Category: visual

“We need the money. People are more likely to buy a painting if they think they’re talking to the artist. People don’t want to think I can’t paint and need to have my wife paint. People already think I painted the big eyes and if I suddenly say it was you, it’ll be confusing and people will start suing us.”

“‘I’ll take over the interview now,’ said Ms. Abramović. She was staring right at me. ‘When was the last time you wore a blindfold?'”

“French President Francois Hollande said at a ceremony the museum was ‘one of the most beautiful in the world and one of the most moving because it brings together the considerable and prolific work of the best-known artist of the 20th century.'”

“Mina Gregori, 90, president of the Roberto Longhi foundation of art history studies in Florence and author of several books on the baroque painter, said she was 100% sure she had found the original Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy.”

“Bag End: Home of Bungo, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, in Hobbiton, the Shire, Middle-earth.”

“The arrival of Feature, brainchild of the Montreal-based Association des galeries d’art contemporain (AGAC), was, in fact, described largely positively, as ‘a welcome evolution,’ in the words of Art Toronto director Susannah Rosenstock.”

“Through a succession of dimly lit rooms, the tunnel takes you into the recesses of a sinister chocolate production line turned mad house. Over the rows of chocolate sex toys that fill endless metal shelves, exceptionally large chocolate gnomes are displayed partly lifted from their man-sized molds.”

“We had over 255 online bidders, not for each painting but during the course of the collection of his. There were between 50 and 80 people in the auction room at any one time.”

“On the evening of 8 October 2002, the Metropolitan Museum of Art suffered what its former director Philippe de Montebello described as the ‘single worst thing that has ever happened at the museum’. One of its greatest treasure, Tullio Lombardo’s life-sized marble sculpture of the nude Adam crashed to the stone floor as its medium-density plywood stand buckled and collapsed.”

“What, I ask you, should one expect if one asks artist Paul McCarthy to create a Christmas tree for the place of honor at a renowned, must-attend art fair?” Cat Weaver gives us the bottom line.