“”We are able to expand our mission and do even more for the profession of journalism and press freedom,’ he said. ‘That’s a great legacy for Norman Rockwell.'”
Category: visual
Workers At London’s National Gallery Come To An Agreement, End Strike
“Union members had been on strike for more than 100 days in protest against plans to switch visitor services to a private company. PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said he still opposed privatisation, but had been unable to prevent it.”
The Future Of Landscape Design
“Over the past decade, Hayes, 56, has become known for her blown-glass terrariums: biomorphic bubbles that house miniature ecosystems of ferns, bonsai, crystals and flowering plants. In creating them, Hayes reinvented a Victorian concept—the portable greenhouse—by giving it a curvy shape and a pristinely futuristic aesthetic.”
World’s Clumsiest Art Thief Found Dead In London Canal
Sebastiano Magnanini, 46, was convicted in 1998 of stealing an altarpiece by Tiepolo from a church in Venice. “[He] was 24 at the time, and the theft – characterized as an operatic farce by the Italian news media – alarmed some in the country and fanned debate about how to protect treasured artwork.”
First-Ever Nasher Prize For Sculpture – Worth $100,000 – Goes To Doris Salcedo
“A seven-member international jury made up of artists, curators, and museum directors selected Salcedo, a [Colombian] sculptor and installation artist whose politically charged work, in her words, aims to ‘connect worlds that normally are unconnected, like art and politics.'”
Museum Directors Release Plan to Help Provide Safe Havens for Endangered Antiquities
“Under the protocols outlined by the Association of Art Museum Directors, owners whose works are endangered because of terrorism, violent conflict or natural disasters could request that the items be held by a member museum until conditions improved enough for their safe return. Once transferred, these works would be treated as loans, an arrangement that would assuage those concerns that the pieces would never be repatriated.”
London’s National Gallery Workers Strike Drags On…
In August, about 200 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union began an indefinite strike, which has led to “limited public access” to some areas of gallery. “I’m very hopeful that the strikes will come to an end quite quickly,” director Gabriele Finaldi said at his first press conference on Tuesday. “I think that would be good for the public and our staff and for the gallery’s image too. Above all we want to return to our normal operation.”
After 30 Years, Major Restoration Of The Acropolis Is Almost Done
“The overhaul is far from merely cosmetic. An earlier restoration misguidedly used iron clamps to strengthen the marble on the edifices. These are rusting at a rate of knots and being replaced with titanium rods, all of which are removable, in case future generations want to fiddle further. Chunks of broken marble are being shored up with new stone and columns rebuilt. It is also a cataloguing project: every stone has been noted and listed.”
Grand Rapids’ Art Prize, In Its Seventh Year, Is Finding Its Voice
The targeted investments, impressive lineup of jurors and new curatorial initiatives are attracting higher-level artists and creating more trenchant thematic exhibitions that exist like self-contained planets within the ArtPrize universe.
Herzog And De Meuron Reveal Plans For New Vancouver Art Museum
“In the design, the 310,000-square-foot gallery is a tall, distinctive monolith. In drawings it appears as a stack of slabs, growing bigger at the middle and then smaller again at the top; some of these boxes are wrapped in wood-and-glass screens, others almost entirely in wood. An inukshuk? An Inca temple in the air? Pick your likeness.”