Category: visual

“The Sydney Opera House may be one of the best known structures in the world, but it is also a worse building than anything Gehry would want to put his name to.”

“Like other kinds of art, great buildings contradict everything else. They make us think. They start conversations, so people talk about what it means to fit in, what it means to have courage. It’s okay for some buildings not to work.”

Gregor Muir, who went from the “young British artists” (YBA) scene to curating at Tate before becoming director of one of the world’s leading galleries, Hauser & Wirth, will formally take charge on 7 February.

“Spain’s latest architectural extravagance was finally opened to the public today amid complaints that the massive new City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela is a huge and expensive white elephant.”

Mark Landis “has been one of the most prolific forgers American museums have encountered in years, writing, calling and presenting himself at their doors, where he tells well-concocted stories about his family’s collection and donates small, expertly faked works, sometimes in honor of nonexistent relatives.”

The attorney argues that Mr. Bronson holds copyright in the work owned by the National Gallery and, as such, “has the exclusive right to display the work.” While the National Gallery “enjoys certain limited rights,” Mr. Bronson hasn’t, “to our knowledge, granted or expressed any permission or license to exhibit” Felix, June 5, 1994 “to any party . . . in conjunction with” the Washington show.”

“What is perhaps most irksome about Koons’ claims on the Balloon Dog idea are deeper questions that reach beyond the law: How can an artist who became rich and famous by appropriating objects whose very everydayness is their calling card justify claiming rights in the forms of the objects he appropriates.”

For the first time in the Dalí’s history, the museum will have room to exhibit all 96 Salvador Dalí paintings in its permanent collection. The entire collection, about 1,400 works, is worth between $500 million and $700 million. Besides the galleries, the museum has a gift shop, cafe, theater and community room for rent. There are also outdoor gardens.

“A small town in northern Italy is basking in new-found celebrity after an Italian art historian claimed it featured in the background of the world’s most famous painting – Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.”

The question seems nebulous…