Category: visual

“Per the institution’s own recent messaging, the Met’s commitment to an historically and geographically expanded view of modern and contemporary art means the museum can contemplate doing the one thing New York museums have ignored for decades—namely, reconsider today’s market-driven contemporary canon.”

Felines and art crimes do not mix, people.

A directive issued on Sunday by the State Council, China’s cabinet, and the Communist Party’s Central Committee says no to architecture that is “oversized, xenocentric, weird” and devoid of cultural tradition. Instead, buildings should be “suitable, economic, green and pleasing to the eye.”

Meet the founders of the organization Museum Hue.

“The Sistine Chapel has been partially reproduced around the world—in museums, as well as bars and restaurants. Mr. Macías says his work will be the only copy of all 33 panels that has been done in a church, which, by luck, has a ceiling nearly the same size and curvature of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.”

“Grasso used data collected by the French Space Observatory to create an algorithm that translates real-time solar activity into a dynamic, constantly fluctuating color and light show.”

“The half-hearted attempts at diversity, minor noodling with the canon, and ‘re-presentations’ of collections are not enough. New histories are needed, a major reboot, if these institutions want to be relevant to future audiences.”

“A sculpture by John Akomfrah forces you to putt into the face of a kneeling figure wearing a hoodie – an obstacle inspired by the deaths of African Americans killed by the police in the US.”

Still, it’s pretty rare to see “an encyclopedic museum of art acquiring a piece of architecture as an object for its permanent collection.”

“Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni and UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova signed an accord in Rome Tuesday creating an Italian task force dubbed the Peacekeepers of Culture, as well as establishing a center in Turin, northern Italy, to train cultural-heritage-protection experts. Officials say no country has been chosen yet for the first mission.”