Category: visual

“‘We’re moving into a space and not having a capital campaign,’ said Ethan Seltzer, PICA’s board president and a professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University. ‘This is mind-blowing.'”

“In the 16th century, Pope Gregory assigned the monk and geographer Ignazio Danti to carry out the project. In turn, Danti hired several artistic stars of the day and up-and-comers as well to illustrate the maps, including Girolamo Muziano, Cesare Nebbia and the Flemish brothers Matthijs and Paul Bril. The Brils excelled at landscape paintings—an essential skill for the work.”

“Art Brussels, meanwhile, packed a taut punch into its new space and welcomed a fair-record 10,000 visitors its first day, Ms. Gregos said. She demurs from calling it ‘Europe’s most cutting edge major art fair,’ (but it seems likely it is).”

“SFMOMA is about to rise high up the table of art museums and become an unmissable attraction on the west coast. Without doubt this achievement is in part a product of the money-fuelled transformation of the Bay Area – and the gallery’s expansion is unlikely to silence the increasingly loud talk of how the tech industry has stripped San Francisco of its culture and its soul.”

“Purple is a branding color, a very special color. Not many people use it.”

“The unfinished oil on canvas, thought to date from the mid-1980s, will settle £559,773 of tax. Arts Council England, which administers the acceptance in lieu scheme, said the portrait fragment had only been discovered recently.”

“Perry Rubenstein, 62, was arrested late Thursday in Santa Monica, more than a month after prosecutors filed charges alleging three felony counts of grand theft by embezzlement. The complaint requested that he be held on $1-million bail.”

“Throughout the Lodi district of Milan, Italy, artist Biancoshock has transformed abandoned manholes into miniature subterranean rooms. Beneath the pavement, in vacant maintenance vaults, a cupid painting in a gaudy frame hangs in a tiny pink living room; a boxy kitchen is stocked with pots and pans; and a blue-tiled bathroom is complete with shower and towel.”

“Three weeks after the anxious official unveiling … and five years after construction began, the appraisal of skeptical Parisians, it seems, is like the face the city presents to the world: reserved and critical, but not unwelcoming. At least, they are learning to live with it, if only because it is going nowhere.”