Category: visual

The renovation is necessary “to ensure the condition of the building and the safety of the visitors in the long run”.

The Drawing Institute at the Morgan Library & Museum “will present exhibitions, sponsor annual fellowships, host seminars and organize a full schedule of public and academic programs.” A Morgan trustee “has given the institution $5 million to start it.”

When news, along with excerpts, of an album of rare World War II photos was posted on blogs at The New York Times and Der Spiegel, it took the Web’s collective hive mind all of three hours to identify the previously unknown German photographer.

The Walker Art Center’s “curatorial staff had originally envisioned that Mr. Waters would do a kind of ‘intervention’ to keep the collection galleries lively. But he … almost completely overhauled the existing show. … And he tweaked the entire museumgoing experience with additional manipulations of the parking lot, cafe, admissions badges and audio tour.”

“The exhibition galleries at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will close on July 4 for a two-year renovation and expansion.”

“[With] the arrest in Santa Monica Wednesday of notorious Boston crime boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, many in the art world are now asking: Could it provide a break in the greatest art heist in American history?”

“The Monet was the only work separated from the heiress’s collection. Huguette Clark purchased the small 1907 canvas in 1930 from Monet’s gallery in Paris. The work was last publicly displayed in 1925.”

“The Van Gogh Museum said Tuesday its experts now believe one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings previously thought to be a self-portrait actually depicts his brother, Theo.”

“For decades, Frank Bender has stared at human skulls, handled them, even boiled scraps of flesh off them. He has done this to shape clay busts in the hope of giving names to rotting corpses and skeletons found in woods or alleys or abandoned houses. … His work has helped the authorities capture several notorious criminals who may have thought they were safe in their new lives.”

A growing number of collectors “have lately been demonstrating that connections may not be as important as they once were — and that online sales, a segment of the art business given up for dead not long ago, are becoming an increasingly important part of its future.”