Category: visual

“The opponents lack standing to intervene in the reorganization pending before the court, they have offered no viable alternative and they are seeking court-ordered relief that is beyond the scope of the law, the [museum’s] lawyers said” in a legal brief that called the lawsuit “obstruction for the sake of obstruction.”

“The Corcoran issued a layoff notice to all of its employees last month, but the Corcoran expects about a third of them will actually be laid off as of Aug. 16, which is the effective date affiliated with the notice.”

A 1945 memo to the Corcoran’s trustees lays out the difficulties that the museum would face due to competition from the taxpayer-subsidized National Gallery, then only four years old.

Founder Peter Murray explains how the park once accused of desecrating the countryside is now 2014 UK museum of the year.

“Every time a fluted column or pedimented doorway gets in the way of a future gallery, the same problem crops up: how to make a grand old building more rational and efficient without neutralizing its ­idiosyncrasies—how, in other words, to make it better without ruining it completely.”

“Concerned about the emotions she’d suffer, her staff packed her off to a house in the woods. But rather than mourn the departure of her creation, Ms. Walker ought to take heart from her contribution to the grand tradition of ephemeral art.”

“It is rather extraordinary that the four angels should turn up. Having these angels associated with two of the most famous names of English history, never mind 16th-century English history, is really rather astonishing.”

“You might have thought that the gossipy Twitter feeds, paparazzi glossies and video cameras in every phone would have obliterated the public appetite for goggling at mere reproductions of fame. But paradoxically, more people than ever are visiting Madame Tussauds waxworks around the world.”

‘Fink trusted what he saw and arrived downtown to find locked doors. MOCA, he learned, is in fact closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, not open seven days a week as his Google search suggested. Traffic hadn’t been too bad, so the futile round trip had cost him only about 75 minutes.’

“No program indicated that these images should be captured. Rather, a person — often, with a DSLR you could buy at a store — saw something on the surface that caught their attention, focused the camera, and took a picture.”