Category: visual

“Not everyone at the fenced-in future site of the Barnes, which has been in Lower Merion for more than 80 years, was pleased with the event. About 20 protesters stood on the Parkway and at the site entrance hoisting signs in opposition.”

“In London I’m in the papers every time I blow my nose, essentially. I’ll be followed by paparazzi. I’m taught in the school curriculum in Britain. It’s actually kind of nice when I come to New York and I don’t have that recognized thing.”

“Poland’s contemporary artists have put their country on the international art map. Once a must-see for tourists interested in the tragic aspects of Europe’s past, Poland has now become an important destination for contemporary-art fans.”

“This is the biggest turnaround of any art institution, whether it is performing arts or the visual arts, if you think of all that has happened in the last year,” Eli Broad said Thursday.

“This week, those attending Christie’s and Sotheby’s evening sessions traditionally reserved for the most important works might have briefly thought that there never was a recession. No awareness of it appeared to linger in the bidders’ minds as they ran up paintings, drawings and sundry three-dimensional works to three times the estimate, or more.”

Penelope Curtis, 48, “the curator of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, takes the helm from Dr Stephen Deuchar who will leave the gallery in December after 11 years in the role. The Oxford modern history graduate is an established scholar and author with an interest in 20th-century British art.”

“The global financial crisis punctured the art bubble last year, drying up cash and driving up caution. Now the tide seems to be turning for young galleries of the East Village and Lower East Side,” which “can afford to charge less” than Chelsea galleries “because they have smaller staff and lower rent.”

“Five bidders vied for Warhol’s 1962 ‘200 One Dollar Bills’ at the Sotheby’s sale last night,” where competition for the painting “underscored returning buying confidence to the art market, pummeled a year ago by the world financial crisis.”

“Many universities have eliminated such marquee projects because of the recession. But U. of C. officials said the recession, as well as Chicago’s failure to land the 2016 Summer Olympics, had aided them by driving down demand for construction work, thus leading contractors to offer lower prices.”

“This is the essential difference between curating a collection at a museum and one at a federal agency: These are working buildings where staff and visitors … use the furniture, walk on the rugs, sleep in the four-poster beds, drink from the tea cups, write at the desk and, sometimes, break the chair when they lean back too far.”