Category: visual

State officials claim that the New York-based Dia Foundation in New York, which manages the site of the earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake, were late in paying $250 annual rent and didn’t respond to a notice that the lease’s term was expiring.

The court rules that critics claiming the trove of material is fake had not proven their case.

“Devised by chief executive and Princeton computer science engineer, Carter Cleveland, Art.sy hopes to take art to a wider potential audience. Modelling itself on successful music sites like Pandora, it uses “genome technology” to make connections between works of art based on shared characteristics to introduce users to works they might not otherwise know.”

“Just as new rich economies are buying branded luxury goods, so they are, or will be, buying internationally recognised artists. But it would be wrong to conclude that all these regions behave in the same way. In fact there are striking differences between each one.”

“Do sizable admission prices, even suggested ones, discourage lower-income visitorship? (Of course.) Should museums that receive taxpayer money charge for admission? (A lot of people say no, even though many museums receive relatively little in the way of public subsidies.) Do museums have a kind of moral obligation, like libraries, to be free?”

“The Kunsthalle Detroit launches this weekend in a former Comerica bank branch at the gritty intersection of Grand River and Warren. Opening on a shoestring, the exhibition space promises to focus on multimedia, video and light-based art. Tate Osten said it’s the first museum in America dedicated solely to this mission.”

The Swiss exhibit is deeply un-Swiss (i.e., it’s deliberately anarchic and a bit shabby); the Poles turned their pavilion over to an Israeli artist; a pair of women are representing Saudi Arabia(!); the American pavilion is fronted by an upside-down Army tank; Azerbaijan’s president was so offended by his country’s two sculptures that they’re now covered by sheets.

Kenneth “Tin-Kin” Hung’s “garish and busy large paintings feature images of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders juxtaposed with icons of Western culture, such as Marilyn Monroe and the Mario Brothers (of Nintendo fame). … [But] most Western viewers will fail to understand some of the games the artist is playing. His work depends heavily on Chinese puns about internet censorship.”

“As it turns out, 30 years ago the French police reported the work stolen from a museum in Aix-les-Bains. After Ms. Davis tried to sell the print, the United States government seized it as contraband.”