“Museums’ pricing structures aren’t a question of universal morality. They’re a question of mission. Mission first.”
Category: visual
Architecture-As-Art (Should It Be?)
“Ours is a time when art looks more and more like architecture, and architecture looks quite like art.”
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Design For Berkeley Art Museum Unveiled
“[The] busy New York firm has released the schematic design for a new facility for the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, known as BAM/PFA, in downtown Berkeley. The plans are classic DS+R, which is to say they are canny, sleekly attractive and conceptually overstuffed all at once.”
Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Paintings
“Ernest Hemingway the hunter, Hemingway the fisherman, Hemingway the drinker – they’re all part of the legend. … But Hemingway the art lover?” Yup. “When in New York he was as likely to visit the Metropolitan Museum as Toots Shor’s.”
Why Splurge On A Blockbuster Exhibition When A Single Monet Or Vermeer Will Draw Crowds?
“There might be less money to organise exhibitions in many US museums, but by borrowing one masterpiece, putting it on display, and so turning a single work into a star attraction, several are stretching their budgets a long way.”
What’s Wrong With The 9/11 Memorial
You can commemorate 9/11. You’ll never compete with it.
Is Singapore’s Art Scene Finally Taking Off? (Can It?)
There has been a flurry of successful art events in recent months, and a big new national museum in being built. “But certain exhibits, particularly when they touch on [politics or] sex, have been shut down prematurely. … [Is the island] progressive enough to develop a thriving arts scene?”
Gothenburg Art Center Reported Focus Of 9/11 Anniversary Plot
A late-night opening and reception at the Röda Sten Art Center in Sweden’s second-largest city was evacuated after police discovered a terror plot planned for the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Four Swedisn residents of Somali and Iraqi origin have been arrested in connection with the plan.
Pritzker Prize Jury Gets A Real Judge
“Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will join the jury for the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s top honor, Pritzker officials announced this morning. Joining Breyer on the eight-person jury will be architect Zaha Hadid, who won the prize in 2004.”
Different Trains: A Holocaust Memorial Under Milan’s Central Station
It was from a dark old depot, long since forgotten, underneath the terminal that hundreds of Jews were stuffed into cattle cars and shipped to Auschwitz in 1944. After a long and slow start, Milan is now converting the depot into a memorial and library, complete with wooden train cars.