Category: visual

“Architecture might be slow-moving compared with fashion, yet in its epochal way it can move in similar cycles. Decoration is the vogue one moment, minimalism the next… The connection between the two disciplines is age-old.”

“A former art dealer from Rhode Island who recently escaped from federal prison is heading back to a Providence courtroom… [Rocco DeSimone] was sentenced in 2005 after being convicted of evading almost $423,000 in taxes when he sold paintings by Henri Matisse and impressionists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.”

“The Vancouver Museum, tucked away in a corner of Kitsilano, far from the action of downtown… is to some people invisible and to others badly in need of an overhaul – and the people who run the place know it. Tonight, they will present a plan for the reinvention of the museum and get the ball rolling for a possible move to another site.”

“On the frontier of a new industry, [comic book] writers and artists are creating scores of characters, but publishers profiting from them. These days creators have learned from the past by self-publishing or otherwise securing the rights to their progeny. But some of the founding fathers of American superheroes are still seeking justice.”

“It is one of the most important pre-Raphaelite paintings, with as British a theme as you can imagine – yet Edward Burne-Jones’s The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon is virtually unknown in the UK. Yesterday, the monumental masterpiece was reinstalled in a British gallery – Tate Britain – for the first time in more than 40 years.”

A professor renowned for his work in returning Nazi-looted art to its rightful owners has abruptly resigned from an important post at Claremont McKenna College after being accused of trying to extort a cash payment in exchange for locating a looted Pissarro painting. The professor is denying any wrongdoing.

While most graffiti crews use spray paint to mark buildings and urban infrastructure, Roth and Powderly, the artists behind the Graffiti Research Lab, have perfected a unique form of temporary high-tech graffiti they call laser tagging that utilizes a laser pointer in lieu of paint, a projector in place of a spray.

When John Kaldor gave the Art Gallery of New South Wales his $35 million collection of modern art he set off waves of speculation about the politics behind the gift…

“There might be a feeling that the £100,000 museum of the year prize – by some distance the richest in UK arts – has yet to generate the buzz of the Turner or Booker prize. Locally, however, the unfurling of the giant pink Art Fund banners at each of the contenders has become a very big deal indeed.”

“The British Museum is to give new currency to Babylon’s legends with a major exhibition including details of how American and coalition troops have wrecked priceless archaeological remains in the ancient city during the occupation of Iraq.”