Category: visual

“So far, more than $60,000 has been raised from metro Detroit and many other countries through the Kickstarter page set up by Imagination Station, a nonprofit that’s building a creative campus in Corktown. The fund-raising was set to officially end on Saturday. Detroit artist Jerry Paffendorf, who’s involved in the statue drive, said he hopes a 10-foot-tall replica of RoboCop will be completed this summer.”

“Log on to the site and a series of animated lines begin to crisscross the page, mimicking the city’s train routes (as depicted in Vignelli’s 1972 map) over the course of 24 hours. Each time two trains intersect, you hear the sound of a note being plucked on a cello — turning the visuals into an abstract musical improvisation.”

“Seven years after abandoning Daniel Libeskind’s provocative Spiral extension plan, the V&A has announced a fresh proposal: a ‘new public space’ for London above a huge underground gallery for temporary exhibitions.” The design by British architect Amanda Levete is expected to cost £35 million.

The institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has withdrawn “its bid to buy an important pair of 1949 murals from a historic building in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles and relocate them to Washington” after protests led to a local effort to keep the works in California.

Last year, Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust drew the highest price ever for a painting at auction. Now “Tate Modern has The Most Expensive Painting on view, thanks to the anonymous owner and widespread press coverage of the loan. So now we can go along to Bankside and ask a somewhat crude question: is it worth the money?”

It’s Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s new Soumaya Museum. “It would take four more museums of the same size to house the entire collection of Mr Slim’s conglomerate, Grupo Carso. It includes 70,000 pieces that span almost 10 centuries.”

“Egyptian officials said Friday 800 priceless artifacts were still missing after armed robbers raided a warehouse near the canal city of Ismailiya in the unrest following a popular revolt.”

“This is our history and there are goats all over it. We have no government, so how can you expect a place like this to be protected?”

“The Museum’s bid – submitted in late 2010 – was in keeping with its strong commitment to obtaining historic and culturally significant works of art on behalf of the American people for exhibition in the nation’s capital and on national tours.”

“In Tokyo, which has been lucky enough to suffer little structural damage, museums and galleries, many of which closed immediately after the disaster, are now beginning to schedule reopening dates.”