Category: visual

So Oculus Rift offers incredible possibilities for science fiction and horror cinema, not to mention brainless action films. Wait until James Cameron gets his hands on this shit. But what about artists?

“Critics of the Whitney have made this problem particularly clear by their tendency to heap praise on the galleries while expressing indifference or hostility toward the building as a whole—a schizy split often reflecting a division of editorial labor in which the art critic cheers how great the art looks and then hands off to an architecture critic to trash the structure that houses them.”

“The art media properties controlled by Peter Brant, including the century-old magazine Art in America and ARTnews, will be consolidated online at ARTnews.com by the end of the year.” The publications Antiques; Art & Business; Modern; and Skate’s Art Market Research are also included in the plan.

“From Ben Shahn’s anti-H-Bomb design to the Guerrilla Girls’ campaign against gender inequality in art museums, posters have a long history of engaging and informing people through a mixture of artistry, wit, and economy. It would be easy to assume that posters have lost some of their impact in a hyper-connected landscape. But in many ways, the rise of social media has given protest and advocacy posters a bigger audience than ever before.”

The house Linda McQuillen bought for $100,000 was part of Wright’s effort to develop and market well-designed homes at a more affordable level — his first effort to reach a broader audience. Only 16 were ever built, and only 14 still standing.

The MFA expects Matthew Teitelbaum to lead the charge in ambitious programming, acquisition, preservation, scholarship, and fundraising. And, after meeting him at a community breakfast in September and listening to his list of priorities — compiled after he had spent less than 100 days on the job — it is clear that the governing MFA board also expects him to shake the place up a bit, too.

Douglas Druick, who first joined the Art Institute as a curator in 1984, was serving as acting president when he was appointed to succeed James Cuno as director of the institution in 2011.
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“Chicago courtroom sketch artist Lou ‘L.D.’ Chukman has drawn some of the biggest names to ever pass through Chicago’s unfathomably large court system. He’s been working as an artist since 1975, in courtrooms and doing caricatures and commissions.”

“En L’An 2000 (In the Year 2000) is a series of visionary cigarette cards and postcards by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists. First produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris – the cards were distributed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910 – the world of the future in 2000 was plain to see.”

During the Sursock Museum’s $15m (£9.8m) renovation, workers dug a cavernous exhibition hall four stories under the mansion, and built a 166-seat auditorium, workshops for painting restoration and a library housing books, archival photographs, and news clippings. Sursock’s original rooms have been restored with the help of an international group of artisans.