Category: visual

No one’s quite ready to stick The Fork in the Road and say it’s done, but the end of the year-long saga of Pasadena’s favorite piece of guerrilla art could be in sight. Just a few more shreds of red tape remain … and the giant 18-foot wooden utensil will go back to the fork in the road at St. John and Pasadena Avenues.”

“When Chinese porcelains made their way to Europe via the Silk Road, Europeans quickly began trying to make their own. But they assumed porcelain was vitreous, not clay-based. After 15th-century Italian alchemists developed an opaque, white glass they called ‘lattimo’ (from latte, meaning milk), others refined the process.”

“Beyond the behavior the sculpture triggers, critics have seized on the subject’s lack of connection with the city. The film’s famous subway-grate scene is set in Manhattan, and the Amazonian replica of the pin-up was fabricated in New Jersey, where the artist, Seward Johnson, an 80-year-old grandson of a co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, maintains a studio.”

“From 1961 to 1973, a loosely organized group of artists and scientists coalesced around the radical idea that the emerging technology of the computer could be used to make a different kind of art. Known simply as the New Tendencies, this heterogeneous movement included dozens of men and women from the far reaches of the industrialized world.”

20 20 Vision Project commits to a wild Britain: “If nature’s SOS is to be heard beyond the scientific community, the message needs re-branding for the masses – biodiversity needs an image makeover.”

“A rigging crew was completing the installation of “Sequence” on a recently poured concrete slab behind the museum. A giant crane, hired by the riggers, stretched several stories above the buildings’ roofline. Placement and assembly of the 235-ton piece had gone smoothly, taking only about three days.”

“When in July 1965 a 61-year-old retired truck driver announced at West End Central police station that he had stolen the Goya, it was hard for the police to take Kempton Bunton seriously.”

“Elsewhere, some of the nation’s pre-eminent scientists were preparing the lasers that will form the hour, minute and second hands. The green, red and blue laser lights will be emitted from a steel tower and will sweep horizontally above guests.” And at the end of the Burning Man festival, it will all be destroyed.

“This isn’t crowd-sourcing as we know it. Instead, an added element has been introduced: gaming. Using a series of incentives, from leader board-style status-enhancers to virtual rewards, Magnum hopes to make the tagging process more fun, and, as a result, more popular.”

The headline of John Marin’s New York Times obituary described him as “Artist Considered by Many as ‘America’s No. 1 Master.’ ” So why does Mr. Marin so often get the “John Who?” treatment?