Category: visual

“Artist residencies are typically tied to a geographical place, while this project is anchored in a context and not in one physical location. … Global commerce then becomes the immediate work environment, rather than the fuel for the creative economy in which artists make and sell their work.”

“The development of King’s Cross in London, now about half complete, is the most substantial fulfilment yet of an idea that the best way to transform an urban area, and to improve the lives around it with facilities and investment, is for commercial development to take the lead, while working closely with local authorities and local communities.”

“Gaudí devised new ways of building, with reusable scaffolding, roofs used as terraces, cement beams and the elimination of supporting walls. For each project, he formed a multidisciplinary team in which he encouraged the collaboration of master craftsmen and apprentices with specialists from other fields: chemists, physicists, astronomers, ceramicists, theologians, philosophers, writers, musicians, politicians and bishops.”

The co-founder says the art world should be grateful to the rich and super-rich who buy things at Frieze: “They are supporting museums and the whole system that makes it all work. That means artists can get a good living.”

“Some of these cities may be ancient cultural capitals, but their appearance on the global art stage is something new. And their galleries are not only promoting growing local art scenes but also beginning to deal top-notch works by major Western artists.”

“Three individuals were involved in an attack on an exhibition in Chelsea … in which photographs were defaced, neo-Nazi leaflets dispersed, and a curator assaulted with pepper spray. The assailants objected to the Ukraine-focused section of a photojournalistic show on recent unrest in that country and Syria called Material Evidence.”

“Among the many more obvious side-effects of the protests – the traffic, the lost workdays – there has been an outpouring of communal creativity.” The number-one motif? Umbrellas, which protesters used to protect themselves from tear gas and pepper spray.

Among the 70 attribution changes in Volume 6, Mr. van de Wetering, now making the decisions himself, restores 44 of those deattributions to Rembrandt. He now describes the project’s “democratic” decisions as “unjust.”

“The Indonesian images, discovered in a limestone cave on the island of Sulawesi in the 1950s, had previously been thought to date back only 10,000 years. Anything older would, it was assumed, have deteriorated.” In fact, it turns out, the oldest of the paintings is nearly 40,000 years old. (includes video)

“Call it more evidence of the endless commercialization of design; call it another reason to be thankful Norway never joined the Euro; call it kroner gone kreative.” The country’s own starchitects, Snøhetta, designed one side of each of the new banknotes.