Category: visual

“Andrew Butterfield, an art dealer and Renaissance scholar, had seen the two-and-a-half-foot tall wooden sculpture several years before, in a photograph, and thought it was ‘really fantastic.'”

“A completely intact apartment by American Postmodern architect Michael Graves has been in storage at the Brooklyn Museum since it was acquired in 1986. Similar to other Postmodern designs by Graves, the apartment features ornamental design, an eclectic blend of classical references and muted color palettes.”

“A pattern of exclusive royal privilege in the East becomes the pattern of Western capitalist longing. It trickles down on humbler fabrics to working men, gay men, gang members, and Boy Scouts. It signifies free love and forbidden love, belonging and exclusion – a seemingly impossible range of human experience.”

“‘The Floating Piers,’ his first fantastical outdoor installation since ‘The Gates’ and the first project conceived since Jeanne-Claude’s death, consumes his every waking hour.”

“Those accustomed to doodling on scrap paper know this: the bliss ends the moment you stop, study the result, and decide to trash it. (The alternative being, after an embarrassingly prideful assessment, not doing that.) But who bothers with scrap paper anymore? With any number of apps, you can doodle on a screen, in infinite colors, with your index finger. You can erase smoothly and cleanly, in a way that is satisfying and therapeutic. You can start over, draw new lines. No self-doubt, no paper cuts. When the picture is done, it floats away into the cloud.”

“What had been languishing in Ro’s attic for the best part of 50 years was a stash of more than 500 paintings and drawings. Overnight, it doubled the number of Dunbar’s known works.”

“The complaint by the Fine Arts Museums’ longtime chief financial officer, Michele Gutierrez, has landed both at City Hall and state Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office. It centers on $450,000 Wilsey ordered paid to an ailing staffer, and both the city and museum Board of Trustees have been looking into it, the sources say.”

“Lee sees this moment in Harlem’s development, as it becomes gentrified and the residential profile evolves, as a crucial time. She says, ‘When neighborhoods are changing, that’s the opportunity to make sure they change in a way that’s inclusive.'”

“One man who took severe offense at RSAP’s cause approached demonstrators, shouting at them, ‘You know who else tries to ban things they don’t like? Nazis! That’s what you are! Nazis!'” Renoir defenders’ signs read “You can take our Renoir when you pry them from our cold dead hands” and “Je suis Pierre-Auguste.”

“At this recently opened university – which was still young and free from historical traditions – artist/teachers including SoCal Light and Space art movement pioneers Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman and Ed Moses counseled students, employed curious teaching methods such as having classmates put crayons between their toes, collaborated with them on performance pieces, and even partied with them.”