Category: visual

“Along with Montgomery County government, the citizens’ group was fighting to keep one of the world’s premier collections of Impressionist art from moving to Philadelphia despite what Albert C. Barnes ordered in his will before he died in 1951.”

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have been selected to design an ambitious new museum of modern art in Calcutta (Kolkata) scheduled to open in 2013. They were chosen from a shortlist which included Frank Gehry (US) and David Adjaye (UK).

A prominent Mexican businessman says that the Guggenheim’s Thomas Krens “insisted on a project comparable to the Guggenheim Bilbao, with a $170m construction budget and a $20m fee to the Guggenheim, both of which are far more than the government and private backers in Mexico could afford.”

“The Copyright Office proposal would have a disproportionately negative, even catastrophic, impact on the ability of painters and illustrators to make a living from selling copies of their work. This is because–unlike books, songs and films–works of visual art lack universally accepted titles that permit searching by name. And, the number of works by most artists typically exceeds the output of novelists, composers or script writers.”

A 1954 Picasso became the most expensive painting sold at auction in Australia when it went under the hammer Tuesday for $6.9 million.

“The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100. But experts have confirmed “Rembrandt Laughing” — bought for a bargain price of $4.5 million at an English auction house in October — is a self-portrait by the Dutch master himself.”

More than any other American building, the home of the Yale School of Architecture holds a special, numinous place in the hearts of architects throughout the world. Now it’s being freshened

The court papers say that, as no auction house will sell the painting as a Basquiat without the committee’s authenticity, its value is “less than $5,000” rather than “at least $3m” that the papers say it could command as an authentic Basquiat.

“I think I’ve been emboldened to collect folk art because I have an unwavering confidence in my taste, something I wouldn’t claim when discussing, say, fine art or music. Long before Malcolm Gladwell celebrated the genius of impulse in “Blink,” I decided that gut instinct was the only way to go in collecting, whether the object costs a dollar or a thousand dollars.”

“The Henson matter has raised the awareness of many in the community as to the power and importance of artistic freedoms, the vulnerability of children, the growing dangers our children face in their youth, the growing need to prioritise their protection in this increasingly technological world and the failure of the law to do just that.”