Category: visual

There’s a sizable chunk of French Modernism sitting at the bottom of a Danish fjord. “Flooded Modernity” is a faithful 1:1 mock-up of a corner of the French architect-idealist Le Corbusier’s 1927 modernist masterpiece, Villa Savoye. Conceived by Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsenfor the Vejle Art Museum’s Floating Art Festival, Havsteen-Mikkelsen says his work is a commentary on his disillusionment with the current political climate

“The condemned work, entitled 9 Stages in the Decomposition of the Leader, is a print of nine time-lapse digital images showing an official portrait of the Russian president over a seed box, with each image documenting the disintegration of Putin’s portrait as grass grows through. … [This] may be the first recent case of Russian authorities ordering the destruction of a specific work of art.”

“A huge haul of paintings, etchings and prints are unaccounted for – with the authorities at the House blaming database errors but admitting they do not know whether they have been stolen.”

While preparing a major exhibition of Western works in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, guest curator Mattijs Visser found ten works by Picasso in addition to the two the museum had registered. He thinks more surprises may come to light in the collection as he continues work on the show, which opens next February.

The Newseum, which also sells MAGA and FBI hats to make money, had a T-shirt reading “You Are Very Fake News” in its physical and online gift shops. “‘I think it’s obviously intended as a joke,’ Robert MacNeil, an author and a Newseum trustee emeritus, said Friday. ‘I don’t think it’s a great joke.'”

Planners, objectors and developers tend to agree that tall buildings can be intrinsically fine things. What matters, they all say, is that they are well designed and in the right place. The precise meaning of this bland statement is unfortunately also the thing on which no one can agree – it becomes an increasingly threadbare banner under which planning battles are fought. Projects with ever more vaporous claims to be well designed and in the right place end up getting approved and built.

Matthew Landrus, a Leonardo scholar, believes most of the painting is by the artist’s studio assistant Bernardino Luini, whose own work generally sell for less than £1m. “This is a Luini painting,” Landrus said. “By looking at the various versions of Leonardo’s students’ works, one can see that Luini paints just like that work you see in the Salvator Mundi.”

The images still look “fresh,” says a curator, and actually, salt prints are a lot more like photography today than the daguerrotypes that became more popular.

“The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, which is operated by the Stony Brook Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising agency of Stony Brook University, attracted hundreds of visitors per day to the Springs Fireplace Road site. A record 350 people visited the home one day last year, center director Helen Harrison said.” Now, after complaints, the visitors are limited to three tours of 12 people, three days a week.

Rachel Maclean had “the residency from hell,” and in the year since her immersive art experience ended, she’s done her best to avoid all shopping centers. And the art didn’t work well either: “The only brand that would allow her to film in its shop was Smiggle, purveyor of unicorn-embossed children’s stationery.”