{"id":547,"date":"2006-01-26T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2006-01-26T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T12:34:00","slug":"spanish-museum-loses-38-ton-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Spanish museum loses 38-ton work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/serra_bilbao-789187.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/serra_bilbao-753598.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid has lost a 38-tonne steel sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, the museum said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The museum, one of the city&#8217;s largest and most popular, commissioned the work &#8211; four stark, steel slabs &#8211; in 1986 and acquired it a year later for the equivalent of about $220,000 US.<\/p>\n<p>After being exhibited, it was placed in a warehouse in 1990 with a company that specialized in storing large-scale artworks.<\/p>\n<p>But that company was dissolved in 1998, said daily newspaper ABC. When the museum&#8217;s director, Ana Martinez de Aguilar, decided a few months ago to display the sculpture again, no one could find it, the museum said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid has lost a 38-tonne steel sculpture by American artist Richard Serra, the museum said in a statement Wednesday. The museum, one of the city&#8217;s largest and most popular, commissioned the work &#8211; four stark, steel slabs &#8211; in 1986 and acquired it a year later for the equivalent of about $220,000 US. After being exhibited, it was placed in a warehouse in 1990 with a company that specialized in storing large-scale artworks. But that company was dissolved in 1998, said daily newspaper ABC. When the museum&#8217;s director, Ana Martinez de Aguilar, decided a few&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=547\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spanish museum loses 38-ton work<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}