Category: visual

The proposed changes, including a central pavilion that features Mark Rothko’s work, are logical to fix the confusing layout of the museum and enhance it as well. But “to reach its $75 million total goal, it must crack Oregon’s historic stinginess about making large contributions to the arts.”

What do artists do when civilization seems to be unraveling? “We need a visual language that speaks to the hearts and minds of people. … No market, no institutional power, no media can stop the soft power of art.”

“Colors are something we experience, individually and collectively. But without our experience of color, science would have no reason to suspect its existence. There would just be fifty shades, or more likely fifty thousand shades, of electromagnetic waves. That is why even a Nobel Prize-winning biologist like Gerald Edelman tells us that reality is actually colorless; because he takes reality to be what science tells us it is, not what he experiences as an individual.”

Each company has different aims, but one thing is clear: data will play a key role in how they—and the art market—move forward.

And he’s an American – in fact, he’s the guy who lit up the new San Francisco Bay Bridge. The £20m project, which covers 17 bridges along a six-mile stretch of the Thames, is one of the largest public art commissions in British history.

Cosmetic mogul Leonard and his wife, Judy, are giving the museum $5 million (contingent on the raising of a matching amount) toward its $15 million endowment drive.

Remember “spring green”? That’s not what Pantone’s calling it, of course, but even so …

“‘In the social media, there have been tens of thousands of comments about ‘King Bibi’,’ [sculptor Itay] Zalait said on Army Radio when asked what had inspired him to create the statue. ‘I simply made it a reality and put it in its deserved place, the Kings of Israel Square.'”

“In the U.S., we’re citizens of our debt,” the collective, which grew out of the Occupy Wall Street movement, told me. “Almost everyone has some kind of debt. If artists don’t organize around it, [the debt] is going to gobble us up.”

In the years between the 1925 Paris Exhibition (where the stye became famous) and World War II, Art Deco became as popular in Japan as it did in any other prosperous country. “The cultural hybridity was, in a way, a reversal of the one that emerged in Western Europe in the late-19th century, when Japonism swept through the region, captivating the Impressionists in particular.”