Category: visual

“The show also raises questions about the popular narratives surrounding Detroit art, the often narrow perceptions about what exactly defines art from Detroit and how the conversation is starting to change — or needs to change.”

“Officials in the museum community say that no plan to protect exhibits is foolproof, and that the recent episodes reflect the balance that museums seek between making their collections accessible to visitors and keeping them secure.”

“It’s easy to preserve skin, but when it comes to an organ it’s a very different matter: they decompose no matter what you do.”

“The historic building remains in a bare-bones state, its parking lot devoid of construction vehicles, as stakeholders await a revised design plan for what the Ringling College of Art and Design, which absorbed the SMOA organization a decade ago, is calling its ‘South Campus Complex.'”

“Built in 1937, the concrete structure was the ‘last fragment’ of the derelict seaside lido used for the street artist’s ‘Bemusement Park’ exhibit last year. Conservationists said they had been told the fountain, in Weston-super-Mare, would be spared from destruction.”

“A number of these smaller self-portraits are etched onto copper, a surface upon which projections can be seen extremely clearly. Two early painted self-portraits are also made on copper — an unusual choice of surface for a painting, but perhaps telling of an artist working from a projection.”

“It took two days to 3D print Zeus’s body and 20 hours to print his legs.”

“Duchamp was a genius. He could put a noise in a ball of string and hey presto, it was art. He made it look easy – well, he made everything look easy – and yet many daft and self-indulgent sound works are only “art” at the most glib level as sadly exposed by the National Gallery’s exhibition Soundscapes last summer, in which only Philipsz rose above the banal.”

“Through five Republics, the French have assiduously cared for this apogee of French culture, a national symbol baked into the country’s psyche. Touching any part of Versailles is like performing brain surgery on France: a very delicate matter.”