Category: visual

“Dorothy M. Kosinski, a curator and administrator at the sprawling Dallas Museum of Art, has been named director of the [Washington, D.C.-based] Phillips Collection, becoming the third official outside the Phillips family to lead the modern art facility.”

No one remembers whatever it was that Tracey Emin was nominated for in 1999 — she didn’t win — but everybody can recall the soiled and unmade bed she showed in the exhibition. This time, it’s the other way around.

“Each black-and-white digital print is a mug shot-style diptych in which a member of the Bush administration appears in profile and face forward, holding a police identification sign and the date on which he or she made a statement of questionable veracity relating to Iraq.”

“The New Museum could be the kind of institutional anchor downtown that Dia was in Chelsea before it closed its 22nd Street building four years ago and left for the suburbs. But can they do that in this building? Not to sound like an ingrate or be a buzz-kill, but I believe the museum, cool-looking as it is, is short on exhibition space.”

“Wallinger first made the shortlist in 1995, but lost out to Damien Hirst. He was favourite to win the prize for his £90,000 installation, which recreates everything from Brian Haw’s protest in Parliament Square in 2001.”

“The museum’s design is calm, even strait-laced. Entirely free of decoration, the concrete, glass and marble building nevertheless plays a number of clever structural games.”

Ireland’s equivalent of the National Trust has denounced the band U2 for its plans to partly demolish and redevelop a hotel they own by the river Liffey in Dublin. The new “U2 Tower”, designed by Norman Foster, at 32 stories, would be the highest building in Ireland.

The Canadian government is “cancelling a service that carries art and artifacts to public museums and galleries across the country, leaving some curators worried they won’t be able to display non-local pieces anymore.”

“Quietly at first, but in the limelight now thanks to Basel’s glam, Miami’s booming visual-arts scene in the last decade has been transforming the character of the city from a mecca of fun and sun to a leading cultural destination. Art is helping to define Miami’s identity, shaping its soul at a crucial moment in the region’s development.”

“Richard Serra, previously the arch-villain of art, has gone mainstream. He has been accepted by the general public as a kind of modern old master, and, such treatment is only fitting, because that is exactly what he is.”