Category: visual

A cabinet official who asked to remain anonymous said Wednesday’s decision came after “the repeated setting up in the country’s squares of bad statues that do not conform with Egypt’s deep-rooted history”. The controversial statue of a soldier hugging a woman from behind in Sohag’s town of Balyana was the latest in a series of statues that have become a laughingstock on social media.

Eighty percent of visitors to the Louvre go just to see the Mona Lisa. But is it really THAT much better than all the other art? Herein a cynic’s explanation for why Lisa gets all the attention.

Since 2013, Rabaté has been the director of Agence France-Muséums, the French government agency charged with the Louvre Abu Dhabi project. He graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and has worked at the Musée du Louvre and Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

The Museum of Modern Art puts records of every exhibition it has ever presented online. These photos of paintings hanging in galleries are erie, writes Robinson Meyer, and they say  a lot about what curators of the day were thinking about how to look at art. How “modern” of them..

“On the north bank of the River Tay, Scotland’s new museum of design is taking shape. Designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, it resembles a beached ship. The first major project by a London museum in Scotland, the V&A Museum of Design Dundee represents an opportunity to show the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to a new audience in the UK. The process has not been without bumps.”

“The marmoreal stone object, with such details as hip creases and an indented navel in a protruding stomach, weighs 1kg and is 17cm in length. Its uniqueness is due to its material (while this is stone, most figurines are clay), its skillful carving and its intact condition.”

David Adjaye calls this concept “narrative construction.” It’s a mode of architectural storytelling embodied in the museum’s façade, a three-tiered, trapezoidal structure inspired by the staggered crown of an early 20th century Yoruban sculpture that Adjaye encountered in a book from his personal library. (The same sculpture is currently a centerpiece of the museum’s fourth floor Culture Galleries.) Adjaye calls it “the Corona.” Its edges, he says, also mirror the rake of the neighboring Washington Monument.

Not well. “Such is the new art season. At auction houses in London and New York, sellers are preparing to bail on their investments after the emerging-art bubble burst and the resale market for once sought-after artists dried up.”

“The softness of gold has led to concerns about vandalism. People on social media have already been bragging about plans to deface the artwork.”

“UTA — known for representing Hollywood talent like Johnny Depp and Lena Dunham — has signed a handful of artists such as Rashid Johnson, Ai Wei Wei, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and Judy Chicago. Roth and company can help pair them with, say, a show runner if they’d like to adapt something into a movie or TV show. Or the agency could feasibly assist with projects in the vein of Jay-Z’s “Picasso Baby,’ a still-surreal blending of creative worlds that involved the rapper, Pace Gallery, Marina Ambramovich, and Salon 94’s Jeanne Greenberg.’