Category: visual

“What remains, aside from the odd chair or electrical cord, is Breuer’s inimitable space. Also, maybe, a little nostalgia for the former tenant.” (slide show)

“It is very sad if after all that has happened at the school they are simply sold off to a private collector.”

“Sources close to the investigation told El Pais on Sunday the theft appeared to have been a highly professional operation which took place while the owner was away, with the perpetrators disabling the alarm system.”

“A key question that is being examined is whether the varnish of the Amsterdam painting could safely be removed. … This coating was probably added in 1927, to help protect the surface. The varnish has aged since then, leaving a brownish tinge and dulling Van Gogh’s sparkling colours.”

But, like, *totally* not because of massive, yearslong protests or anything: “The spokesman, David Nicholas, said it was ‘a commercial decision’ prompted by the collapse in oil prices.”

“Once the new, on-site locally sourced, seasonal-everything restaurant opens this summer, the place is gonna be rife with blowouts and air-kissing. In other words, the scene here is the bluest of blue chip. Thankfully for us scrubs, the art part will be gloriously free.”

“The art world as it is right now is extremely elitist — art galleries and museums, especially, epitomize all the worst parts of exclusion and the shutting out of one people in favor of the raising up of another based on a single narrow definition of what is acceptable.”

“They are hidden from the main street, accessible usually by a gate-covered break in the larger, more impressive townhouses that front the main street. Go through those gates and you’ll find yourself in a secret pocket of the city, in which there are tiny alleys with tiny houses and tiny courtyards.”

“[Guy] Cogeval, who has led the museum since 2008, applied for a third term, but his ability to lead the museum, particularly after suffering a stroke in 2014, has been openly challenged by the museum’s staff.” But France’s brand-new culture minister convinced President Hollande to let Cogeval stay on for one more year.

“[Martha] Tedeschi, who serves as deputy director for art and research at the Art Institute [of Chicago], comes to the Harvard post with deep curatorial roots – experience that she says will help her oversee museum programming that serves the university’s student population while also welcoming the public.”