Category: visual

“The University of Sydney, which was given the 1935 painting Jeune Fille Endormie, by an anonymous donor, will use the money for specialist research chairs in its still under-construction multidisciplinary research centre.”

“A feedback loop has formed; art is turned into a fixed shell game, moving the same pieces around a limited board. All this work is highly competent, extremely informed, and supremely cerebral. But it ends up part of some mannered International School of Silly Art.”

“Twelve artists including Tracey Emin, Martin Creed and Chris Ofili will design a set of posters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games next summer, as Britain seeks to use the events to showcase its cultural heritage.”

“The Brooklyn Museum has canceled plans to show Art in the Streets, the popular but controversial graffiti exhibition originated by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.” Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman said, “With no major funding in place, we cannot move ahead.”

“Beer, granola, juice and olives are sporting barcodes that integrate famous buildings, blades of wheat and bubbles into the ubiquitous black and white rectangle of lines and numbers. Consumer-goods companies hope these vanity barcodes will better connect with customers.”

“Under this law, the owner of any work created after 7 June 1988 cannot display it without the copyright holder’s permission, which could mean paying a fee to the artist each time a work is exhibited. Most Canadian museums try to negotiate the long-term right to display works they acquire at little or no fee. An extra exhibition fee is generally paid if a post-1988 work is borrowed.”

“A scrap of twisted silver found a few weeks ago by a metal detector in Lancashire will take its place among masterpieces of medieval art at the British Museum … It shows one of the companions of St Ursula, one of the most popular mystical legends of medieval Europe.”

“Almost 20 years ago, in a spirit of regional competition – when Bilbao was planning its Guggenheim gallery and Valencia was building a city of science and art – the authorities thought Galicia should do more to promote its unique cultural heritage…”

The four-story building, shaped like a giant ring surrounding landscaped parkland, “would house 12,000 of the company’s employees under one roof, as well as take advantage of technologies the company’s picked up by building its retail stores over the years.”

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect “may be white-bearded and dark-clad and his office, in a secluded spot outside the Swiss town of Chur, may take the form of a cloister around a garden … and he may like to talk of such things as the ‘mystery’ of materials. But at the suggestion he might be otherworldly, he becomes vehement.”