“Fashion houses are on an accelerated quest to connect to the international art scene. In these conspicuous displays of cross-branding, fashion looks to art for gravitas while fashion offers art the cool factor.”
Category: visual
Long Missing Van Gogh Painting Discovered In Tax-Evasion Raid
“The safe-deposit box was one of more than 100 targeted by Spanish officials in a tax-evasion investigation. The painting was discovered unframed in the box, El Mundo said.”
How Did Glasgow Become An Art Powerhouse?
“How has a declining post-industrial city, with practically no art-collector base, with important historical collections but skeletal contemporary institutions, become so culturally dominant in the UK and, indeed, in Europe?”
The Art In New York That’s Designed To Fall Apart
“Unlike the rest of the High Line, which has earned plaudits for its precise architectural design, the last section will open to the public with a temporary walkway running beside grounds left in their natural state, with weeds and rogue plants borne from seeds blowing around” – and the decaying works of art.
In Los Angeles, The Fruit Tree As Art
“Whereas a bronze sculpture in the park was only going to reach and impact so many people, planting trees throughout the community was going to nourish a greater number of people.”
After An Argument With Renzo Piano, Architect Quits On Academy Of Motion Pictures Museum
“Sources say the imperious 76-year-old Piano, 1998’s recipient of the Pritzker Prize (the highest honor in architecture) who has been an icon in the field since his joint design with Richard Rogers on Paris’ Centre Pompidou in 1971, clashed with 53-year-old Pali over unspecified creative and practical issues related to the project. “
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“There is no need to go to a gallery or deal with frosty gallery owners. Instead, art can be viewed, paid for and returned if it does not match expectation.”
What Artists Are Doing Wrong – And How They Can Fix It
“There are so many possibilities. So many mistakes that artists make – like not taking the business side of art seriously or only taking it seriously in the middle of a crisis when, as I mentioned in my last post, it is too late. Or romanticizing the ‘starving artist’ notion. Or allowing themselves to become resentful of other artists’ success. I could go on.”
Young Dealers ‘Discover’ Artists Old Enough To Be Their Grandparents
“In some cases, dealers are rediscovering bodies of work that were considered unfashionable when they were made but are now back in style.”
Connoisseurs Versus The Art Restorers
While protesting since the early 1990s against the cult of “scientific” conservation and its disparagement of “subjective” aesthetic judgements, we have throughout commended a return to proper and rigorous applications of connoisseurship.