Category: visual

How James Kelly managed both to forge his boss’s work and to swipe some originals.

The president of Kunstmuseum Bern’s board of trustees “said the museum would seek to set a new standard in handling Nazi-looted art, by having a privately funded team of experts comb the history of each piece before it came into the museum’s possession.”

“As much as PHP code and ‘The Hacker Way,’ art is a fundamental part of the Facebook culture. Art doesn’t just decorate Facebook’s offices, it defines them.”

“If a woman is sitting as far away from you as she possibly can, not making eye contact with you, completely turned so that her back is to you, clutching a bouquet of flowers and staring longingly at a plate of figs and wine, she wishes to be left alone with food/”

“The missing [Francis Bacon] painting, not recorded in the catalogue, is the key, Muir believes. ‘It was a study of two men wrestling in the grass. Wrestling was popular among the gay community in London, where homosexuality was still illegal, of course.'”

“The new Prussian palace could end up being nothing more than an unattractive concrete box besmirching the banks of the Spree — and just as unsightly as the asbestos-ridden building controversially torn down to make room for it.”

“This is yet one more powerful reason why museums should not be in the business of showing private collections that haven’t been given to them. The Museum of African Art would have a great deal more freedom to distance itself from Cosby if it owned or were certain to own the art rather than having it on loan.”

“More and more artworks define and dictate the time their audience must give them. Too many videos are made like feature films, with a start and finish, and the clear message that you need to watch the whole thing to understand it. Performances too can be like plays, with a defined start and end. This is so wrong – like those weird old photos of 1960s audiences primly watching happenings.”

“The campaign, which officially starts Saturday, includes a $40-million upgrade to the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, adding 8,000 square feet of new gallery space to the building that houses the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.”

The world’s richest art competition, with $200,000 prizes awarded by jury and public vote, is stretching beyond its Grand Rapids home for the first time. ArtPrize Dallas, which will be administered independently, will open its first edition in April 2016.