Category: visual

New museum in a 17th Century customs house will be only steps away from the Guggenheim Collection already in Venice.  CBC

That’s how much last week’s London art auctions took in, well above last year’s £38 million.  London Telegraph

An Ontario police department decides to sell off the art in its station to buy exercise equipment. A critic wonders if this is an aberration or reflects a national attitude towards art.  Toronto Globe and Mail

Kosovar artists say living in exile is killing their work.  The Observer

Paris’ celebration of the dawn of 1900 attracted 50 million people in seven months and helped shape the present day city. The Royal Academy’s new show will look again at the state of art 100 years ago, and to look at it in the same way that contemporaries saw it at the Exposition Universelle. That is, not yet sorted, winnowed and neatly docketed by generations of art historians.  London Telegraph

It’s been two years since the Getty opened its hilltop acropolis. The crowds have thinned a bit, the museum has acquired some astonishing pieces, and all eyes are fixed on the future.  Washington Post

Not quite. It’s been a good year for selling art. But selling it online hasn’t exactly gotten customers’ pulses racing. Still, that hasn’t stopped the ambitions.  Financial Times

Telling American history through its art is a deeply personal story. So what now should be the role of a museum of American art, asks the director of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.  American Art

In the old days, museum directors usually came from the ranks of academics and curators who had proven themselves amidst the collections. Now, with higher stakes and more complex business decisions to be made, the top job requires professional managers and those with the ability to market and promote. London’s V&A is a case in point.  Financial Times

Sale of the late designer’s art collection brings in $66 million in London.  San Francisco Examiner