Category: visual

“He took the hardest road. Choosing to be an artist, period, is a tough one. It’s a risky venture. Most will go unnoticed and unappreciated. How many people deserve the attention?”

“It was a church built thinking that this could be a great population center, but it never achieved tha.”

“The proposed £29m full refurbishment would involve the clock being stopped for four months, and each of the four faces covered in turn as work was undertaken. A visitor centre would also be constructed at the base of the 96m (315ft) tower and a lift installed as an alternative to the 334 steps.”

“The project, which occupies the park’s entire community center, features a singular marriage of high-minded gender and queer theory mixed in with zombies, witches, feminist latch-hook rugs and some very large sculptures of tampons.”

“It’s important that paintings, especially one as famous as this, are available for our students to learn from.”

“It’s not very often you want to rush up and stroke a school, but it’s hard to resist fondling the sharply chamfered concrete facade of Burntwood school in south London, winner of this year’s Riba Stirling prize for the UK’s best building. A 1950s timewarp in the best possible sense, the £41m comprehensive girls’ school recalls the values of another, more generous era.”

In late 2013, an exhibition titled Miró in Istanbul was shut down halfway through its run when the artworks on view were denounced as fakes. The management company that staged the show, the university that hosted the exhibition, and the Joan Miró Foundation (which was never told about the show) all sued the gallerist who owns the works and rented then out. The trials are now beginning.

The statue, located at Jefferson and Randolph right next to city hall, was splashed with fake blood, and a hatchet was taped to his forehead as if it had just been struck.

“With its four letters stacked in a square and its O at a jaunty angle, [LOVE] is so famous that many millions of viewers may not even realise it’s an artwork at all. But it is an artwork – one that hovers over Indiana’s career like a helicopter, and that has obscured almost all his other work over the past six decades.” (If only he’d copyrighted it.)

“Throughout his over 70-year reign, the French king directed a self-portrait campaign in medals – the petite propaganda that spread his image and victories across the continent. However, that didn’t stop his enemies from mocking his grandeur in the same medium.”