Category: visual

“Contractors were preparing to create an 8,000 sq. m extension underneath Heroes’ Square where the mu­seum is situated and the museum had secured funding from the EU for the E15m project.”

“Spanish authorities have revived plans to construct the late artist Eduardo Chillida’s vast, artificial cave in a Canary Island mountain, despite concerns over potential damage to ancient engravings on the mountain’s summit.”

“Newly published research finds that, in spite of our protestations, nonexperts can tell the difference among acclaimed abstract paintings, colorful canvasses created by a nursery school students or residents of the zoo.”

“The statue is riddled with tiny cracks, particularly in the ankles of the boy warrior, and could collapse as a result of vibrations from the 1.4 billion euro project” – a high-speed rail tunnel and station to be built in the ground under central Florence.

“Despite the best efforts of Agatha Christie and her pot of face cream, many of the ivory treasures just acquired by the British Museum from the Assyrian city of Nimrud are still scorched by the fire that brought one of the great palaces of the ancient world crashing down on top of them 2,600 years ago.”

“The firm has won a tightly contested international competition to masterplan the ambitious new West Kowloon cultural district, a 40-hectare site of reclaimed land on the Kowloon waterfront that will host no fewer than 17 major cultural venues, including an opera house (watch out, Guangzhou), a museum of modern art known as M+, a 15,000-seat arena and an art school.”

“With the economy in endless hurt, the architecture of the fledgling millennium isn’t being defined by investment-heavy skyscrapers or indulgent McMansions.
Instead, it mirrors the chain stores and the fast-casual restaurants that have taken off while others tanked. The look of the recessed economy is expressed in colors: the pastels of Pinkberry, Chipotle burgundy, PetSmart blue, Subway sandwich yellow.”

“Known best for its annual No Pants Subway Ride, New York-based Improv Everywhere took a step into the high art world recently when the group arranged for King Philip IV of Spain to give autographs next to his newly restored and authenticated portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

“Toronto developers, those stalkers of the bottom line, are waking to the economic potential of heritage. One wouldn’t want to overstate the case but there are reasons for optimism.”

“Why should the gender split in design be different to the rest of the global population? But it has been. How many female designers do you see in design history books? Not many. Have things changed? Yes and no. One significant shift is in numbers. Most top design schools now have a majority of female students.”