“During springtime, the Indianapolis Museum of Art welcomed you to friendlier weather with thousands of color-drenched blooms on its outdoor campus. A beer garden and, later on, 18 holes of mini-golf designed by artists kept you coming back. Starting in mid-November, … the museum’s gardens will be illuminated by millions of lights that dance along to the music of the Nutcracker Suite. You’ll have your choice of drinks and firepits to roast s’mores. These are the type of cultural experiences Indy residents are drawn to. It’s just that when it comes to perception, market research shows people don’t necessarily connect them to the IMA.”
Category: visual
Thieves Are Stealing Paris’s Favorite Street Mosaics (And It Seems To Be A Custom-Order Job)
About 15 works by the street artist known as Invader have been removed from the walls of buildings by two men in yellow jackets who claim to be city workers (and then drive off in a Mercedes).
Museums In Talks To Return Benin Bronzes To Africa
The British Museum will take part in a European summit to discuss the return of art seized from the Benin kingdom, now part of southern Nigeria, by a British punitive expedition in 1897 as “reparations” after it defied the British empire by imposing customs duties.
Here’s The World’s Blackest Pigment That Working Artists Can Actually Buy And Use
Singularity Black absorbs just a bit less light than Vantablack, whose creation was announced last year. But the makers of Vantablack (notoriously) sold exclusive rights to its use to sculptor Anish Kapoor, and it’s not even in a fully usable form yet, while Singularity Black is already available for purchase by any interested customer.
Lost Giacometti Sketches Turn Up In Antiques Shop
The pencil drawings were among the effects of the famously crusty London dealer Eila Grahame, who died in 2010.
London’s Garden Bridge Officially Killed
More than £37 million of public money has already been spent on what was supposed to be a privately funded £200 million project, which was conceived by the actress Joanna Lumley and designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Private fundraising for the bridge stalled last year after London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, joined many city residents in opposing it and refused to commit any funding for its maintenance.
We May Not Know How New York’s ‘The Shed’ Will Turn Out Or What’ll Be Shown There, But Seeing Its Enormous Shell Glide On Rails Is Pretty Cool
“The gossamer-looking but gigantic structure [designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro] still weighs in at 8 million pounds but glides on a half-dozen exposed steel ‘bogies,’ or wheels, six-feet in diameter, with tapered bearings so meticulously engineered that the system requires just six 15-horsepower motors – in effect, a Toyota Prius engine moving a behemoth as finely-tuned as a Formula One car.”
Louisville Mayor Orders Review Of City’s Public Art For Racist Works
Mayor Greg Fischer announced today that he’s directing the Louisville Commission on Public Art to review its catalogue of public art to develop a list of pieces that can be interpreted to be honoring bigotry, racism and/or slavery. This is in preparation for a community conversation about their display.
Vietnamese Art Market Is Booming, But Full Of Fakes
“Vietnamese art remains a niche market globally but is surging in popularity at international auctions. In April, a late 1930s painting by one artist, Le Pho, sold for nearly $1.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, breaking the $844,000 record set by another of his paintings in 2014. But artists and dealers complain that the proliferation of fakes is dragging down the value of Vietnamese art.”
Pantone Has Announced An Official Prince Purple Color
“Love Symbol #2” was inspired by his custom-made Yamaha purple piano, which was originally scheduled to go on tour with the artist before his death from an accidental drug overdose on April 21, 2016.