Category: visual

The woman “was arrested in August while posing for photographer Zach Hyman who has gained recent notoriety for his photos of nude models posing at New York landmarks, snapping shots of naked New Yorkers (all volunteers) from Times Square to Chinatown for his portrait series.”

“How do you acquire or display a work of performance art that exists only in the form of an instruction sheet? What should conservators do about works that are deteriorating because they were made from unstable materials, such as neon, or sharks? If you want to exhibit a huge work of conceptual art,” should you have it shipped or “just get permission to make a copy?”

“I don’t remember that after the first showing of Damien Hirst’s shark in formaldehyde … any of the critics shared their views on shark-fin soup, or revealed whether they shop from the Marine Conservancy endangered-species list.” So why have some male critics, reviewing the red-light district reproduction at the National Gallery, spilled about their sex lives?

“No architects have been more deeply or visibly embroiled … than the Swiss team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron” in the struggle “to figure out the right balance between architectural expression and the need to showcase art.” Their design for the Miami Art Museum “breaks [outmoded] forms apart and then pieces them back together to create something wholly new.”

At Oregon State University, chemists “created a new, durable and brilliantly blue pigment by accident. The researchers were trying to make compounds with novel electronic properties, mixing manganese oxide, which is black, with other chemicals and heating them to high temperatures.”

The Lower East Side’s Eldridge Street Synagogue, a National Historic Landmark built in 1887, “reopened in 2007 after a 20-year restoration, but there were no available records of the original window.” So, with the blessing of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the duo “will reimagine the window.”

“The church considered selling its pews; it had an appraiser value its bell. It also has three other stained-glass windows that church records say are Tiffany designs but which are not signed and are difficult to authenticate. The St. John window with its Tiffany Studios insignia was by far the most valuable and seemed the logical choice.”

“The proposed sculpture would consist of a 70-foot locomotive suspended from a 161-foot-tall crane. Three times a day — at noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. — the train will blow its whistle, puff steam and move its wheels, first accelerating and then slowing down.”

“Before the Sistine Chapel meeting, the invited artists are being taken on a guided tour of this collection which includes works by Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Matisse and Georges Rouault. They will be gently encouraged to make a gift of one of their works to the Vatican collection.”

“The Waterfalls flowed in the East River. The Gates snaked through Central Park. Now New York’s latest large-scale public art project is being exhibited in an even unlikelier space: your wallet.”