“The £80m [Victoria and Albert] Museum Of Design Dundee on the banks of the Tay, housed in a dazzling building inspired by cliffs on the east coast of Scotland, is to open [on 15] September. Details were announced on Thursday for what will be the V&A’s first outpost outside London, and Scotland’s first design museum.”
Category: visual
Even With Free Admission, Attendance At Baltimore’s Art Museums Is Falling
“Eleven years ago, when Baltimore’s two largest art museums” – the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art – “joined a nationwide trend by announcing that they would drop admission fees, the news was applauded in newspapers from New York to Detroit to Jackson, Miss. … [But] after initial surges in attendance, museums in Baltimore and nationwide that went free soon resumed losing visitors at alarming rates. A decade later, museum officials are still scrambling to devise ways to reverse the slide.”
There’s A Painted-Over Sol LeWitt In A Houston Dentist’s House
“The site-specific Wall Drawing #679 – a grid of blue squares segmented by red and yellow lines – had been commissioned by the late William F. Stern, a local architect and the home’s previous owner. It was executed on the roughly 30-by-10-foot wall in the early 1990s, and covered up years later when the house was sold.” Now the owner is uncovering it – problem is, she doesn’t legally own it. Artsy‘s Isaac Kaplan explains.
Museum Show Full Of Fake Kandinsky And Malevich Paintings, Argue Experts
The Museum of Fine Arts in the Belgian city of Ghent is hosting an exhibition of 20th-century Russian avant-garde works – attributed to Popova, Rodchenko, Goncharova, Malevich, Kandinsky, and others – from the private foundation of a Russian businessman and collector. A group of scholars and professionals argue in an open letter that these works “have no exhibition history, have never before been reproduced in serious scholarly publications, and have no traceable sales records.”
Coming To Terms With Degas
A century after his death, we are just about coming to terms with Degas’s achievement, with his position as the modern artist. His work was entirely about contemporary life – even more so than Manet’s. In his entire career he only ever showed one painting with a historical or biblical theme, the early Scene of War in the Middle Ages. Edmond de Goncourt recognised in 1874 that ‘among all the artists I have met so far, he is the one who has best been able, in representing modern life, to catch the spirit of that life.’
Virtual Reality Comes To Art (But Who Owns – Controls – What?)
Legal questions about ownership of virtual public spaces were thrown into sharp relief in October when Snapchat partnered with Koons to allow users to project his balloon sculptures in specific sites around the world using augmented reality (AR). In protest against an “augmented reality corporate invasion”, the artist Sebastian Errazuriz “graffiti-bombed” one of the works and placed it in the same geotagged location in Central Park as the Snapchat version.
How To Spend An Hour With One Work Of Art
Art critic Peter Clothier writes about his “One Hour/One Painting” sessions in Los Angeles – how he got the idea for them and how they work.
Bayeux Tapestry To Be Displayed In Britain For First Time In 950 Years
The 229-foot-long work of embroidered linen, which depicts the Norman Conquest of England and is thought to date from a few years after it, will be lent by France to the UK five years from now, once tests have confirmed that it isn’t too fragile to be transported.
New Vincent Van Gogh Drawing Discovered, Another Authenticated
“The Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry was acquired in 2014 by the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation, which then showed the work to specialists at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. After research into the subject, style, technique, materials and provenance, they concluded that it is indeed by the artist. … What adds to the importance of the discovery is that the Van Gogh Museum is now accepting a similar work in its own collection that it had rejected a few years ago.”
Moscow To Complete Its Own ‘Museum Mile’ Next Year
When the contemporary-art space GES2 (designed by Renzo Piano) is completed in 2019, “it will be possible to visit the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts on the north side of the Moscow River before walking over Patriarchy Bridge to GES2 on Bolotny Island. From here people can stroll to the Tretyakov Gallery on the south side of the water and finish up at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Gorky Park.”