“It’s possible to create a neat and tidy map tracing the progress of American art over the last 50 years. Yes, you can draw some sort of shape connecting Pop Art to Minimalism to Conceptual Art, highlighting the famed (often white and male) artists associated with each. … But it’s a stagnant, small portrait.”
Category: visual
Italy Hid This Leonardo Self-Portrait From The Nazis So It Wouldn’t Give Hitler Magical Powers
“It is said that just before taking an exam, students would do their last-minute revision in the Royal Library above the vault. Legend has it that studying near Leonardo’s genius can somehow rub off.”
Director Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art To Retire
During his 15-year tenure, Michael E. Shapiro led a $160 million, three-building expansion, raised $20 million for acquisitions, established an art conservation center, launched partnerships with major European museums, and founded an award for African-American art and artists.
Museums Clash At Harvard
“‘This was a crime against humanity,’ says Princeton University architectural historian Beatriz Colomina—not known for understatement—about Piano’s treatment of Le Corbusier’s structure. ‘It’s such a mythical building and it is being destroyed by somebody who is a good architect.'”
The Broad Museum Is Really Going To Open, After A Dispute And Delay
“The museum is claiming that the problems have driven up costs by at least $19.8 million and caused the museum to delay its opening by at least 15 months.”
The Poppies At The Tower Of London Are A Trite And Terrible ‘Memorial’
“Nationalism – the 19th-century invention of nations as an ideal, as romantic unions of blood and patriotism – caused the great war. What does it say about Britain in 2014 that we still narrowly remember our own dead and do not mourn the German or French or Russian victims?”
Chronicling New York As It Dies (And Is Reborn)
“‘We have learned that whatever was, isn’t,’ Mrs. Pagremanski said from behind her easel. ‘I once went to the Landmarks Commission and said, “What buildings are coming down?” And they said they never know until the wrecking ball hits. And that was about 20 years ago.'”
The Field Museum Preps Bones By Using – What Else? – Flesh-Eating Beetles
“It’s an interior room, behind two sets of thick doors, on the third floor of the Field Museum, inaccessible to the public. Because if there’s anything worse than flesh-eating beetles, it’s flesh-eating beetles circling a church group from Indiana.”
The Works Of Public, Land-Based Art That May Become Extinct
“Unlike a painting or statue or piece of photography that can be auctioned off into private hands or toured from museum to museum, earthworks are beholden to the land. Weather constantly works against land-based creations, and public art budgets are forced to keep up with not only the effects of time, but the unpredictable elements.”
Did Sotheby’s Cheat The Seller Of A Painting Out Of Millions Of Dollars Due To Misattribution?
“The seller, Lancelot Thwaytes, claims that the auction house did not consult enough experts or sufficiently test the painting before the sale.”