Category: visual

“In general, … Chicago is not floating plans for major infrastructure improvements, like those that transformed Barcelona for the 1992 Games. Nor is it proposing grand architectural statements, like the Bird’s Nest from the 2008 Games in Beijing.”

“[I]t’s not that great women artists do not exist. It is that men are very good at finding new reasons to underrate them. We didn’t rule the world for millennia without being pretty ingenious when it comes to preserving our territory.”

“[T]here’s no telling when those paintings and sculptures might be exhibited in a new wing – or even when we might know who the architect might be.”

“This shiny, glass-sheathed tower — the seventh tallest building in the world, the tallest in America since the 1974 completion of Sears Tower and the tallest structure its height-obsessed developer has ever built — meets the ground superbly and touches the sky weakly.”

The organizer of the Nov. 8 installation, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall and originally slated for daytime, “said that the time was changed for the ‘Wall Across Wilshire’ … because the event was beginning to take on a ‘block party, street event’ quality rather than a historical one.”

“Sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s International and Phillips de Pury of ‘Part I’ works during the week of the Frieze Art Fair are estimated to fetch at least 20.8 million pounds ($33.1 million),” down 81 percent from last year.

Without Friday’s agreement between the museum and collectors Doris and Donald Fisher, “the shock of Mr. Fisher’s death on Sunday would have been far more traumatic. One [of] his most ardent wishes concerning his public legacy – the prominent, and local, display of his artwork – will be fulfilled.”

“Tate Modern is to recreate an exhibition universally condemned as racist by critics when it was in New York.”

The national Museums Association has warned the city of Southampton to reconsider selling more than £5m worth of what the council calls “the family artwork” – a Rodin sculpture and a painting by Alfred Munnings – to help fund a museum devoted to the Titanic.

“Placing the Fishers’ collection of 1,100 contemporary artworks – one of the finest in private hands anywhere – at the museum will put SFMOMA in the league of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London.”