Category: visual

“If you love art, you must be glad that thousands of people are supporting it by going to “Dismaland.” If you love cultural expression generally, you must be glad millions of people are participating in it on the Internet. But when you see bad expression praised as good — when your Facebook friends share a sarcastic news report, or a millionaire street artist puts mouse ears on an actress and tells her to frown — you must also feel some injustice has been done.”

“The limestone coffin [is] estimated at 1,800 years old and discovered last week during work on a new neighbourhood in coastal city Ashkelon … The contractors who encountered the find opted to extract it themselves with a tractor, damaging it before hiding it beneath a stack of metal sheets and boards.”

Fortunately (if that’s the word), the taggers included their names and the university they attend. (includes video)

During a 40-year career in the arts, Charles Desmarais, 66, has been a curator, museum director, writer and art school president. When he joins The Chronicle in November, he will succeed Kenneth Baker, who retired last spring after 30 years as the Chronicle critic.

“We don’t think of Picasso as a sculptor, but we should. He was a great one. In the years after that summer with Braque, Picasso performed a vivisection of 500 years of Western spatial perspective.”

Not surprisingly, what once was a lively and socially diverse spot, where local families — including some from adjacent low income neighborhoods — mingled with museum visitors, was vacated. The adjacent Lilly Nursery was also empty.

“[Alfred] Taubman, who died in April aged 91, was a billionaire real estate developer who bought the UK auction house in 1983.” His collection includes works by, among others, Picasso, Modigliani, Gainsborough, de Kooning, Pollock, and Jasper Johns.

“If you want at least one final look at the eight paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts that are owned by the late billionaire businessman and philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman, then you’d better hurry.”

“On Monday, the fall semester began for USC’s sole MFA art student, a woman from South Korea on a fully-funded scholarship and educational visa. … Last May, the once-lauded program suffered a devastating blow when the entire class of 2016 left the school in protest of alleged broken promises and a perceived corporate takeover of the program.”