Category: visual

An artist famed for his illegal work is invited to show at a museum but subsequently arrested for his artistic endeavours. The police clampdown “became almost like a carnival game, like shooting fish in a barrel”, according to Monica LoCascio, author of the Stickers street art books and arts editor of Paper magazine online.

“Harald Szeemann, the famed Swiss art curator, left behind a trove of documents, books and correspondence when he died in 2005. His personal archive, which cut a scholarly swath through much of 20th century Western art, will have a new home at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, starting in September.”

“Allora & Calzadilla’s work in [the US pavilion at] the Biennial is part of a growing trend: artists representing their countries at the Venice Biennale in unorthodox ways or resisting the idea of national representation altogether.”

“The California-born Marclay took the juried prize on the weekend for The Clock, his now-famous video/art installation/time piece comprised of thousands of clips from hundreds of films that runs for 24 consecutive hours.”

More than four decades down the road from his early triumph, Safdie is at a crossroads. The challenge, he says, is “to solve the extraordinary problems that face us, like sustainability, congestion, density, mega­scale, transportation issues, and integration into the urban fabric.”

“According to an in-house memo, New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff is ‘moving on’ at the end of this month … ‘to write a book about the architectural and cultural history of the last 100 years’.”

“In a series of public art installations, artist Maya Barkai is exploring the different representations of the universal man (or, in some cases, woman)” seen on public signage all over the world.

Is the Autry legally obligated to run the Southwest Museum as well as its main site in Griffith Park?

“In Hong Kong … people in the art world are constantly mentioning how free their speech is or else using a symbol to prove it – [imprisoned artist] Ai Weiwei … [One] might almost get the impression China was not just to the north and three decades away from total control. Outside the art fair, alongside the Hong Kong flag, flies China’s. Ai is everywhere.”