In Brief: Selfie results in ‘$200,000 of damage’ to artworks

Advertising watchdog to get tough on gender stereotypes The Advertising Standards Authority will crack down on ads that feature stereotypical gender roles. Ads that mock people for not conforming to gender types or reinforce gender roles had ‘costs for individuals, the economy and society’, the ASA said. As a result new rules will be drawn up that will take effect next year. The ASA said it had decided to conduct a review following the public’s reaction to the ‘beach body ready’ advertising campaign in 2015.

Christie’s reports soaring sales of £10m-plus art Auction house is boosted by Asian demand as well as lots including £44m Brancusi and £36m Beckmann in first half of year. The number of artworks sold for more than £10m rose to 38 in the first six months of 2017, from 14 in the same period last year.

Paris’s Pompidou Centre to open gallery in Shanghai The modern art gallery, which also plans to open branches in South Korea and Belgium, has been in talks for more than a decade with China. It will show around 20 exhibitions over five years in a wing of the new West Bund Art Museum, which is being built in the cultural district of China’s commercial capital by British architect David Chipperfield.

Selfie results in ‘$200,000 of damage’ to artworks – but was it a stunt? Leaning back into a pedestal to try to get the perfect angle, woman took out a whole row of sculptures at an LA gallery. However, critics have thrown doubt on whether the accident, captured perfectly by what appears to be CCTV footage, was in fact a stunt by one or more of the artists involved.

Construction begins on new affordable artist studios in New York Within the Brooklyn Army Terminal, a former military supply base built nearly one hundred years ago and located along the waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood, the Brooklyn-based nonprofit ArtBuilt has begun construction on fifty thousand square feet of new workspaces for artists. Each tenant will be provided with an affordable, long-term lease.

Trial postponed for Bardo Museum attack that left at least 20 dead A criminal trial for those accused of conspiring to perpetrate the attack at Tunis’s Bardo Museum in 2015, where two gunmen killed an officer and twenty-one tourists, has been postponed until 31 October. The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Genoa closes art exhibition after paintings ‘turn out to be fakes’ Authorities in Genoa have confiscated 21 suspect artworks supposedly by Amedeo Modigliani after confirming that several paintings showcased in a major exhibition at the Doge’s Palace were likely fakes.

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1. Selfie causes ‘$200,000 of damage’ to artworks. Screengrab from YouTube

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