Delcho Delchev “is one of the founders of a nonprofit group called Transformers that has been trying since 2009 to brighten up this former Soviet outpost with low-budget civic art and design projects.”
Category: visual
There Goes The London Neighborhood, And All Of Its Galleries Too
“Cork Street has been built up over the years and relies on a mix of different galleries. We are the victims of a kind of commercial fascism, where those making decisions based on profit feel they are unaccountable.”
Power Architecture Couples, Formerly Friends, Now Divided Over MoMA
One couple built the American Folk Art Museum, and now, a few years later, the other couple (plus a partner) have proposed demolishing it. “Henry Smith-Miller, an architect who studied with Mr. Williams at Princeton, said the fallout resembled ‘Greek drama.’”
How The Artworld Is Reacting To MoCA’s Choice For A New Director
LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art is troubled. In trouble. So the choice of a new director means more than it would in a usual leadership transition.
How Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Got To Be Ubiquitous
“Flower painting has a long history, but no other flower, Bailey argues, is so strongly associated with a particular artist as the sunflower is with Van Gogh.”
Norman Foster to Design Major New Skyscraper in Philadelphia
The tower, a major expansion of cable giant Comcast’s headquarters, will be the eighth tallest building in the U.S. and the tallest outside New York and Chicago. Inga Saffron is impressed by the plans.
See Some Renderings Of Norman Foster’s Philly Comcast Tower
It’s tall and skinny and textured and very open and well-lit.
Who Was It That Paid $142 Million For That Bacon Triptych?
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t one of the prime suspects, but it was close.
Crystal Bridges Buys Frank Lloyd Wright House to Move to Arkansas
As the flood plain in New Jersey seems to rise year after year, the existing owners of the house decided they had no more hope of saving the structure from water damage than King Canute.
That New-Found Portfolio of Egon Schiele Watercolors? Fakes
“The Austrian press went into overdrive last month after reports emerged that a portfolio purportedly by the artist Egon Schiele was discovered in an attic in Mistelbach.” No such luck.