Category: visual

— clustered on a London street, an upstart arrived a half-dozen years ago. Jay Jopling’s Cube Gallery has brought worldwide attention to some of the most talked-about artists on the British art scene, including many of those in the “Sensation” show, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum last fall. His reaction to the Brooklyn flap? “That was great! You’d pay a million dollars to get publicity on that scale!” – ARTnews

“The practice of abstractionism has failed to engage creatively with the radical change in human experience in recent decades; it has, seemingly, been unwilling to re-invent itself in relation to the systems of artistic expression and viewer expectation that have developed under the impact of the mass media.” Like their confreres elsewhere in the world, abstractionists in India are asking themselves an overwhelming question today: Does abstractionism have a future? – Art News In India

A Tokyo Gap may be indistinguishable from one in New York. But there’s still hope to recover from global blandishment. The future of international design, say designers, is local identity. – Metropolis

• Thirty-nine design experts give examples: London, Stockholm, New York, Sydney, Tokyo. Los Angeles

Suddenly a number of art sellers have made major investments to get online. Will selling art online be a success? Hard to tell since no one even really has a good idea what the conventional art market is worth. – ARTnews

With Bilbao a hit and expansion planned for Venice, the Guggenheim eyes its next move. This time the focus is on South America. São Paulo, perhaps? – ARTnews