While dealers say the majority of sales are still consummated in person, often in the framework of long-term relationships, the seeds of those relationships are increasingly being sown online, rather than through traditional routes like art fairs and referrals. The stakes are high: Galleries’ long-term survival may ultimately depend on building up a robust digital presence.
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LA Art World Reacts To Firing Of MoCA Curator
Some observers see Molesworth’s ouster as symptomatic of a struggle between her progressive ideals and the status quo, epitomized by Vergne who curated three shows of white male artists — Carl Andre, Matthew Barney, and Doug Aitken — since arriving.
How Much Of Art Conservators’ Work Should Be Visible?
The question arose (again) with the $450 million sale of da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi after former Met Museum director Thomas Campbell posted an image of the painting pre-conservation on Instagram. Ben Luke looks at the issues – and at four Old Master paintings said to have suffered conservation “indignities” in the past.
There’s Another New Banksy In NYC (This One Planned), And It’s In Support Of A Political Prisoner
“The anonymous British artist’s 70-foot-long mural was unveiled on Thursday, and it protests the imprisonment of the Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan, who was sentenced last March for painting the destruction of a Turkish [Kurdish] town, with the country’s flag flying over rubble.”
Paris Or China? Here’s The Chinese Eiffel Tower Knockoff
Francois Prost’s photograph of the Eiffel Tower looks like it was taken on any given day in Paris. But just outside the frame are clues that the structure in his picture is nowhere near the Champ de Mars: Chinese script adorns all the shop signs, and there is no shortage of canteens serving up fried rice. That’s because Prost didn’t capture that image in France—he captured it 6,000 miles away in a facsimile of the City of Light.
Frank Gehry Tapped To Design Major Expansion Of LA’s Colburn School Across From Disney Hall
The project, to be announced Wednesday by Colburn President and CEO Sel Kardan, also includes a 700-seat studio theater for dance and vocal performance, a 100-seat theater for smaller-scale and experimental work, as well as classrooms, dance studios, an outdoor performance area and housing for students and guest artists.
Banksy Puts Up A New Work In New York: A Rat (Of Course)
It’s even more fitting than you think: not only has the world’s only celebrity guerrilla artist tagged the Big Apple with an image of its emblematic mammal, he’s made it represent the city’s emblematic metaphor for work and career. (Sorry, there’s no pizza.)
Paris’s Museum Of Decorative Arts, Tired Of Being Confused With Other Institutions, Rebrands
“The Musée des Arts Décoratifs has long had an identity crisis. It is in a 19th-century wing of the Louvre building … but it does not belong to the Louvre. It gets confused with the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, the elite national school for art and design on the other side of the Seine River, even though there is no connection between the two institutions. And it is not a museum dedicated to the early 20th-century Art Deco movement, even though ‘Art Deco’ is shorthand for ‘Arts Décoratifs.’ So in January, in an effort to reinvent itself, the museum changed its name.”
Public Art For Common Good
Nonprofits generally don’t create their own elaborate art to rally more community support. Most have limited budgets, which necessitates putting time, money, and effort into programming first, in order to impact the communities they’re serving. Still, more funders are thinking up creative ways to use the medium.
Skyscrapers In Paris? Mais Oui! (Cue The Protests)
Shaped like an enormous, flattened pyramid, it will challenge the Eiffel Tower for dominance of the skyline. Neighborhood residents violently oppose it. The project’s Swiss architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, are thrilled.