“In this case, the Albright-Knox seems to be trying to rewrite history, repeating the canard that Bunshaft’s building was built as an auditorium, not galleries, so that’s the only part worth saving. According to the history books, this is simply not true.”
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From The British Museum Extension To A Pier On The Beach: The 2017 Stirling Prize Shortlist
“Hastings’ revived seaside pier will go head to head with a stealthy addition to the British Museum and a photographer’s concrete studio in west London in the race to win the RIBA Stirling prize for the UK’s best new building. They are joined on a diverse shortlist by a new visitor centre at Chatham’s historic naval dockyard, a little brick tower of six apartments in east London and a gargantuan complex for the City of Glasgow College – the second year running that the young institution has made the shortlist.”
What Documenta Left Behind In Athens (And What It Didn’t)
“‘Too bad that it won’t be here anymore,’ says an older woman wearing a large grey ponytail. She’s talking about the free food at the colorful pavilion on Athens’s Kotzia Square. The woman probably doesn’t know that it’s really an art project by Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen … ‘You have to be pretty brash as a Documenta visitor to sit here and eat the food when there are many who need it more,’ comments one German guest.”
The Pompidou Center Shanghai Is Coming
“Officials at the Centre Pompidou have confirmed that … more than 20 exhibitions drawn from the holdings of the Beaubourg Gallery will be shown in the new outpost, called Le Centre Pompidou Shanghai (West Bund), which is based in a wing of the new 25,000 sq. m West Bund Art Museum designed by the UK architect David Chipperfield.”
How Indigenous Australian Artists Are Shaking Off Stereotypes Of Their Work
Things have started to shift on the dot-painting stereotype in the decade or so. There has been “a push to have urban, Indigenous artists accepted. As a result, the art market’s understanding of Indigenous art has expanded to include urban artists who work in many different mediums.”
$25 Admission To A Museum Special Exhibition? How Much Is Too Much?
That’s what LA’s Broad Museum will charge. “One has to note that these are the same museums that regularly raise outside sums of money to pay for big building projects, even as they make no real effort to address ticket prices. While commending the Broads for displaying their collection for free (setting aside that it is largely blue chip and predictable), we can still say that it looks peculiar for them to spend $140 million on a building and then charge $25 for a show. The same goes for SFMOMA and its current admissions fees.”
The Gates Of Paradise Are Now In Kansas City
The only copy outside Florence of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, cast in bronze from the 15th-century originals, has arrived at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Victoria Stapley-Brown tells the story of the work, how and why it came to be copied, and how the copy arrived in Kansas City via Japan, India, South Korea, and New York.
Barnes Foundation’s Chief Curator Goes Back From Philly To Paris After Just Two Years
“Less than two years after arriving at the Barnes Foundation from Paris’ Musée d’Orsay, … Sylvie Patry, 48, is returning to France and to her former museum. It’s pretty much a dream job, she says. The Orsay, as she calls it, has carved out a position for her as deputy director for curatorial affairs and collections, giving her, essentially, the run of the place.”
Has Artsy Finally Cracked The Online Art World?
While rivals tried to challenge the art-world establishment head on, Artsy chose to partner. “We always intuitively thought those other vertical models weren’t going to be as scalable, but it’s scary at the time to see another competitor going up really fast in revenue when you’re not,” Cleveland says. “To be a partnership model, to aggregate everything into one place, means we had to wait a little bit longer until we started seeing those transactions. Now the roles have switched.”
How To Fix The Met Museum? Benjamin Millepied, Nico Muhly, And Cheech Marin (Among Other) Weigh In
“A range of Met-ophiles – artists and archaeologists, chefs and curators, designers and D.J.s, playwrights and performers – offer their own ideas and expectations for how a new director can rethink the world’s greatest museum for a new century. Some of these suggestions are bold, others more whimsical, but all of them come from people who want nothing more than to see the museum on solid ground.”