Category: visual

“The museum will have a permanent collection, ‘which will change every ten years’, a room for permanent exhibitions and one in which “the piece of the month” will be installed, an outstanding work of more than three million pieces that the large Hermitage. The museum will not be a mere franchise his Russian counterpart, but the pieces from St. Petersburg, museográficos other objects will be added to explain great stories.”

“The Tate vaunts these statistics with the pride with which the Kremlin used to announce an increase in tractor production. But, the footsore visitor might wonder, can there be too much of a good thing? And how good are the things in Tate Modern?”

“This video from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston takes us behind the scenes of the conservation work necessary to restore Vincent van Gogh’s Houses at Auvers. According to [conservator] Lydia Vagts … the ‘gunk’ … comes from previous cleanings, and includes varnish residues, wax residues, and cotton fibers.”

“Ebru, a decorative paper art, hails from East and Central Asia in the 10th and 16th centuries, respectively. The technique involves sprinkling and brushing pigments onto the surface of oily water in a pan, then laying paper atop the water, effectively dyeing the paper with tendrils of color. [Garip] Ay is classically trained in the art form, and his loose, paisley-like patterns beautifully mimic the Dutch post-Impressionist’s celestial swirls.” (video)

“The three museum’s plans, all announced within four weeks of each other, illustrate a growing problem in cultural fundraising today. While there seems to be ample money to finance expansions—a recent survey by The Art Newspaper found that US museums spent $5bn on building projects between 2007 and 2014—there is less money available to pay staff.”

200,000 floating cubes create a three-kilometre runway connecting the village of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on Lake Iseo, Italy. Thousands come to walk on the saffron water walkway.

“The art market has been going through a testing period, not least its sensitivity to fluctuations in the global economy and the uncertain political outlook.”

“The three departures precede what is expected to be a series of voluntary buyouts, which the museum has said it hopes will allow it to avoid layoffs. The Met has also set a hiring freeze and halted some renovation projects.”

“Basel was more conservative this year both in terms of what people brought and what people were buying. Clients are nervous about buying works by younger artists if they’re not sure where their careers are going.”

“The walkway is assembled from 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes that form its 16-meter-wide (53 feet) spine, covered this week with a waterproof and stain-resistant fabric made by a German company for the project.”