“A group of prominent Norwegian architects who have long opposed the new building are now speaking out to save the original National Gallery, which dates to 1842.”
Category: visual
Crystal Bridges’ First President Leaves To Lead George Lucas’s Planned Museum In Chicago
“[Don] Bacigalupi has been named the founding president of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, to be built in Chicago, with a proposed opening date in 2018. The $700 million museum is funded by filmmaker George Lucas, who created Star Wars.”
The Art World Has Gotten Entirely Too Uptight, Says Jerry Saltz
“Flexibility is life, but lately I keep thinking that the art world has gotten a lot less flexible, and the freedom that I’ve always thought of as completely foundational – freedom to let our freak flags fly and express ourselves, even bizarrely – has constricted considerably. … Or maybe it’s me. Because, to be fair, a lot of this tempestuousness has been happening around moi.”
Going Deep On The Art Of Richard Serra And Martin Puryear
“The experience can be exhilarating, threatening, vertiginous, lonely, isolating, apocalyptic and pleasurable. I remember once thinking this might have been what it felt like to be a lowly Greek foot soldier commanded to approach the impregnable walls of Troy.”
Mass MoCA , Transforming Itself And Its Mission, Will Partner Over The Long Term With Major 21st Century Artists
James Turrell will have 35,000 square feet for 25 years; Laurie Anderson will have installation galleries and a production studio; and that’s just the start.
Photography In Art Galleries Is ‘Flat, Soulless And Stupid’
“Putting up massive prints is a waste of space, when the curators could provide iPads and let us scroll through a digital gallery that would easily be as beautiful and compelling as the expensive prints.”
An Artist And His 3D Printer Create Sculptures So Small, No Human Eye Can See Them
“His works are 80 by 100 by 20 microns and can only be detected on the screen of an extremely powerful scanning electron microscope.”
Creating Cathedrals (To The Arts) With Frank Gehry
“You are not on LSD. All sail and no boat, it’s a vision, one that provoked a perfectly sober, gainfully employed psychologist seeing the building for the first time to respond: ‘I nearly wept in awe. Amazed by how soft, alive and enfolding it is.'”
A Bike Path Modeled On Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
“The ‘Van Gogh-Roosegaarde’ cycle avenue debuted this week just outside of Eindhoven, the design capital of the southern Netherlands.”
North Miami Settles Lawsuit With Former MOCA Board Members
“[The city of] North Miami will keep the majority of the 600-work permanent collection, some of which was donated by board members who left MOCA, … [as well as] $1 million in grant funds and the rights to the ‘MOCA’ name.”