“His followers and collaborators assume the Boston-area paintings are part of his promotional campaign for his movie. It may not be a coincidence that other Banksy-style street pieces have been showing up in select cities, from San Francisco to Toronto, where the documentary [‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’] is playing.”
Category: visual
Bay Area Weighs Its Architectural Options
“The market in architectural futures is one way to make sense of the current hunt for firms to design the new wing of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and, across the bay, a new home for the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Experience is important but so is cachet. And if your building opens as your architect’s reputation crests – ka-ching!”
Nat’l Museum of Catholic Art & History Quietly Went Under
“The Catholic museum was never a prominent cultural attraction. But its short life in New York is a parable of what can go wrong in the distribution of public funds for the arts. From the outset, the museum was an improbable pursuit.”
CBGB’s Bathroom To Be Reborn In Connecticut
At Hartford’s venerable Wadsworth Atheneum museum, artist Justin Lowe “plans to recreate the graffiti-covered restroom of the defunct CBGB punk rock club,” the Manhattan mainstay that closed in 2006.
The New Graphic Arts – Blowing Up Illustration
“Graphic design used to be this robust thing where designers wore red spectacles and talked about business. But now there’s been this extraordinary explosion where they are speaking the language of self-expression and personal projects.”
An ENORMOUS Battle Of Britain Memorial?
“The 116 metre tall landmark building is planned for The Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, north west London, and would be almost 10 metres taller than the famous clock tower at the Palace of Westminster.”
Oakland Museum Rethinks How It Interacts With Its Community
It’s about having a different relationship that goes where the audience is…
Starchitect Takes On The Theatre
“Architects working in the theater is not unheard of, but it isn’t common, either. But it is a rarity for rich and famous architects such as Santiago Calatrava, who works in a jet-set world of big budgets and tight schedules, to spend serious time designing for the ephemeral forms of theater, dance or opera.”
New Dynamic Duo Lights Up Boston’s Contemporary Art Scene
“In January, Jill Medvedow, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, lured Helen Molesworth, curator of contemporary art at Harvard Art Museum, to head up the ICA’s programming. The two make an unlikely duo — more Abbott and Costello than Thelma and Louise.”
New Fighting Over Brandeis’ Rose Museum
“After months of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, the battle over the Rose Art Museum is again going public”