“Since the time of Albert Barnes’ death in an automobile accident in 1951, the Barnes Foundation has been a case study in how an institution, created by a brilliant mind with clear intentions, can become irrevocably damaged through overly restrictive operating guidelines, unanticipated leadership problems, and the competing missions of other organizations and institutions.”
Category: visual
Not Too Late For Memory: Japanese-American Internment Museum Opens
“For three years during World War II, more than 10,000 Japanese-Americans were interned here at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Many vowed they’d never return once they were freed in 1945 after the surrender of Japan.” On Saturday, more than 250 came back.
What’s In A (Kid’s) Bedroom? Pictures Of Young Lives
“Mollison’s diptychs show more than a child’s health and sleeping arrangements. The juxtapositions expose systemic differences among cultures, economies, classes, and lifestyles. At the same time, the photographs remind us of the universality of humanity.”
Why Can’t We Have Nice Stadiums? Lackluster Arena Architecture In The U.S.
“The billion-dollar replacement for legendary Yankee Stadium? A boring clone. The new Citi Field, home to the Mets? It’s stuck in even more of a historicist time-warp, meant to evoke Brooklyn’s old Ebbetts Field practically brick for brick.”
Stealing The Mona Lisa: A Minute By Minute Recreation
“Vincenzo Peruggia breathed in heavily the scent of his sweat as he waited, barely willing to exhale, in the tight, dark closet beside the Salle des Sept Martres gallery in the Louvre. He listened for the footfalls of the guards.”
Deaccessioning-Art-To-Fund-Museum-Operations Issue Hits Dutch Museums
“Rotterdam’s Wereldmuseum plans to sell its African and American treasures to cover funding shortfalls made more likely by the economic crisis in Europe and a planned cut in state subsidies to the arts starting in 2013. It is one of several Dutch museums under pressure to raise money from the public purse.”
Department Heads Fired In Management Shakeup At LACMA
“The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has shaken up its non-curatorial management team, firing several veteran department heads in what director Michael Govan says is not a financial belt-tightening, but a bid to better adapt to technology-driven change while shifting some priorities.”
How To Save The Taj Mahal?
“A debate rages over preserving the awe-inspiring, 350-year-old monument that now shows signs of distress from pollution and shoddy repairs.”
Did Picasso Invent The French Riviera?
Jonathan Jones: “[If] French 19th-century artists such as Degas defined the traditional seaside, it was Picasso in the 1920s who gave a visual form to the modern hedonism of sand and sensuality sur la plage. It was in that decade that the French Riviera became the image of sultry decadence, a mythic status it would keep through the 20th century.”
Gallery Owner Accuses SpongeBob SquarePants Designer Of “Massive Forgery Scheme”
“A California gallery owner has accused artist Todd White, a former designer on the “SpongeBob SquarePants†cartoon series, of hiring thugs to hold her hostage and steal $1.5m worth of art. White has shot back with his own claims of a massive forgery operation.”