Category: visual

“[The museum] said Friday that the three exhibitions would be ‘Eye for the Sensual: Selections From the Resnick Collection,’ ‘Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915’ and ‘Olmec: Masterworks of Ancient Mexico.’ The museum said the shows would ‘highlight the diversity of the museum’s encyclopedic collection and programming’.”

“A new public art project involving video creations by 17 artists and art teams is currently being unveiled at Los Angeles International Airport. … Artists were asked to create site-specific works that would appear on video screens mounted on a wall or suspended from a ceiling.”

“In a finding sure to evoke concern and curiosity among curators, newly published research suggests presenting contextual information alongside a work of modern art may be counterproductive in terms of eliciting enjoyment or appreciation.”

“[It] can be difficult to judge the reputation of Henry Moore, in his own lifetime one of the most famous and wealthy artists in the world. It’s not that Moore has vanished from the public stage in the years since his death in 1986 – far from it, in fact. Moore’s problem is that he has become so ubiquitous as to become near-invisible.”

“More than 600 lots containing items such as office furniture, science exhibits and lighting fixtures” — and some art, too — “were sold in a sometimes dramatic auction held beneath a large tent on the former museum’s grounds. The museum’s art collection will be sold later.” Unless, of course, a legal challenge to the sale prevails.

Jerome Neuner’s “job — one that often goes unsung in the museum world and … unnoticed by the public — is to serve as a kind of mediator between the visionary (the grand dreams of curators and artists about how a show could look) and the practical (how the show will fit within walls, some of them load bearing).”

“The joint project will involve object conservation, earthquake protection of collections, exhibitions and more. The Getty said it will be working with the Sicilian Ministry of Culture and Sicilian Identity.” Among the plans for the project is an exhibition “explor[ing] Sicily during the Classical and Hellenistic periods – or roughly between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC.”

“As part of its ongoing 50th anniversary celebration, the museum invited nearly 200 architects, artists and designers to propose fanciful new uses for the 90-foot-high rotunda of its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building.” The curators “asked the participants, whose biggest names include Anish Kapoor, Zaha Hadid, Richard Meier, Alvaro Siza, Toyo Ito and Rachel Whiteread, to leave ‘practicality and even reality behind’.”

Hope Alswang, “who is widely credited with reviving the RISD Museum after several years of lackluster programming and sagging public interest” before resigning abruptly last summer, will be the new director of the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Fla.