Category: visual

“I wanted to be surprised and proven wrong about the Björk show. Alas, I haven’t been. … It’s a discombobulated mess.”

“She probably should have trusted her first response – No thanks – when the Museum of Modern Art came calling … not because her work isn’t museum-worthy but because, as proved here, the Modern is not up to the task..” What’s more, “given the number of Björk fans it will probably attract, the show’s future as a logistical nightmare seems clear.”

“Van Gogh loved the vibrant lead pigment colors, and the red in “Wheat Stack” turned out to contain a rare mineral lead called plumbonacrite that through light exposure was gradually coated in carbonates that were causing the discoloration. Or, in less science speak, the paint particles are now like if you had a gobstopper with the red core inside and a light blue layer and then gray layer on the outside of the particle mass.”

“It may be the business has gotten too tricky for just one person to run it.”

Dustin Yellin resolved to take the allotted cash, in the forms of twenties, fifties and one hundred-dollar bills, and shred the loot in a wood chipper. He then used tweezers to apply the massacred dough to emulsion-covered canvasses.

“At a time when anyone with an Instagram account can become a de facto reporter, the controversy raises questions about what viewers should know about photos classified as journalism — and where one of the world’s most respected photo prizes draws the line between documentary photography and art photography.”

“Art has always posed a problem for Facebook. Its community standards ban nudity, and the combination of algorithms and overseas workers that scan the site for infractions have trouble distinguishing between an artistically nude image and a pornographically nude one. … Now it seems New York magazine’s art critic Jerry Saltz has been caught in the net.”

The 5,000-strong workforce is expected to swell to 7,500 over the coming months. “We shall deliver the building at the end of 2015,” its architect Jean Nouvel tells The Art Newspaper. “Then a few months will be needed to set up the inner structures and hang the works,” he says. The museum’s official opening date, which has not yet been set, will be in 2016.

The latest in innovation. “The $136 million project is expected to open in 2017. The curving, oblong — and of course futuristic-looking — building will feature poetry written by the Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the Emirati prime minister.”

“If you watch the video – which is, of course, what the Islamic State wants you to do – you’ll notice that several of the pieces disintegrate into a cloud of white powder as they hit the ground. That is plaster not stone, the experts say: Those statues are modern replicas. At one point, you can also see metal rods sticking up through the broken legs of a standing figure, another clue that piece is modern.”