Category: visual

Last week a big section of marble fell from the ceiling of the Medici Chapel in Florence. The chapel’s stone has eroded and the structure has now been closed. The Italian press calls it a disaster. ARTnewspaper.com

Latest round of art auctions begins in New York.  New York Times

Two sisters in North Carolina make claim on a 16th Century Madonna. CBC

– ten years after the wall comes down. It’s “one of the city’s most striking new structures.” A talk with the architect Daniel Libeskind.  CBC

“Preponderantly representational, and hung more to practical than to museum standards,” but it offers more artists the opportunity to show, and the public a wider range of work to see and buy, than any other exhibiting venue in Britain.  Financial Times

– son of the founder of the National Gallery in DC – hung out with painters. In real life he collected paintings. Now a “modest show” of some of his collection in the museum’s East Wing, which he commissioned.  Washington Post

A row over a proposed Michael Graves-designed addition to the WPA-built Arts Council of Princeton. Sometimes a building’s not just a building. New York Times

Computer design is allowing forward-thinking architects the freedom to redefine their craft. London Telegraph

Snobs with the morals of a chimpanzee. They painted like chimpanzees and poisoned the good name of modernism for the entire century. The Tate does a show. London Sunday Times

The internet has completely changed the world of collecting. From antiques to baseball cards, the good stuff is increasingly found not in the shops but online.  Hartford Courant