Category: visual

The Whitney Museum teams up with Intel to explore how artists might use computers and the web. Wired

Coming soon to New York’s 5th Ave – and immune from mayoral sanction – the Museum of Sex. Philadelphia Inquirer

New York’s Radio City Music Hall has always been a fantasy palace. It’ll be even more so after reopening after a seven-month, $70 million restoration. New York Times

Edvard Munch’s Madonna will be on the auction block Thursday. Most major Munches are owned by museums, so this is an unusual opportunity But who could afford it? London Times

Rather than putting a century of American art in some sort of revealing context, the Whitney Museum’s enormous project “The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000,” is superficial  – nothing less than “the culmination of a century of suspender-snapping cultural nationalism” writes New York Magazine. New York Magazine

The Liverpool Biennial – Britain’s first – is a shambles. But it’s a start. London Sunday Times

Where? In Liverpool of all places. Does the world need another biennial? The Irish Times sizes up the landscape. Irish Times 10/1/99

Museum shows make the art in them more valuable. The tangled relationship between collectors, dealers and museums. New York Times

Mary Boone, “Queen of the Art World” says it was an attack on the First Amendment. New York Times
     PREVIOUSLY: Mary Boone, a prominent New York art dealer is arrested for “distributing live ammunition” and having unlicensed guns in her gallery as part of a Tom Sachs show. Also resisting arrest. Gallery visitors were encouraged to take 9 MM cartridges home as souvenirs. 
New York Times 9/30/99

– for new annex for the Air and Space Museum. New annex will be four times the size of current A&S building on the National Mall. Washington Post