Category: visual

“Quite simply, the Art Gallery of NSW is one of the most treasured institutions in Australia, and especially in Sydney, and Edmund Capon deserves most of the credit for that.”

“A tower designed by Chicago architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill and to be built in Saudi Arabia will be the world’s tallest building if completed, according to plans unveiled today.”

“Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art.”

“For the last few years pop-up shops have come and gone all over New York, giving real estate developers a temporary solution to the eyesore of an empty lot or storefront, and retailers the chance to test concepts or brands without making long-term commitments. But the Guggenheim project is believed to the first example of a major New York museum getting in on the act.”

“Beverly Hills needs to put a process in place for determining when it makes sense to step in and keep a homeowner from demolishing a valuable piece of architectural history. And it needs to do so quickly, before another of its stock of important houses finds itself in the demolition cross hairs.”

“The Whitney Museum of American Art gets to keep its celebrated building, and the Met, which can never show more than a small fraction of its encyclopedic collection, gets some desperately needed space. But the Met’s use of that space primarily for new art would be a big mistake.”

“On that morning, with the Louvre still closed, they slipped out of the closet and lifted 200 pounds of painting, frame and protective glass case off the wall. Stripped of its frame and case, the wooden canvas was covered with a blanket and hustled off to the Quai d’Orsay station, where the trio boarded a 7:47 a.m. express train out of the city.”

“The change takes effect on Sept. 1. Admission will remain free for children 16 and under; the charge for full-time students will rise to $14 from $12. MoMA is following the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

There are 16 new gallery spaces in the restored Victorian building, but the centrepiece is the Grand Gallery, a four-storey, 18-metre high display of over 800 objects.