“I want people to be proud of this place and not feel as if they live in the shadow of L.A. We want to help them make work, and make money. We aim to be an incubator for artists and want to be in a position to commission work.”
Category: visual
Too Fragile To Open, The World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized
“The revealed pages include eight categories of subjects illustrated by 50 different artists and calligraphers, with birds, plums, orchids, bamboo, fruit, stones, ink drawings, and other miscellaneous imagery, each followed by a text or poem.”
Sotheby’s Didn’t Make As Much Money Last Quarter, But It Has A Plan
“‘Our contemporary group has identified some areas where we can be doing a lot better,’ [new CEO Ted Smith] said, suggesting he might increase Sotheby’s efforts and resources in the United States and overseas, and change the way it related to consignors.”
The Broad Museum’s Storage Vault Will Open (Some Of) The Unhung Collection To Visitors
“The vault was conceived as the heart of the $140-million museum. It allows the Broad to store or exhibit 99% of its nearly 2,000-object collection on-site, where it’s all surprisingly accessible to the staff. That’s a game-changer logistically for the museum, as planning exhibits and lending works to other institutions will be far easier, giving the collection more international play.”
Frank Gehry Is Focusing On The Water, Not Landmarks, For The L.A. River
“They came to see me and said they were heading up a committee for Mayor Garcetti and said we have this wonderful river, 51 miles, and that if we could brand it, give it visual coherence, it could become something special.”
Frank Gehry Is The Wrong Architect For The Revitalized Los Angeles River
“Not that he’s going to clad the entire 52 miles of river in hyper-reflective steel panels OH GOD PLEASE SAY NO. It’s just that Gehry’s work so rarely provides true public space and doesn’t show many gestures to the natural environment—both of which are the most important things the river will need to do.”
Tate Britain Attempts To Turn Visual Art Into Multi-Sense Experience
“The exhibition features cutting edge technology, including binaural and directional audio to produce 3D sound, a perfume release system to engage the sense of smell, and state-of-the-art haptic technology to recreate the sense of touch.”
How Plans For Google’s New Headquarters Could Change How We Think About Offices
“Google has come up with an entirely new idea for the office of the future. The hugely ambitious design breaks open the hermetic office park, dramatically lowers energy use, and invents demountable structural components that could vastly simplify future renovations or retrofitting. These innovations could transform architecture.”
Did The Gardner Museum Theft Have A Dry Run The Day Before? New Video Suggests So
“Never-before-seen video released Thursday shows a security guard admitting an unidentified man into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the night before the infamous 1990 art heist, adding a stunning new clue to Boston’s most enduring mystery.”
If The Old Masters Had Had To Write Artist Statements
Jan Vermeer: “The Guitar Player constructs a Calvinist phenomenological epoché in order to systematically criticize Counter-Reformationist assumptions of irreducible and harmonious existence. Through simulation and prediction it also examines the participant’s failure to oppose the dominant cultural projection of ataraxia.”