Category: visual

Hot names to surprises – the artists who made the cut with the curatorial team choosing next March’s Whitney Biennial.   New York Times

• The list

– at London auction.  BBC

– a major new Michael Graves-designed home for theater.  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It’s as American as Huck Finn. When Seattle artist Michael Spafford added his version of the Hercules labors to the Washington state legislature’s neo-baroque chamber, lawmakers were scandalized and had them covered, then removed after years of controversy.  The Oregonian

Earlier this fall, prominent New York art dealer Mary Boone was arrested after her gallery gave out live ammunition accompanying a show by artist Tom Sachs. Her brush with New York’s legal system was a “kind of interesting adventure,” she says.   New York Times

Gary Hume is the UK’s latest new thing, and galleries and museums are lining up for a chance at his work. But his “woeful, inadequate, flat” work leaves one reviewer perplexed as to what all the fuss is about.  Financial Times

– to go at auction. BBC

Last month’s sky-high prices at New York art auctions are on everyone’s minds going into this week’s London sales.  London Telegraph

Chinese scroll at the Metropolitan Museum is accused of being fake. Now a trial to decide. If real, the Met will own one of the most important Chinese paintings in any collection. New York Times

Curators at Washington’s National Gallery have some serious explaining to do. Six years ago they convinced one of America’s richest men to buy 28 Georgia O’Keeffe watercolors for $5.5 million. Now those curators say the paintings are worthless.  Washington Post