“I was weirdly moved to see the original model for Brasilia by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa. In our day and age of fancy digital fly-throughs and massive 3-D printed models, there is something touchingly small and hand-made about this model: the Cathedral looks as if it could have been rendered out of toothpicks and the grass appears to be made from some sort of felt.”
Category: visual
That Time An Artist Who Wanted To Photograph And Challenge Queer Identities Got A Little Overwhelmed
“I honestly thought that the project would be a small collection of 50 or so photographs, but the response to the project was so profound that I decided to expand it and travel to several US cities like New York City, Portland, Chicago and soon Austin to photograph more people. I imagine that this will be an ongoing project for me throughout my lifetime.”
Nepal’s Only National Art Collection In Deep Jeopardy After Earthquake
“The country’s only permanent art collection is stuck in NAFA’s badly damaged neoclassical building, which dates from the 1930s and may collapse at any moment.”
Whatever Happened To Chicago’s Big Keith Haring Mural?
“When the project ended, the media attention dissipated, the students returned to their regularly scheduled high school programming, and after a couple additional days during which he painted two more murals at Rush University Medical Center, Haring went home to New York. The Grant Park mural stood for about a week before it was dismantled—and that was the last time it was ever displayed in its entirety.”
Art And The Cherished American Right To Do Something Stupid
“Congress has made no law abridging the right of free speech for this or any of the other hack artists. The show itself was proof enough of that. But neither is there a law that requires liking their cheap propaganda.”
When Big Architectural Firms Get Too Big
“Though small firms long for the workload stability that large firms can achieve, the management of the multiplicity of talent spread globally can be extraordinarily difficult. A large firm can form a 100-person team of engineers and architects for an infra-structure project in Hong Kong, but day-to-day it finds it has too many mechanical engineers in Singapore and not enough in Chicago.”
Henry Moore Foundation To Artist: Do Not Use Moore’s Work To Make A Political Statement – Not Even In Photoshop Mockups
“Three years ago, Kansas City-based artist A. Bitterman proposed moving a vacant, dilapidated house, located in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, to the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum … In place of the house, Bitterman suggested, the museum should install its prized Henry Moore sculpture Sheep Piece (1971–72). The house and the Moore lie on opposite sides of Troost Avenue.” The proposal recently resurfaced in the press, and Moore’s people are having none of it.
Boston Unveils an Enormous, Rainbow-Colored Spiderweb
“The untitled piece hangs above the Rose Kennedy Greenway and was made by local artist Janet Echelman … Though it appears lightweight, the 600-foot-wide entanglement weighs 2,000 pounds and required 100 miles of rope and a half-million knots.”
Jerry Saltz Shares A Dozen Stories Of Sex In Museums
“Museums are incredibly sexy spaces to me, but I have never had sex in a museum. Over the years, though, I’ve heard from those who have. … So I asked people on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram if they’d send their stories or reports of sex in the museums. Here’s just a few of the stories I got back.”
How Having Your Work Successfully Sell At Auction Can Hurt Your Career
“It can be a curse when artists appear early in their career at auction with high prices. This increases expectations and pressures that they cannot always cope with.”