Janice Chu, who’s working on the sequel to The Lego Movie and a lot more: “It’s a fun challenge thinking with constrained rules. … It’s definitely a different way of thinking which is awesome.”
Category: visual
The New Museum Creates A Pop-Up Support For Black Lives Matter Artists
“The event had ‘a proactive spirit, and we intend on continuing this work in some iteration, so that it’s not reactive,’ said Kameelah Janan Rasheed, an interdisciplinary artist who contributed to the installation.”
When Photographs Were Colored By Hand
“In the days when black-and-white photography reigned, professional colorists took on the task of creating technicolor views by meticulously painting pictures by hand.”
We’re In The Midst Of A Tidal Wave Of Images (And It’s Changing How We Look At Them)
“In the world of social media, Instagram may be an oasis, but as a collective creative project its size is staggering, almost beyond comprehension. In the past year, 30 billion photographs were uploaded. Eighty million go up every day. What does that even mean? The scale of Instagram beggars all attempts to describe it piecemeal. It’s a tidal wave of visual information sweeping away all the old shibboleths of art criticism as it comes to shore.”
Inside The Head Of A Chief Curator
Nancy Spector, new chief curator at the Brooklyn Museum: “There’s all the essential work that we do to create our central product, and there’s all of the scholarship and thinking and educational components that are really critical to what we do, and then there’s the fact that you have to raise money for everything — absolutely everything. So that is just a parallel track that’s always there.”
Britain’s National Gallery Asks Government To Help It Buy £30m Italian Old Master
“The National Gallery in London wants to buy a portrait by Pontormo that its aristocratic owner sold to an oversees buyer for more than £30m last year. Unusually, the seller paid inheritance tax on Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) before its new owner applied for an export licence. The National Gallery therefore hopes that the Treasury will refund the tax paid to help keep the portrait in the UK.”
Louvre’s Attendance Down 20% So Far This Year
“In a phone conversation with a representative for the Louvre – which is the most-visited museum in the world – artnet News discovered that attendance from January through June dropped 20 percent compared to the previous year.”
Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Bring Their Approach To Art Collecting
“Venture capitalists’ characteristic business models suggest approaches to collecting and philanthropy that many gallerists find appealing. Andy Rappaport, a VC who now runs his own family office, described the differences between venture capitalists and other types of investors.”
What Exactly Would The George Lucas Museum Be? Critic Gets A First Look
It seems nearly everyone has an opinion about the collection of the Lucas Museum, which made Don Bacigalupi its first professional staff member last year. “It’s a ‘Star Wars’ museum,” some have said. “It’s a Hollywood memorabilia museum.” On Twitter, Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight called it “George Lucas’ planned Treacle Museum.” But who has actually seen the collection? Only a few people, says Bacigalupi — and no journalist. Until now. Having had the first opportunity to evaluate the collection, I am glad to say it is none of those things. In fact, it may just be the core of a great museum.
Lucas Museum Relaunch In San Francisco Learns From Aborted Chicago Attempt
“Now that billionaire “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and his wife, Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson, have taken their plans back to San Francisco, their team appears to have learned a lesson from their doomed approach in Chicago.”