Category: visual

“At a meeting with the board of trustees on May 19, director Adam Weinberg announced that Scott Rothkopf, 38, is getting a promotion to chief curator. Currently the Nancy and Steve Crown family curator and associate director of programs, his new title will be deputy director for programs and Nancy and Steve Crown family chief curator. The current chief curator, Donna De Salvo, will be moving into a newly created position: deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator.”

“Speaking at the Victoria and Albert museum here on Tuesday, Mark Carney, the governor of the bank, said that artists, sculptors, ceramicists, craftsmen, designers, architects and filmmakers are eligible as long as they are not alive or fictional.”

“For many observers the new wave of public murals represents another example of the way art and culture are playing a key role in reviving the city, attracting visitors and injecting bursts of optimism, energy and creativity into the city that run parallel to commercial development.”

“I had a dreamy first semester — it had a tone of rigor. But we’ve lost that this semester.”

Jennifer Pawluck “was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and 18 months probation. Her community service must be completed within a year. The 22-year-old college student has also been forbidden from posting any public messages on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and must restrict her use of the social media platforms to private communications for the next year.”

“In an age when museums have overtaken churches as the apex of architectural aspiration, Piano is our Brunelleschi.”

“On Tuesday, one of Guggenheim’s grandsons will launch a court appeal to have the Italian collection restored to its original state, claiming it has been ‘diluted’ by art from other sources. Sandro Rumney, who was born in Venice but lives in France, his half brother Nicolas Hélion and their five children, also want ‘protection’ in the palace garden around a plaque marking Peggy’s ashes – a ‘grave’ they believe has been desecrated.”

“On Sunday morning it was hanging, rolled up in a 23-foot tube, over West 77th Street. At the ready were about two dozen people, on the street and inside the museum on Central Park West, prepared for the final hours of an operation that had been planned for months and rehearsed repeatedly.”

“This enormous carpet of glowing colour is some of the oldest and most extensive stained glass in Europe – and so in the world. It was an appalling moment when we discovered that they would all have to be taken down, but it has given us an extraordinary opportunity to look at these figures in such detail – they will never be seen like this again.”

Faith Ringgold: “‘If you live long enough and you persist, you are going to get recognition,’ Ringgold says today. ‘You have to stay in the game.’ Ringgold has not only stayed in the game, she recently designed one of her own, called ‘Quiltuduko,’ for mobile devices. Inspired by Sudoku, the number game, it uses quilt designs instead of numbers.”