Category: visual

“For me, this is ‘Arte de Conducta’ — Behavior Art — and it’s a piece that is decided not by the artist but by a political condition. It was like a test to see how ready everyone was to create a new behavioral dynamic. Right now, people have an on/off button that they turn on and off when something like this happens. I wanted to change that reaction.”

“Shafer Edwards uses alcohol-based markers to sketch out courtroom scenes on a 9″ by 12″ pad of paper. She doesn’t use pencils to outline and she never erases. ‘I love the stress. I love the immediacy, the spontaneity,’ she says. ‘There is a buzz. There is this electricity that goes on.'”

“Right from the start, Butler was dedicated to showing work that explored new directions, that was in opposition to trends of the time, work that she felt passionately about regardless of its financial viability.”

“The average museumgoer in the US, Canada, and Mexico spends $7.93 during her visit (the average museumgoer must not be in New York City), while the museum spends $53.17 on her, according to the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).”

“Sculptures have the face or head smashed and the eyes gouged out. The faces of paintings are often removed and burned. Far more art has been destroyed in the name of these four religions than has survived. Looked at through this prohibitive lens, it’s a wonder that any religious art survives at all.”

“Let’s face it, despite the perceived divide between working for ‘non-profit’ and ‘for-profit’ institutions, there are more similarities — perhaps especially in the art world — than most might want to admit.”

As soon as the architect became a member of the Italian Senate, “he handed over the office, along with his government salary, to six much younger architects and asked them to come up with ways to improve the periferie – the often run-down neighborhoods that ring Rome and Italy’s other major cities.”

“[The two auction houses] all but gave up guarantees in late 2008, after the effects of the financial crisis spilled into the art market. … That auction house guarantees have come roaring back, despite the risks, is a reflection of the largely hidden turmoil in the art market.”

Graham “Beal’s retirement comes after an extraordinarily stressful 18 months during which the DIA found itself an unwitting pawn in the city’s bankruptcy saga.”

“As also happened during the Gilded Age, critics today have raised questions about these new museums’ devotion to their own communities, whether regarding accessibility or admission fees. But what has not been examined so thoroughly is what will happen to these new institutions on the death of the founder or the decline in their collecting activity.”