Category: Visual

A group of prominent British artists gets together to talk with the Guardian about the state of the arts.  London Telegraph

Simon Schama talks about his new Rembrandt book.  The Art Newspaper

Apocalypse is an idea that grabs ahold of our imagination.  London Telegraph

• Previously: DOOMSDAYISM: British Museum looks at a millennium of apocalypse and art.  New York Times 12/30/99

In Seattle, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is creating a new form of library for the information age, attempting to create a communal center for learning that hovers somewhere between the virtual and the real city.  Los Angeles Times

Maybe technology has led to some self-indulgence in modern architecture. But: “historians will surely draw parallels between the computer-driven proliferation of architectural forms at the end of the millennium, and the formal cornucopia that followed the advent of representational tools such as perspective during the Renaissance and projective geometry during the baroque era.”  Architecture Magazine

How to explain the proliferation of internet sites dedicated to the dissemination of bad art?  National Post (Canada)

Twenty-five years after Vermeer’s “Guitar Player” was stolen from London’s Kenwood House, the mystery of its theft and mysterious return still remains unresolved.  London Evening Standard

The applied arts are thriving in Kyrgyzstan, when traditional crafts are incorporating new Western ideas.  New York Times

That’s how reclusive 80-year-old artist Prunella Clough was described. Earlier this year she won the prestigious £30,000 Jerwood Prize for Painting, and Clough described it as a reward “for a lifetime’s grafting.” True to her nature, she promptly gave the money away to struggling artists. She died Sunday.  BBC

University of Sydney collection is one of the best in Australia, rich in the history of Australian art. Yet, most of its 2,500 pieces of art are hidden away or distributed among buildings the public never gets to see. Is this any way to treat a national treasure?  Sydney Morning Herald