Category: visual

— could have big repercussions for art Down Under. – Sydney Morning Herald

• Australian dealers have long suspected collusion. – The Age (Melbourne)

— reopens its front doors, redefines its mission and invites in the community. – New York Times

The Chester Beatty Library, which holds one of the greatest collections of oriental manuscripts in the world, has been a more or less well-kept secret on Shrewsbury Road in Dublin. This week the library was relocated to the newly-renovated tower in Dublin Castle where number of visitors is speculated to increase 2500%. – Irish Times

Four years ago San Francisco opened a brilliant new museum for modern art. But while SFMOMA’s building was impressive, many wondered where the art to go inside it was. Wonder no more. “In less than two years the trustees have helped the museum acquire more than $130 million worth of art by contemporary masters like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly and Mark Rothko. Their shopping habits — paying top dollar for the best available — are more aggressive than those of any museum in the world right now.” – New York Times

So what new art trend is chasing New York’s Chelsea galleries? Computers. – New York Press

— says he’ll make the dome the hottest ticket in town. After all, he helped transform EuroDisney into a success. – Times of India (AP)

Christie’s auction house has turned state’s evidence and told anti-trust investigators from the United States Justice Department about an alleged deal with Sotheby’s to limit competition on sellers’ commissions. Watch for the lawsuits to start flying. – The Telegraph (UK)

That’s how interesting the new £21 million lottery-funded Art Gallery in Walsall is. “Here, at last, is an alternative to the ever-present high-tech of Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.” – The Times (UK)

Given the profound effect the First World War had on the future of French art, it’s curious that so few attempts have been made to explore it. Now a “tentative, ultimately disappointing” show at the Museum of Modern Art. – New York Times

London’s Millennium Dome has been ailing – critics have been harsh and the crowds are staying away in droves. So the British government has sacked the Dome’s director and replaced her with a Mouseketeer – a top executive from EuroDisney. – Sunday Times (UK)

• DEPARTURE follows a series of shouting matches between Dome company executives and ministers ordered by the British Prime Minister to rescue the failing project and make it work. Relations between the company and the Government were said to have become untenable, as the Dome has turned into a major embarrassment for Tony Blair’s Labour Party. – The Telegraph (UK)
  
  
• Just how did such a project get built? And who’s to blame? (take credit?) – BBC