“Was minimalism the last absurd, exhausted spasm of neophilia, the cult of the new that so defined modern taste? Or is it still, and will it remain, the ultimate refinement of aesthetic sensibility: the place we go when we have been everywhere else? The answer to both questions is yes.”
Category: visual
Woman Attacks Artwork In Denver Gallery
“A woman armed with a crowbar entered the Loveland Museum/Gallery on Wednesday afternoon and destroyed a controversial exhibit that some said shows Jesus Christ engaged in a sex act.”
Architecture’s New Rock Star? Newfoundlander Todd Saunders
“Hooked. On architecture. That’s what you’ll be feeling after the Fogo Island arts colony is done with you. A series of pavilions cut like shards of volcanic stone are being constructed off the coast of Newfoundland at the edge of the raging Atlantic.”
That Calder Mobile in the Old Sears Tower? Sears Wants It Back
“Alexander Calder’s motorized art installation, The Universe, has become the subject of a legal dispute between the current owner [of the skyscraper now called the Willis Tower] – a Chicago-based investor group called 233 S. Wacker LLC – and the tower’s original owner, Sears, Roebuck & Co.”
The Blockbuster Show That Proved A Spectacular Bust
It was this summer’s feature at the Art Gallery of Ontario. “The costly show, including works from the Musée d’Orsay and the Louvre in Paris, had been expected to draw crowds to The Grange from mid-June until late September. It didn’t The upshot: Not just a huge revenue shortfall but an alarmingly low attendance figure for the first six months of the current fiscal year.”
Paris Decides Larry Clark’s Photos of Teens Are for Adults Only
“US photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark attacked a minimum 18 age-restriction on an exhibition of his work due to open in Paris as an attack by the older generation on teenagers. … Clark’s influential work as a photographer and as a film-maker has focussed on teenage culture. They are an often unflinching look at sex, nudity and drug use.”
NY State Ban On Selling Museum Artwork Expires Amid Criticism
When the New York State Board of Regents met last month to consider making permanent a set of temporary regulations that bar the sale of artwork by museums to cover expenses, approval was widely considered a fait accompli. Instead…
Court Takes Closer Look At Norton Simon Museum’s Cranach
“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week signed into law a new art-theft bill that doesn’t mention the Holocaust but gives all claims seeking the return of stolen art from museums, galleries and dealers a better shot at withstanding the legal argument that they were filed too late.”
UK Art Critics Weigh In On This Year’s Turner Finalists
“This year’s Turner Prize feels haunted by a mood of wistful nostalgia. Contributors go back over the past to look for ideas that, like small change that has slipped between sofa cushions, have been lost for a while in the interstices of culture.”
Empty Room And Broken Painting – A Walk Through The Turner Prize Art
The annual show featuring finalists for the Turner Prize.