Category: visual

That’s what the Croatian city of Pula did eight of the mammoth machines. Lighting designer Dean Skira’s Lighting Giants uses 73 LED spotlights that can be programmed to make about 16,000 different patterns. (includes photo essay and video)

“Although it sometimes seems hard to believe, the payment of artists remains a major issue, not just here in the US but also in the UK, as the Paying Artists reports make clear.”

“Patrick Vialaneix is that rare being – a thief motivated by the love of art. He says he fell in love with the painting when he saw it at the age of 13 and regularly visited it from then onwards to stand rapt before the genius of Rembrandt. Finally, he worked out how he could use his skills as a security technician to steal it.”

“Laurent Le Bon, the director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, is the new head of the Musée Picasso in Paris. The appointment … follows the dismissal of Anne Baldassari last month.”

Perhaps the “global” mega-exhibition, once consistently exciting, is fast becoming a tired art world trope.

The donors filed a court motion says that the donors took advantage of tax benefits by giving art and money to the nonprofit, and that they “could face potentially significant negative tax consequences” if the art were to remain with the city.

“Memorials are now sprawling both physically and conceptually—and becoming unnecessarily expensive in the bargain.”

The nine-bill package, passed with large bipartisan majorities, “makes pensioners as whole as possible and protects the Detroit Institute of Arts from having its artwork seized and sold off,” said one state senator during debate.

“Guo Jian, who lives in Bejiing, was taken into custody earlier this week by Chinese authorities after giving interviews with the Financial Times and other foreign media outlets in which he discussed a Tiananmen-themed sculpture that he was creating. Separately, artist Chen Guang was reportedly detained by authorities after presenting a performance-art piece about the 1989 Tiananmen protests.”

“The flagship museum of the billionaire financier and art collector Eli Broad, still under construction, has filed a $19.8 million lawsuit against a German company for what it describes as delays in fabricating the building blocks for its unusual latticed façade.”