Category: visual

“The new documentary on her life, ably directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, is a reminder of what an engaged patron Guggenheim was. At one point in the film, an interviewer asks her what the role of her gallery was in the realm of American painting. ‘To give birth to it,’ replies Guggenheim. ‘I was the midwife.'”

“The great Cuban-born painter Carmen Herrera, who turned 100 this year, and did not sell a work until she was 89, gets up every morning to paint. Her advice to the young is not to hurry through their 20s, and never to be intimidated by anything. ‘You don’t decide to be an artist,’ she has said, ‘art gets inside of you. It’s like falling in love.'”

“‘I guess it’s always a problem to get recognized in your hometown,’ she reflects. ‘But they can’t wait and wait because then I’ll die and it’ll cost big bucks,’ she adds with a laugh. ‘Then they will pay for their hesitation.'”

Examinations with a microscope reveal a racist joke.

The auction house’s stock price has been steadily declining over the last six months. On Monday the company released its third-quarter results, showing that commissions from Sotheby’s auction sales during the period were $56 million, a decrease of 12 percent from the same period in 2014.

“In 1978, when Unesco published its first list of protected places, there were just 12 World Heritage Sites. Now there are 1,031, including Fray Bentos meatpacking plant in Uruguay, as of July this year.”

“Sotheby’s stock price reflects the general slowdown in the global economy. The stock has been hurt by their earnings from their main auction business, which are weak.”

“From today, fans of the British Museum will be able to avoid the crowds to snoop through more than 4,500 objects online, peering inside glass cabinets to inspect their finest artefacts. It will be the largest indoor Street View project in the world, allowing virtual entrance into the entire London institution as well as specially-curated digital collections.”

“We knew that we had one false ceiling to take down. We had a plan to put new ductwork in. What nobody knew was that, above this false ceiling, there was a second false ceiling. And then a third false ceiling.”

“Reports written by Nicholas Eastaugh, the director of Art Analysis & Research (formerly Art Access & Research), examin[ed] the pigments used in 23 paintings. Of those, 12 were found to include CI Pigment Yellow 74, which was not commercially available before the Abstract Impressionist artist died in 1956.”