Category: visual

“To raise funds for the Hollywood Media Arts Academy, a program which helps at-risk youths, the Hollywood Entertainment Museum is auctioning off some interesting memorabilia including — wait for it — ruby red slippers labeled ‘MGM Wardrobe J. Garland’.”

The student, who has a piece in the current show of the Royal Scottish Academy, explained that he was less distressed by the fine than by the Collective’s dismissal of his work as “vandalism”, as the charge sheet put it. “There have got to be serious questions asked of their position as arbiters of art,” he told the Guardian.

“The new museum would be twice as high as buildings usually are in that area. It would disturb the visual experience of the part of [Oslo] where medieval and the later parts meet.”

“It’s ok for Prince Charles to be who he is, and want what he wants – God bless him for coming out of the closet and saying what he thinks … I mean some of things he likes, I like, and some of things he’s come out against, well, I’m on his side,” the architect (“I am not a ‘star-chitect'”) says.

“Masterpieces by Rubens and Van Dyck were among the treasures from the royal family of Liechtenstein’s collection, which were expected to draw huge crowds to the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) from next September. But yesterday Prince Hans-Adam II cancelled the loans,” and now the academy is scrambling.

“Einstein in E. coli, an apple tree grown from fungi and a fluorescent Mario are just some of the masterworks cast in agar jelly by creative microbiologists.”

“The problem is the same one that has plagued the museum since its downtown building reopened in November 2008 after a three-year, $28 million renovation: too many expenses, not enough money. Met officials said … donations and grants, the lifeblood of any nonprofit, privately supported museum, have slowed to a trickle.”

“‘As soon as guarantees were taken off the table, sellers became uncertain,’ said Philip Hoffman, chief executive of the London-based Fine Art Fund. ‘Clients don’t want to see big- ticket works go to public auction and fail. A lot of people turned to discreet private sales at the auction houses.'”

“Exhibiting a rotting tofu hut alongside a dragon made of underpants, Shenzhen’s third biennale of architecture glories in the dizzying excess of China’s urban growth”

“Designed by the New York firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro, the translucent fabric structure, which would be installed twice a year, for May and October, and be packed away in storage the rest of the time, would transform one of the most somber buildings on the mall into a luminous pop landmark.”