Category: visual

“After three decades, to stay much further would be to skirt decency. This has not been an easy decision — it’s wrenching for me, it’s been my entire life. But it’s time.”

“The painting were found undamaged and covered in plastic, leaning against a wall inside a house on the outskirst of Sao Paulo after one of the suspects led authorities to the home.”

“It’s true that in the past, when asked, ‘What are you going to do?’ I said we will give the collection to one or several museums. The collection was significantly smaller then. Now it’s 2,000 works and we are continuing to collect, so we started to think about our options. One is to build our own museum as others have done. We chose not to do that. But we were concerned that if we gave our collection to one or several museums, 90% or so would be in storage all the time.”

A sculpture honoring Benjamin Britten in a village in the UK has been vandalized 11 times. “The problem is that the list of potential suspects is just too long. More than 1,000 locals hate the Scallop, the controversial, 12ft high, steel artwork created by artist Maggi Hambling, which has bitterly divided the town since it was erected four years ago.”

Finalists for the showcase art in London include “a burnt-out car from Iraq and a replica of Nelson’s ship in a glass bottle.”

“Eli Broad, the billionaire financier and philanthropist whose private collection of some 2,000 works of Modern and contemporary art is one of the most sought-after by museums nationwide, has decided to retain permanent control of his works in an independent foundation that makes loans to museums rather than give any of the art away.”

“Another Da Vinci code is emerging from Leonardo’s masterpieces, according to a forthcoming book by group of Da Vinci theorists who believe that biblical images are hidden within the master’s artworks.”

“Art market experts are concerned that new taxes on asset gains for overseas investments, coupled with a planned flat £30,000 ($60,000) levy for foreign residents, domiciled in the UK for over seven years, will put pressure on London’s appeal as a centre for buying art.”

“Foreign tourists will benefit, but the aim is to draw more French residents into the 18 museums, which include the Centre Pompidou and Quai Branly in Paris and the Marine Museum in Toulon.”

The “inning design was not so much a compromise between all three as a combination of them all. It is a 48m tall, irregular structure inspired, perhaps, by a handful of Play-Doh being splatted on to tarmac by an insurgent Russian military vehicle. A floppy jellyfish of coruscating triangular tiles sits above a podium of white marble.”