Category: visual

“How cool is it to see how the fog seems to lap against the mountains like waves on a beach, and how much it churns and boils overhead? Who knew it was so animated?”

“A cartoon depicting the Danish royal family taking part in an orgy has led to the cancellation of a retrospective of works by satirical Danish artist duo Surrend (consisting of Jan Egesborg and Pia Bertelsen).”

“Gagosian, who represents some of the giants of modern and contemporary art in New York, Los Angeles and London, said the new gallery, near the Champs Elysees avenue, was a sign that Paris’s flagging art market was picking up.”

“The survival of the Chelsea Art Museum is in doubt amid a battle over control of its home, with a lender and the owner each claiming the right to sell the property. The lender … took over the deed to the West 22nd Street building last week after the owner failed to meet a bankruptcy-court deadline, public property records show.”

“‘The Art of Scent: 1889-2011’ will present examples of more than a dozen perfumes that have helped to define the lucrative aroma industry. The scents will be wafted around the museum’s second-floor galleries by atomizers” in a specially designed gallery space.

“The federal Appeals Court in Boston has found that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston owns a valuable 1913 painting by expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, ruling that the statute of limitations had run out on an Austrian woman’s assertion that she was the rightful owner.”

“The database combines records from the US National Archives, the German Bundesarchiv and records on repatriation and restitution held by the French government.”

“It is the extravagant [palace] setting in which his psychedelic creations make most sense; where a plastic mushroom with a multi-million price tag seems, well, at home.”

“Chinese artist Ai Weiwei carpeted the floor of the Turbine Hall with 100 million porcelain seeds and invited the public to walk across them.” Or even roll around in them. But all those people crunchng against all those seeds stirred up an awful lot of porcelain dust – stirring up, in turn, an awful lot of concern about breathing all that dust in.

“It is especially tough to be a graffiti artist in Russia,” says one curator.”The state invests millions of rubles in hunting down graffiti artists and painting over the works.” But those who can convince skeptical authorities that they are legitimate artists and not vandals are finally getting a support structure to work with.