“India’s art market may be on the upswing, but the infrastructure that supports it has yet to find solid footing. An especially fragile area, collectors and gallerists say, is conservation and restoration. Despite the country’s growing appetite for indigenously produced art, there are only a handful of recognized art conservation experts.”
Category: visual
Why Frank Gehry Is Designing Office Furniture
“It’s not every day that Frank Gehry designs lobby furniture for an office building. But Mr. Gehry made an exception for the Inland Steel Building, a Chicago landmark, because he owns a part of it.”
NYU Photography Professor Embedding Camera In His Head
“The project is being commissioned by a new museum in Qatar. But the work, which would broadcast a live stream of images from the camera to museum visitors, is sparking a debate on campus over the competing values of creative expression and student privacy.”
Louvre Asks Citizens to Donate Toward Saving Painting for France
“For the first time in its 217-year history France’s celebrated Louvre museum is asking art lovers to dig deep into their pockets to raise €1m (£846,000) to buy a 16th-century masterpiece” – Les Trois Grâces (1531) by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
America’s Greatest Art Forger (And He Says He’s a Jesuit)
“Museum curators are warning of a mysterious man posing as a Jesuit priest who is suspected of duping American institutions with brilliantly forged artworks over the past 20 years. … Unlike other forgers, the ‘priest’ does not ask for payment of any kind for his Picassos, Signacs and Daumiers which have been described as ‘masterful’.”
Did Leonardo Try to Fig-Leaf Michelangelo’s David?
In a “miraculously preserved bit of his real speech, Leonardo da Vinci is caught out spitefully attempting to emasculate the greatest nude statue in the history of the world.” (Well, maybe.)
Destroying iPads for the Sake of Art
“When does an iPhone or an iPad cease to be a mere consumer gadget and enter the rarefied world of visual art? How about when someone willfully destroys it, turning it into an abstract, brutalized husk of its former self?”
Is The Contemporary Art Being Placed At Versailles Spoiling The Original Art?
The choices for Versailles’ initial exhibits seem intended to be as controversial as possible.
The World’s Greatest Prep School Art Museum
“The Addison Gallery of American Art [at Phillips Academy, Andover] is a phenomenon. Its impressive collection ranges from John Singleton Copley to Jackson Pollock, from Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion to early paintings by Frank Stella, plus extraordinary examples of the formative years of American modernism.”
New-Generation Lighting Transforms Buildings Into Art
The buildings dance and come alive with new projection.