Category: visual

“In 1942, when Woodruff was at Atlanta University, he founded what was known as the Exhibition for African American artists. It ‘was the only venue where people of color could exhibit on a national scale without the forces of segregation,’ Driskell explains.”

“‘He wanted to invent a new theory that would interweave color and music through the technology of the Triforium,’ said Leslie Young, one of the artist’s two daughters who spoke recently at the fundraising event. ‘As part of his fantastical plan, my father proposed that laser beams would shoot skyward from the three concrete pillars, tapping out Los Angeles in Morse code,’ said Cecily Young, Joseph Young’s other daughter.”

“The fairy lights of a Christmas market twinkled through the windows while tourists shuffled along the south bank clutching cups of mulled wine, oblivious to the heated debate going on inside the chamber. The mayor had been summoned, along with the head of Transport for London Mike Brown and its planning director Richard de Cani, to explain themselves to the Greater London Authority’s Oversight Committee over the murky genesis of the proposed garden bridge. And Boris, chief bridge booster, was getting increasingly hot under the collar.”

“So what am I supposed to do when cultural forces I loathe are responsible for something like a new golden age of public art, which I always felt was important, but also maybe something like impossible?”

Every once in awhile, we hear news about the fate of select pieces from the former museum’s collection, many of which have been claimed by the National Gallery of Art. But little is known about the plight of the college, its staff, faculty, and students since it was taken over by George Washington University.

“More than 250 works were offered in three online auctions in March and April, and made a total of $4.9m.”

Henry “Hank” Martin, the new president of the Atheneum board of trustees, said Thomas Loughman was chosen from a field of 80 candidates, and was the only one of the three finalists who had never been director of a museum.

“National Heritage officials [have] backed off a bid to transfer [four] paintings – Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights and Table of the Mortal Sins; Tintoretto’s The Foot Washing; and Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross – to a €160m museum due to open in Madrid by 2017 to house the Royal Collections.”

“[Franklin Sirmans] had just started his job as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami at a time when the institution had committed to increasing its private contributions and art collection in a city without a tradition of cultural philanthropy – and with a benefactor who alienated the potential donor base by having the new building named after himself.”

“More than 600 million people live in the 10 Asian nations roughly south of China and east of India, in what Eugene Tan, the director of the National Gallery, described as ‘one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world.’ Yet much of its art has been overlooked by the West, and many significant works have been confined to private collections, partly a legacy of colonialism.”