement of Neveh Tzuf in the West Bank in May. The supposed discovery garnered attention in Israeli media last week

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Fake history: Netanyahu boasts about ’ancient coin’ from Jerusalem - turns out to be souvenir
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Netanyahu uploaded (then deleted) to Facebook a photo of the object, describing how its discovery attested to long-time Jewish ties to the Holy Land
By Nir Hasson | Aug. 28, 2017 | 4:35 PM

Among those captivated by the recent story of the little Israeli girl who stumbled on a 2,000-year-old half-shekel coin – only to learn some days later that what she had found was a roughly 15-year-old souvenir – was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Various news outlets reported last week that Hallel Halevy, 8, had discovered a rare coin from the days of the Jews’ Great Revolt against the Romans, from 67 to 70 C.E., when walking to get her little sister from kindergarten in the West Bank settlement of Halamish, north of Ramallah.

Not only wasn’t the find a rare coin, it wasn’t a coin at all, at least according to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Officials noted that it’s a replica, dating back anywhere between 15 to 20 years, created as part of its educational program for kids. They also noted that the object had an imprint on only one face, not two, as coins do. The coins were given to children as a souvenir.

Meanwhile, however, Netanyahu had joined the trend, uploading a photo of the item on his Facebook page and writing how the coin, ostensibly a half-shekel dating to the era of the Second Temple, had been found in the province of Benjamin, in the West Bank. The moving discovery, the premier wrote in his post, further attests to the deep ties between the people of Israel and their land – including ties to Jerusalem, the Temple and Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu’s Facebook editor, Yonatan Orich, says the post has been removed until the issue can be clarified

#SFMOMA names Clément Chéroux as new curator of photo collection - SFGate
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the appointment of French curator #Clément_Chéroux as senior curator of photography. The position oversees the Department of Photography and its renowned collection of more than 17,000 photographs — half the works of art in the entire SFMOMA collection.

Chéroux takes over from the retiring Sandra Phillips. Over 29 years as head of the department, she built the collection to its position of prominence and set the stage for the establishment of the Pritzker Center for Photography, the largest such facility in any American museum. Phillips will become emeritus curator effective July 1.

The museum also announced a significant gift: 78 photographs by 25 top artists, including 14 works by André Kertész, as well as pictures by Vito Acconci, Lee Friedlander, William Wegman, Garry Winogrand and others. The donation comes from Lisa and John Pritzker, whose earlier cash contribution led to creation of the Pritzker Center as part of SFMOMA’s recent expansion.

Chéroux, 46, comes to the museum from the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where he is chief curator of the department of photography. He joined the Pompidou in 2007, having lectured on the history of photography at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Paris III and the University of Lausanne. He has published some 40 books and catalogs on photography and served as executive editor of the magazine Études Photographiques, published by the Société Française de Photographie.

“I’m very happy to move to San Francisco, where it seems that things are happening in photography,” Chéroux said by phone from France. On a trip to California last year, he said, “I was so impressed by the new building, by the quality of the private collections. ... I did not feel the same dynamism in L.A. when I was there.”

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Jewish Museum under fire for hosting anti-Zionist, pro-BDS prof
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Judith Butler scheduled to appear at Kafka discussion in NYC; museum defends invite.

Israeli artist and professor Dahn Hiuni told The Algemeiner he was “speechless" that the museum invited Butler to a discussion about the writer Franz Kafka, scheduled for March 6.

But, he said, he wasn’t surprised, accusing Chief Curator Norman Kleeblatt of liking to “travel in those academic circles.”

“As PhDs in art history, they are aligned with ultra-left, politically correct bodies, such as the College Art Association (CAA), where there is much anti-Israel sentiment," Hiuni was quoted as saying.