Category: visual

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art is planning to rebuild its wing for Modern and contemporary art – possibly from scratch – to create new, showcase galleries for its expanded collection from those periods, Met officials have confirmed.”

“These cities are not cultural centres, but have experienced a boom due to their coal, oil and gas industries. Expensive property investments there have led to a rise in regional and city art museums. But these museums are established with little research or planning and their weaknesses—collecting, staffing, marketing—are later exposed.”

“The Advancing Women Artists Foundation estimates that 1,500 works by women are currently stored in Florence’s various deposits, most of which have not been on public view for centuries.”

“Above all, perhaps, Clark was a brilliant wordsmith, the most seductive writer on art since Ruskin and Pater, whom he greatly admired. Today, when most art historians write as joylessly as lawyers and accountants, such verve is sorely needed.”

“There are very few rules for those hoping to nab a coveted loft space at The Brewery. Namely, no dogs or musical instruments.”

“Ushuaia, the world’s southernmost city, is a full five days’ sail northwest of here at 14 knots. South Georgia is an unforgiving place, and its museum—which preserves the memory of whalers who once lived here, the 175,250 whales who died here, and the final chapters in the life of one of history’s most celebrated explorers—is at the literal end of the Earth.”

“Should all go as envisioned, virtually no changes will be visible from outside the building, aside from staircase enclosures mandated by the city’s fire code, and a redesigned landscape leading to the west entrance … Yet the project will eventually add 78,000 square feet of new gallery space, including 55,000 square feet carved from the schist under the terrace facing the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.”

Msgr. Patrick J. Garvey was rector of the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, where a portrait of Garvey by Thomas Eakins has been hanging for years. Now the seminary badly needs the money from a sale of the painting, but Garvey’s family insists it was a loan and not a gift and is trying to block an auction.

“The Corcoran Gallery of Art will contribute about $48 million of endowment funds and proceeds from a previous sale of precious rugs to help finance the new arrangement under which George Washington University will operate the art school and the National Gallery of Art will receive most of the art, officials said Thursday afternoon.”

“Judge Steven Rhodes ruled today that he won’t allow some of Detroit’s largest creditors to remove art from the walls at the Detroit Institute of Arts in order to inspect and appraise the works as part of the city’s bankruptcy.”