Category: visual

“Collectively, they also signal an emerging era of scholarship and interest in the history of both civil rights and African-Americans that is to a younger generation what other major historical events were to their grandparents.”

“Getty director James Cuno has denounced repatriation claims of looted antiquities as “nationalistic” and argued against placing limits on museum purchases of objects with an uncertain origin. Getty Museum director Timothy Potts, whose appointment Cuno announced this week, has echoed some of those views.”

“This sense of having lived on too late, of having survived the demolition of past dreams of the future, is what gives the ruin its specific frisson, and it still animates art and writing. But it’s historically bound up with more pressing worries about the fate of one’s own civilisation.”

“With his curls and wry smile, this golden boy in his little shorts and braces peers down from his bronze steed, one arm raised delicately. He looks almost classical. But look again. Those shorts could be leather. He might also be down the disco.”

“A manhunt was under way Saturday in Greece for two suspects who tied up a guard, stormed the Archeological Museum of Olympia, smashed glass casings and stole dozens of small statues.” Meanwhile, the Minister of Culture resigned.

“‘The Story of Chickens: A Revolution’ is set to begin with an unveiling of a mobile chicken coop. … It ends with a public-invited slaughter and a potluck dinner with the chickens on the menu.”

“The notion of a page is being expanded as we speak. I imagine the book going in two directions — one as an art object, printed on paper in small quantities and so expensive only the rich can afford it, and the other as an electronic form that will incorporate still images, animation, a diverse set of links to the open Web and a significant social component.”

“Try not to think of your art and your personal life as disparate entities — have your Twitter and Facebook feeds be a blend of your own personality and your art, which makes it easier for people to get to know you, and makes the act of social networking feel more natural.”

Christopher Knight calls out a conservative group whose campaign against Gehry’s very un-Neoclassical design for the monument includes, as Knight sees it, guilt by association and smears against an artist whom Gehry used as a consultant regarding the memorial’s sculpture.

Who will “succeed the 60 or so ­directors planning to retire by 2019? Instead of candidates steeped in the ethos of museums, the top jobs would increasingly go to people drawn from the business world.”