Category: visual

“The works will significantly expand what is acknowledged to be an incomplete and spotty collection at the museum… While at any time only about 2 percent of the museum’s total collection is on display, “in the modern collection probably 90 percent of our B-plus and better works are on view.”

This kind of clay was used in those times. And we can say that these figures are life- sized, like the originals. But they are not originals.”

In Canada you endow a curator’s chair. A $2 million gift has made it possible. The endowment will enable the Ottawa gallery to collect more contemporary works of indigenous art

A “Caravaggio expert who has studied the newly found painting, said the work is true to Caravaggio’s style, and X-rays have confirmed it is an original by revealing the lead-laced sketch that was drawn to outline the painting.”

Janice and Henri Lazarof have given the museum 130 works by major artists, LACMA officials said this week. The gift includes 20 works by Pablo Picasso spanning 65 years, seven figurative sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti, and two versions of Constantin Brancusi’s signature bronze, “Bird in Space.”

“Are star architects really con men? Do they care more about the art of architecture and their own fame than the needs of the ordinary folk who inhabit their buildings? Even as our culture celebrates these stars and their iconoclastic creations, they are often resented — sometimes for good reason.”

“The 52-year-old Koons, the world’s priciest living artist, will exhibit 12 to 15 works that may include “Split-Rocker,” which is owned by French billionaire Francois Pinault.”

“The NGA has engaged in talks to acquire the Federal Trade Commission building, which is located directly across Constitution Avenue from the NGA’s John Russell Pope-designed West Building.”

Some 43,000 people attended. “The 200 galleries from 30 countries were selected from 850 applicants — the most the fair has received since it launched in December 2002. Art works by more than 2,000 artists were exhibited for sale inside the Convention Center and in shipping containers retrofitted for gallery space in Collins Park.”

Jerry Saltz says it was Matthew Barney. What made all this so great, in addition to Barney’s relentless attempt to plumb his own inner cathedral, was how homemade and speculative the whole thing was. There were more art-student types there than art-world A-listers.