Category: visual

Argentina, Chile, Mexico, the UAE and Bahrain are also in talks for new permanent spaces…

“Beset by years of financial troubles, leadership changes and a drifting sense of identity, the Corcoran Gallery of Art – Washington’s largest private art museum – is turning to a team of consultants in an attempt to chart its destiny.”

One by one, the artists took aim and shot their messages onto MOCA’s exterior — drippy, handwritten, illuminated scrawl: “Dump Deitch.” “Give us back our walls!” “War is over?” “Peace Now!” The group meticulously documented the event, with plans to upload photos and video clips to Facebook and YouTube within days.

Lindsay Pollock, a reporter for Bloomberg and the author of “The Girl with the Gallery,” about Edith Gregor Halpert, has been named editor in chief of Art in America.

“Arts professionals need to be proactive now if they want to forestall a new culture war. Anti-censorship statements on websites are fine–the AAMD released one condemning “unwarranted and uninformed censorship from politicians and other public figures”–but does the general public read such statements?”

“The Palace of Versailles, west of Paris, will have its Hotel du Grand Controle, the traditional home of the chateau’s treasurers, converted into a luxury hotel as part of a plan to pay for renovations at some of France’s historic buildings.”

“Is it a gothic cathedral, a mosque or a giant, inflatable jumping castle? These were the questions passers-by were asking about Mirazozo, a 48m long inflatable artwork, or ‘luminarium’, erected on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House. Inside, the sense of the otherworldly is even greater, as the play of natural light … combine[s] with the intricate internal structure.”

“[M]ore than skill, technique, or inspiration, the current that reverberated through the halls of [the Cloisters] and those of so many of the great museums of the world, yet so few of the places where new art is still being made and shown is nothing if not the lingering vibration of the profound and unshakable devotion of the makers. Not to God, but to the work itself.”

“The legal battle over whether the often banal ingredients of modern art, particularly light, sound and video pieces, are themselves to be regarded as art has raged for years.”

David Franklin’s “job is to lead the programs, exhibitions and acquisitions that will bring the expanded institution back to life — and justify one of the biggest cultural investments in Ohio history.”