Category: visual

The painting fetched a record price at Sotheby’s last spring. When it quietly went up at Steve Wynn’s Los Vegas hotel months later, it was a sign of a high-priced sale gone wrong. New York Observer

– will appoint committee to investigate whether British Museum should return the Elgin Marbles to Greece.  BBC 

AND: CBC report

Winner to be announced November 30. – The Art Newspaper

Why no women artists in the Museum of Modern Art’s first segment of its “radical rethinking” survey of modern art? Village Voice

– of modern and contemporary art.  Washington Post

Intel and the Whitney Museum team up with an interactive computer tablet to make looking at art in a museum an interactive multimedia experience.  New York Times

Tuesday, artists hung a giant “censored” sign over a billboard promoting the arts in Hartford after city officials pulled a piece of artwork from a show at a public gallery.  Hartford Courant

Incensed at a sale of his work at a British auction last week, David Hockney makes an offer to readers of a London newspaper – “I’ll send you free art if you ask.” CBC

Twice as large as Atlanta’s Georgia Dome,  wide enough to fit the Eiffel Tower laid on its side and big enough to contain 1,100 Olympic-sized swimming pools. It’s London’s new Millennial Dome, racing toward completion before the calendar changes.  Baltimore Sun
     AND: London: spectacular venue for the Millennium(Reuters) Philadelphia Daliy News 10/20/99

Canadian magazine says Haida artist Bill Reid didn’t make much of his work. The protests – the issue – is about art as money, writes one critic. Toronto Star