Category: visual

“A French appeals court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the descendants of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim, who had sought to gain more control over how her Venice museum is managed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. It was the third attempt by relatives of the philanthropist to challenge the display of the collection amassed by Ms. Guggenheim who died 36 years ago at the age of 81.”

In Manhattan alone, Bjarke Ingels is simultaneously designing four major additions to the Hudson River skyline and a $335 million hybrid park and flood defense system known as the Dryline along the East River, offering a collective opportunity to leave an enormous personal imprint.

“A cardboard box labeled, ‘Slinky, Wrench, Razorblade, Bullet, Comb, Can Opener, Many Metal Pieces’ rests open on a workbench. Meanwhile, Roger Browner, Man Ray’s nephew, sits in front of a decade-old iMac looking for an object, per my request.”

“A French court ordered the Palace of Versailles to cover anti-Semitic graffiti from the artist Anish Kapoor’s installation there this weekend, after a local politician, Fabien Bouglé, filed a complaint that Mr. Kapoor and the palace were inciting racial hatred by leaving the vandalism intact.” Kapoor is not happy: “I feel like a girl who was raped and who is told to go get dressed in a corner.”

“[The Paris museum] was unable to open on Tuesday for the first day of its much-discussed exhibition, Splendour and Misery: Images of Prostitution 1850-1910 … The institution’s labour union voted to strike this morning at a general meeting, in protest against a plan to keep the Orsay open to the public seven days a week, starting in November.”

The new building by architects Herzog & de Meuron — linked to the existing structure by the vast Turbine Hall — will add 60 percent more display space for the gallery’s collection of modern and contemporary art.

“The vice chairwoman of the Missouri Republican Party apologized Sunday for what she described as a ‘thoughtless act’ that involved her writing on a business card atop a Thomas Hart Benton painting in the Missouri Statehouse.”

The British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid has abandoned her attempt to re-enter the race to build the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, two months after her initial design was scrapped amid soaring construction costs.

“Some of the stories, which are told in song, can be painted for public consumption, but others are too sacred or powerful to be revealed to outsiders. ‘My land, my country,’ said Mr. Tjapaltjarri, the only English words he uttered during an interview, pointing at a painting with a circle made out of dots.”