Category: visual

“The Venice Biennale art exhibition now runs like a normal international event, with adequate toilets, refreshment points, marketing, press facilities and ticketing, and also manages to cover nearly 80% of its costs” — so why is its chairman losing his spot? Party politics, say some.

In Spain, 14,000-year-old cave paintings face a new threat — a drive for money. “Local officials want to reopen the cave to boost the local economy, but visitors could heat the caves and introduce microbes that destroy pigments.”

In the wake of attacks on Poussin paintings, a planned Leonardo da Vinci blockbuster at London’s National Gallery might not be safe enough for its security guards – and now they may take action to shut down the show, expected to be wildly popular.

Moving Michael Heizer’s 340-ton “Levitated Mass” to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art means “a trip that will take the boulder through the heart of one of the most congested urban centers in the country: nine nights at six miles an hour, through 120 miles of roads, highways, bridges, overpasses, overhead wires, alarmingly low-hanging traffic lights and sharp turns.”

“It is a trip that will take the boulder through the heart of one of the most congested urban centers in the country: nine nights at six miles an hour, through 120 miles of roads, highways, bridges, overpasses, overhead wires, alarmingly low-hanging traffic lights and sharp turns.”

“Great design will really convert people, but it will also put off other people. So you have to be willing to offend people; to make things that you know a lot of people are going to hate.”

“India’s sub-standard state museum infrastructure is set to be enhanced by plans for” two major institutions, one in Kolkata (Calcutta), with an expected opening in 2014, and another in Patna, planned for 2015.

“Pritzker officials said the justice’s intelligence, disposition and enthusiasm for architecture made him a good choice to serve on a panel that hopes to expand the breadth of its jurors’ experience.”

“Judge Stanley Ott of Montgomery County Orphans’ Court ruled that the Friends of the Barnes, an organization opposed to moving the renowned collection of Impressionist and early Modernist work from its original home to a new museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, had no legal standing to challenge the move.”

“So why would the prizewinning Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron take on the Park Avenue Armory, a project that is more restoration than renovation, more fixer-upper than fresh take?”