Category: visual

A lot. “That’s roughly one for every citizen of the country of Liechtenstein. It’s also more than double the number of museums that, back in the 1990s, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) expected to exist in this country by the year 2014.”

At £31.7 million, the 1906 Nymphéas was the highest-selling item in a £122 million ($208 million) London auction that also included works by Picasso, Kandinsky, Chagall, and Mondrian, as well as two other Monets.

“Is it a giant cocoon? The site of a pagan ritual? Or a 60-tonne pebble? Chilean architect Smiljan Radic breaks new ground with his creation for the annual experimental commission” in London’s Kensington Gardens.

“Bursting out of the river in the form of two conjoined mushrooms, it would create a floating forest between Temple and the South Bank, held aloft on a shimmering copper canopy. It is scarcely less improbable than the heroic failures that have gone before – and yet it seems very likely to happen.”

“White as an iceberg and nearly as blank, she presides over the park entrance at Michigan and Madison with a commanding view to the west.”

“The National Gallery in London is on the hunt for a new director after Nicholas Penny announced his intention to retire after six years … in which visitor numbers reached record highs.”

The museum in The Hague reopens on Friday “after a €22m renovation and expansion project begun in 2008,” and its director hopes that being back in business, and the return of the famous Vermeer from a world tour, will remind people that Girl With A Pearl Earring is not, in fact, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

“What was an iconoclastic gesture has become an icon. Whatever the readymade stood for during Duchamp’s time, and for Duchamp, is no longer of any value.”

“This was a group of talented kids with open eyes and minds who knew what they liked and what they didn’t. They were opinionated and they were brash. They were radicals. It wouldn’t even be wrong to consider them revolutionaries. The only question is why a bunch of young revolutionaries would want to make art that looks backward.”

“Let’s face it sometimes it’s not about you; it’s about who you know. Relationships are important to artists and it’s never too soon to start developing them.”