Category: visual

“Mills considers everything that has happened as the result of the museum’s original 2007 move into the Pearl District from its home on Southwest Corbett. That move wasn’t just geographic; it changed the culture of the museum (which had been known as Contemporary Crafts Gallery) as it raised its visibility and quality of exhibitions. And it was far more expensive. ‘I don’t think they ever recovered,’ Mills said.”

“When it opens in mid-March, there will be no other commercial gallery like it in Los Angeles, New York or, for that matter, the rest of the Americas.”

“In 2011, Farouk Al-Rawi, an Iraqi Assyriologist now living in Britain, was shown a group of cuneiform tablets by an antiquities dealer in the Kurdish part of Iraq. He spotted among them a large, unusually shaped fragment and urged the Sulaymaniyah Museum to acquire the whole group.”

In an art market governed largely by pretense and money, does a masterpiece have any intrinsic value?

“One can imagine a near-future museum with every important artwork in the world – the entire contents of E H Gombrich’s 1950 classic The Story of Art – made manifest in a single super-didactic replica collection. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as no one feels fooled. A copy is just a copy, entirely legal and often useful (not least for scholarship and education), and becomes a forgery only if the work is used to defraud.”

“Air strikes by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition and attacks by fundamentalist groups linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS have caused widespread destruction to Yemen’s heritage, losses that have been under-reported compared with the destruction wreaked by extremists in Syria and northern Iraq. The latest casualty is the National Museum in the city of Taiz, which was badly damaged when shelled by Houthis militants on Sunday.”

Says Yves Bouvier: “If I buy for two and I can sell for eleven, I will sell for eleven.” (That’s not counting the commission.) “I think in [my client’s] head the problem was not that Bouvier made money – it was that he made too much money.”

An NGO called les Toits du Monde is the developer behind the scheme, which uses prefabricated metal-and-glass boxes bolted into steel supports. on top of existing buildings.

“Artists and arts writers can list many galleries that have closed or moved towns during the last decade. With few major spots left, artists were shocked when the board of The Jacobs Gallery, located in the city’s performing arts center, announced that it would close at the end of January.”

“The Picasso Administration, charged with managing the artist’s estate, … said the canvas is a copy of a 1940 work by the great Spanish artist, Woman Dressing Her Hair – and the original is in the hands of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).”