— dies in Seattle. He was 82. “Lawrence rose to fame in 1941 after creating one of the most original and forceful series of narrative works in the history of American art – the ‘Migration of the Negro.'” – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Category: visual
AUGMENTED REALITY
Augmented reality is a way to layer the virtual world on top of the real world, without replacing reality. Museums are experimenting – by donning a set of glasses and looking at an artifact or piece of art, images and information come to life around them. – Times of India (Reuters)
GETTING A GEELONG GUGGENHEIM
On June 29th Guggenheim Foundation director Thomas Krens meets with Australian Premier Steve Bracks to discuss the possibility of putting the next Guggenheim in Geelong. The meeting, they hope, will help decide who’s going to finance what. – The Age (Melbourne) (AAP)
CHANGING CHIEFS
Chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada to take chief curator job at New York’s Frick. – CBC
THE VIRTUAL GUGGENHEIM
About the new online Guggenheim, currently under development: “Why not, in fact, (create) an entirely new experience given this content that’s already emerging and try to push the content further?” – Wired
SOTHEBY’S MOVES TO WEB
Sotheby’s has decided to move its regular February auction to the web, given how successful the online operation has been. – New York Times
BUILDING PRACTICES
The Pritzker is often described as the Nobel Prize of architecture. But does it celebrate and boost the field of architecture, or pander to the “worst celebrity aspects of architectural practice?” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
QUAKE-PROOF
- San Francisco’s de Young Museum was damaged in the 1989 earthquake. Plans are well along to rebuild. But “if local community activists have their way, the design for the ambitious $135 million project will soon be subjected to a process that many observers believe could doom it. And although the proposed building, by acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG, has been hailed by those culturally-in-the-know as a masterpiece of contemporary Modernism, it has come in for some blistering criticism from an unexpected quarter: other architects.” – Metropolis
THE ART OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
In an attempt for broaden the appeal of British museums, the British government has given museums quotas for attracting minorities into the museums. Their public funding will depend on meeting the quotas. – NPR
TO BE YOUNG, BRITISH AND AN ARTIST —
— is to be glamorous and a celebrity. But, “is the state of British art or that of any other country where Damien Hirst’s shark-in-a-tank has been exhibited the better for it? Absolutely not.” So what is the legacy of the Young British Artists? – New York Press