Category: visual

“It is impossible to conceive of the history of art in exclusion from that of architecture. If you were writing about the Baroque style, or the Arts and Crafts movement, or any other major cultural era: just to write about paintings and sculpture and ignore the buildings they were created for would be to trivialise the subject. It’s the same today.”

Anonymous sources said Eli Broad favors the firm to design his art museum, but they “cautioned that Broad could still change his mind and pursue a design by one of the other architects,” particularly if the Diller Scofidio plan proved too costly. First, of course, he has to get approval for the downtown L.A. site.

“Launched by the nonprofit group Reboot, which seeks to update Jewish traditions, the competition invites entrants to grapple with the highly detailed, Old Testament rules governing sukkah construction, and reimagine those limits ‘as the foundation for new liberties and abilities.'”

“An anthropologist by training, [Johnnetta Betsch] Cole had little experience with the museum world. Instead, she has a track record of turning around educational institutions. Even so, no one is surprised by the bold steps Cole has taken, even in times of financial struggle at an underrated institution,” the National Museum of African Art.

“As NYU has grown from a local college to a globally known research and teaching powerhouse, the Village has struggled to survive the university’s strikingly tin ear for history and architecture. NYU seems to forget that the youthful urban vitality and diversity of the Village and its surrounding neighborhoods are central to its appeal.”

“Self-publishing is not a new development in photography, but recently the trend to make, edit, design and produce your own photobook seems to have become an underground phenomenon.”

“Brandeis University is raising eyebrows in the museum world with its plans to lend out artworks for money, but exploring this option is a reasonable way to preserve the financially strapped school’s collection.”

“Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus–the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe’s sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.”

“The minute I saw the Paris heist in the news, I knew Turbo Paul would be psyched: traffic to Art Hostage would spike, his brain would rev high and he would get to peddle innuendo and what he presents as underworld intelligence.”

“It’s a sculpture, one of the most successful public-arts pieces in Seattle. It’s a bit irresponsible and irreverent in the same way the music it represents was. It’s gutsy. Seattle needs a few buildings like that — just not too many.”