Category: visual

The 63 participants in the upstart exhibition … come from more than 30 countries on six continents. … They include architects whose designs range from a luxury Mexican house made up of pentagon-shaped pavilions to the painting of abandoned houses in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood in such colors as ‘Currency Exchange Yellow’. Some, like Chicago’s Jeanne Gang and the Danish firm BIG, already are well-known. Others have built little but have big ideas.”

“The Whitney likes to treat their artists right. If you have a piece in the collection, you’ll never pay a dime to access the museum for the rest of your life.”

“The rise of modernism rendered the Orientalists old-fashioned; later on, the fall of the European empires and the rise of cultural criticism made them politically incorrect. But now Orientalist art is having something of a comeback.”

“Prosecutor John Durham said that Gentile had discussed a sale of paintings stolen from the Gardner museum. He did not provide further detail on what came of the purported discussions. Gentile has not been charged in connection with the missing artwork.”

“The show, ‘Asynchronous Reading,’ features several telephones placed throughout the gallery, each offering a different message. As one woman picked up a vintage telephone and listened intently, Erdrich couldn’t help but smile.”

Peter Nelson: “Obviously it didn’t change anything in terms of government policy – mandatory detention still exists. I think we’ll have a better way of seeing how all this stuff all plays out in 10 years time.”

“Larry Bender has spent 20 years covering up graffiti in and around the L.A. area. He’s a professional ‘graffiti buster,’ splattered in paint, who drives around the city on the lookout for tags.”

“Taubman gave tens of millions in cash to the DIA as a lead contributor to three major fund-raising campaigns. … The DIA will certainly be a beneficiary in his will, though even some among the museum’s top leadership said Saturday that the nature of his ultimate gifts to the DIA remained unclear.”

“At 11 p.m. [Tuesday], activists from groups including Occupy Museums and Occupy the Pipeline gathered on the street in front of the museum for a performance art-style demonstration about a natural gas pipeline that is adjacent to the $422 million building and its vast art collection. A corner of the Whitney’s building became a canvas for their slogans, projected in light over the glassed-in lobby.”

“The Bloch Family Foundation will finance a nearly two-year, $11.7 million renovation … The new space will bring into public view 29 works from the personal collection of Henry and Marion Bloch, a gift of paintings promised by the family in 2010 in connection with the museum’s 75th anniversary.”