Category: visual

Government still holds 13,000 pieces of art taken through forced sales, confiscation, theft and pillage, from Jews and the countries conquered by the Nazis.  The Art Newspaper

Gary Garrels leaves chief curator job at SF-MOMA for curatorship of paintings and drawings at NY-MOMA.  San Francisco Chronicle

– nine sumptuous new galleries.  Hartford Courant (AP)

Museum of Modern Art director lays out his museum’s case on two Egon Schiele paintings looted by the Nazis. “Nobody wants to have works of art that are tainted.”  Toronto Globe and Mail

London’s Millennial Dome is a theme park for the masses, a jumble of architectural styles. Echoes of the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition of 1851.  London Telegraph

Virtual reality technology, some of it borrowed from the military, is being used by architects for urban planning models – a new way to see cities that transcends models and blueprints.  New York Times

“Funny how the minute an ultracool architect like Frank Gehry comes to town, some folks get maniacally insecure and start up with the talk about how utterly uncool Washington is.”  Washington City Paper

So why, in the land of the birth of the skyscraper, are the latest tall buildings so dreadful?  Chicago Tribune

Guggenheim Museum will do an Armani show – but museum failed to reveal the designer had pledged a $15 million gift to the museum. New York Times

– stolen by the Nazis.  Toronto Globe and Mail