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Last week sculptor Ray Boudreau told a Times Colonist that “it’s absolutely 110% my carving” and supporting his claim he provided photos of a sculpture he executed in 2017 which the Times Colonist writer called “a strikingly similar sculpture.” Boudreau said he used a simple hammer and chisel to shape the distinctive face before the stone vanished from the beach. What happened next is the controversial bit. After Boudreau’s comments became public, according The Guardian , “the museum quietly deleted the blogpost and any other references to the discovery.” This “apparen...

Plus, the Museum of African American Music opens in Nashville, and watch out for Florine Stettheimer fakes. February 8, 2021 Thomas Campbell at the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" press conference in May 2016. (Photo by Randy Brooke/Getty Images) Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, February 8. NEED-TO-READ Mwazulu Diyabanza Eyes the British Museum as His Next Target – While museums are closed, the Congolese activist, who made headlines last y...

A stone figure found on a beach was probably by a Lekwungen people artefact, the Royal British Columbia Museum said, but Ray Boudreau begged to differ

Artist Ray Boudreau says he is "100% positive" that an object, left, which recently washed up on a Canadian beach, is a sandstone carving he was working on in 2017 that disappeared overnight Photos: Royal BC Museum, Grant Keddie and Ray Boudreau A Canadian artist says that a totemic stone pillar discovered on the beach in Victoria, British Columbia, which archaeologists of the Royal British Columbia Museum thought was a ritual Lekwungen object, is actually a work-in-progress of his made just a few years ago, which went missing and might have been swept into the ocean. Las...

A local artist says he couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw a photo of his rock carving being heralded as an Indigenous artifact by the Royal British Columbia Museum.“I was totally surprised,” Ray . . .