Category: visual

Curator Gayatri Sinha: “Given India’s current economic condition and its very engaged political scene, I think the time for minor narratives has come. The artists’ works I am interested in now are intense, edgy, ironic, witty, and sensuous. I want these kinds of voices to travel outside India.”

“Of the millions of people who visit the Louvre each year, few ever realize that they have entered through the rear. According to the plans of Louis XIV and his ministers, Cardinal Jules Mazarin and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the grand entrance was to be the East Front, a magnificent and perfectly preserved structure that is surely the most distinguished part of the entire Louvre complex and one of the grandest examples of architectural classicism in the world.”

“Centuries ago, block-printing washers settled in Sanganer because of its flowing river. Today the river is choked with sewage; washers have moved to man-made washing areas on roadsides. Wells are running low.”

“There’s been a growing chorus of hoots and raspberries, and mounting pressure on the National Capital Planning Commission to use a coming review of the project to put the kibosh on the plans. And so Mr. Gehry’s defenders have been playing the They-All-Laughed trump card, harrumphing about know-nothings and their resistance to artistic innovation.”

“The greatest surprise about the Prado copy is that it was worked on alongside the original, giving us a greater insight into the Louvre’s version. It would have been very unusual for a copyist to have laboriously worked in this way, since copies were normally done from completed pictures.”

“A federal tribunal has ordered the National Gallery of Canada to the bargaining table, telling the Ottawa art museum it has 60 days to start negotiating with artists’ groups about the fees it pays to exhibit or reproduce their work.”

“At first, the project – which will drape 5.9 miles of fabric across a 42-mile stretch of the river between Salida and Parkdale for two weeks – was planned for summer 2001 ‘at the earliest.’ Then it was 2003. Then 2008. The latest plan – which followed Bureau of Land Management approval last year – was for August 2014, ‘at the earliest.’ Now it’s August 2015.”

“An investigation into the unauthorised disposal of objects from the Bristol-based British Empire and Commonwealth Museum has been dropped by Avon and Somerset police.”

“The statue Vaquero de Fort Worth is finally coming to the north side, and it will be packing heat. Work on the long-awaited 10-foot bronze sculpture … stopped abruptly last year when it was learned that its two Dallas sculptors added a bullet belt and holstered pistol to the design. Now the statue will be installed exactly as the artists intended with a Remington .44-caliber revolver intact.”

“For 12 weeks during the spring and summer of 2013, the Water Tank Project will host works by artists including Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, Tony Oursler, Marilyn Minter and Carrie Mae Weems, as well as rapper Jay-Z.”