As with the previous titleholder, this painting was sold privately rather than at an auction.
Category: visual
Museum Audiences Have Less Time. So How Will Museums Adapt?
“If the lack of leisure is the fundamental problem the museum sector faces, it should address the issue directly, broadly and fearlessly. Indeed, the entire cultural community needs to accept that it makes no sense to obsess about a dwindling audience or the lack of public resources without addressing the underlying issue of leisure, and why, as a society, we have failed to make time for pleasure, learning and self-improvement.”
A Quiet Berlin Museum Makes Big Changes (Not Driven By Art)
“The new leadership has a sharp eye for the collection’s most interesting pieces. But the move is not driven by the needs of the collection; instead it is being used for a different purpose: to create another Berlin spectacle.”
Did Eero Saarinen Base His TWA Terminal On A Chair?
“One piece in particular included in the TWA lounges – the Pedestal or Tulip chair – designed by Saarinen just before the TWA Flight Center, foretold its hovering form and mix of organic and modern design.”
Paul Allen Wants To Build Another Museum
Allen’s already got Experience Music Project at Seattle Center, which describes itself on its website as “a leading-edge nonprofit museum, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture.” Allen also founded the Living Computer Museum in Sodo, the Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett, and STARTUP, a gallery at Albuquerque’s New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.”
This Artist Won The Rights To The World’s Darkest Pigment
“Anish Kapoor now owns the exclusive rights to the world’s darkest material — a claim that, naturally, is pissing off other artists. The pigment is the very sexy Vantablack, known as the blackest black out there — much blacker than a panther swimming in a tarpit.”
A Berlin Museum Runs Tours In Arabic, Helping To Welcome Some Refugees
“The visits can be fraught. ‘Sometimes people say: ‘The Germans have all our heritage! They stole it!’’ said Zoya Masoud, 27, who led the Arabic-language tour that afternoon at the Museum of Islamic Art, which is part of the Pergamon Museum and filled with treasures from empires past. Often, the visitors say the art is probably better off in Berlin because so much in Syria has been destroyed by the war and the Islamic State, Ms. Masoud said.”
Can Crowdfunding Save JMW Turner’s House From Collapsing?
“Keeping it standing has involved clearing blocked lavatories by hand, shovelling up fallen bricks and plaster, chopping down trees whose roots were ripping apart foundations and, worse, sewer pipes, and scrubbing down all four walls of a room so cold and damp it had become covered in mould from skirting board to ceiling.”
You Might Soon See A Lot More Of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art
The Rauschenberg Foundation “has decided to adopt a new policy of making images of Rauschenberg work much more widely available free. In doing so, it is urging other artists’ estates and foundations to take a hard look at protections it believes — in the name of safeguarding works from piracy or misuse — have become too restrictive, especially in the digital era.”
The Met Museum Admissions Lawsuit Has Been Settled
“To dispel any remaining confusion, signs at the museum’s admission desks will also include two new sentences: ‘The amount you pay is up to you’ and ‘Please be as generous as you can.'”