Category: visual

Yes, the Federal Reserve board has its own art collection. “Rather than being predictable, Mr. Bernanke’s stylistic choices at the Fed changed three times during my years at the Fed. His willingness to try different styles and periods of art was indeed the mark of a man who could be creative, innovative and flexible.”

A new blog will allow art lovers to follow the restoration, step by step, of Dutch post impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh’s famous “The Bedroom”, the Van Gogh Museum said Thursday.

“At the forefront of a growing number of bands that [yoke] together artistic and musical practices, the Lucky Dragons have performed at several museums, including the Whitney in New York and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Like kindred local spirits Los Elegantes and My Barbarian, or Yacht from Portland, Ore., they view performance, visual art and music as one seamless expression.”

A pair of lawsuits filed this week detail a swindle that appears to have cost the Philadelphia Museum of Art $1.5 million.

“In the past, performance artists have often sold photographic or video documentation of performances, say, or props and other artifacts left over after the events. But Tino Sehgal is believed to be the first to have sold the rights to the performance itself.”

“Plans are solidifying for what is being billed as a ‘hemis-fair,’ with discussions on politics, culture and ideas drawing leaders from across North and South America.”

“Four years after showing off plans for a glitzy $80 million building on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, organizers of the New Center for Arts and Culture have decided to abandon those plans, leaving yet another empty space on the sprawling tract created by the Big Dig.”

“A lot of great collectors talk about themselves as mere custodians of the work they collect. Should the fact that someone has deep enough pockets to buy a lot of great art give him an absolute right to control the circumstances in which the work is seen, even after he is dead?”

“For years convicted art thief Myles J. Connor Jr. boasted that he knew who committed the brazen art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and could help recover the masterpieces. Last summer, federal prosecutors decided to find out if he actually knew anything.”

The school itself lasted only 14 years, spent in three different cities. Yet its teachers included some of the great names of 20th-century art and design (Gropius, Kandinsky, Schlemmer, Mies Van Der Rohe, Klee). And its ideas are all round us: “Go into any IKEA superstore and you will see a sort of Bauhaus-Lite: knock-down shelving, lightweight furniture, geometrical lamps, bright colors, abstract patterns.”