“Most locals might still be in a state of baffled amusement that the DIY handiwork of a young London-based architecture collective, Assemble, in doing up some of the area’s empty homes has been shortlisted for the country’s most prestigious art award.”
Category: visual
Who Will Be The Next Director Of The Brooklyn Museum?
“Whoever is selected will inherit an institution whose endowment roughly tripled during Mr. Lehman’s tenure, to $123 million. The museum’s annual operating budget has more than doubled, to $35 million, and its audience is both young—with a median age of 34—and diverse.”
The Man Who Has Painted A Picture Of Obama Every Day Of His Presidency
“On the day that Obama was inaugurated in 2009, Pruitt made a 2-foot-by-2-foot painting of the president, based on a photographic image taken from the news and rendered in a subdued palette of washed-out red, blue and white. The next day he painted a second. The next day he painted a third. The next … well, you get the idea.”
Christopher Knight: The Whitney Museum Misrepresented My Criticism
“I can certainly understand why the Whitney Museum might be embarrassed by a review critical of its institutional failure with the 1993 Biennial. But posting a fallacious sign 22 years later merely indicates that the institutional failure continues.”
Ha – TV News Broadcast Blurred Out Abstract Breasts In Picasso Painting While Reporting Its Sale
When a Fox news station reported on the record-breaking $179 million sale of Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O) at a Christie’s auction, it outdid itself by blurring out the abstract breasts in the painting.
Claim: Altering A New York Cultural Landmark Is Sure To Ruin It
“It is our obligation to preserve for future generations the essential experience of the Four Seasons that its creators originally intended. Simply put, our obligation and that of the Landmarks Preservation Commission is to treat the Four Seasons like the world-class landmark it most certainly is.”
The Art World’s First Billion-Dollar Auction Week
“On Wednesday, Christie’s said it sold $658.5 million worth of work at its postwar and contemporary art auction, added to the $705.9 million for 20th-century works auctioned off on Monday. The billion-dollar threshold was a symbolic coup for Christie’s and seemed to widen the divide with its rival Sotheby’s, even if actual profits were unclear.”
Greece Says It Won’t Sue To Get Back Parthenon Marbles
Greek Culture Minister Nikos Xydakis on Wednesday said Athens would not seek court action against the museum but preferred a “diplomatic route.”
A Different Way To Think About Museum Deaccessioning
“As old fashioned as it sounds, and with as many mistakes as have already been made over the past half century or so, it may well be that art museum collections should only be assigned dollar values for insurance purposes and with the understanding that the loss of the collection is the loss of the museum’s reason for existence. As someone once remarked, Grant’s tomb without Ulysses S. is rather pointless.”
Can The Guggenheim Win Over Reluctant Finns? (And Why The Answer Matters)
“In the art and design world, the fate of the prospective museum has become a matter of global import: with everyone from the Louvre to the Hermitage looking to set up outposts abroad, Helsinki has become the latest battleground in an ongoing conflict over how – and whether – small cities and emerging countries should accommodate expansionist mega-museums.”