“The debate illustrates how Olympic stadiums engender more passion than almost any other buildings, and how the massive, expensive public projects become potent symbols of architectural prowess and economic pride — structures in which countries invest nothing less than their national identities.”
Category: visual
London Architects Working Against The Skyscraper – And Toward A Parisian Version Of The Capital
“Working from offices wallpapered with copies of the Times from 1957 in the picturesque historic town of Dedham, they are the antithesis of their modernist rivals in central London studios. But their latest scheme confirms them as a spearhead of a growing movement for an alternative urbanism.”
Christo May Get His Arkansas River Project After All
“Members of Rags Over the Arkansas River, also known as Roar, filed the lawsuit, contending the project threatens bighorn sheep, public safety, traffic on US 50 and businesses that depend on the scenic river.”
Doctors Turn To Art To Hone Their Skills
“A number of medical schools have adopted courses to train doctors in observational skills by studying great paintings. Physicians say the practice can help them become more observant, inform them about how society viewed medical conditions in the past, and connect them with the craft of medicine at a time when their profession is increasingly shaped by technological advances.”
The Art Newspaper’s Five Predictions For The 2015 Art Market
Economic chaos! Dealers endangered! Leaderless sale rooms!
Macedonians Form Human Chain To Protect Modernist Building From Added Baroque Façade
“The protest was part of a series of events starting in 2013 that have attempted to stall this aspect of the creeping Skopje 2014 project, a controversial and costly plan to give the city’s buildings makeover in the neoclassical or baroque style.”
Jeff Koons Faces Another Plagiarism Accusation In Paris
“A second sculpture by Jeff Koons is conspicuously absent from his retrospective at the Centre Pompidou after a photographer’s widow complained to the art star and the museum’s administration that Naked (1988) constituted copyright infringement.”
As Shaker Design Gets Ever More Famous, The Largest Shaker Museum Struggles
Attendance at Hancock Shaker Village in the Massachusetts Berkshires “is down by nearly a third compared with a decade ago, to about 50,000 visitors a year. Donations and government support have also dwindled. The annual budget, never particularly robust, has been cut by a quarter, to $1.6 million.”
Should Museums Be Forced To Disclose Everything About Where Their Money Comes From?
“No clear distinction can really be made between money that comes from ‘good’ sources and money which comes from areas that some people consider ‘bad’. Public funding itself is far from pure. It often comes with strings attached.”
Free The Calder In The Senate Office Building!
“The four, black aluminum clouds comprising the once-mobile component of Mountains and Clouds – one of the final works of sculptor Alexander Calder, which dominates the Hart Senate office building’s 90-foot-high atrium – haven’t drifted for more than a decade. They once rotated at a gentle speed, but have been frozen in place for years after a bearing failed.” Now one senator is trying to get the sculpture moving once more.