Category: visual

“The Board of Trustees announced they had voted against the Working Group’s report, which, among other things, suggested the school reduce faculty’s salary expenses, sell the school’s sole resident hall and slash the president’s salary.”

“The Valencia authorities threatened to sue [Santiago] Calatrava last month after chunks fell off in high winds, forcing the closing of the building ahead of Christmas performances and the cancellation next month of Puccini’s ‘Manon Léscaut,’ directed by Plácido Domingo.”

Donna Tartt’s bestselling book inspires fans to converge on the small museum, which has more than doubled its membership during the show that features the painting from the novel.

How did this happen? Glenn Brown basically reimagined Chris Foss’ work — although it looks as though all he did was repaint it, and fool around with the colors slightly.

From global expansion to artist collaboration to increased curiosity about Central and South America, the American museum world is opening up.

Tearing down New York’s Folk Art Museum: “Mine is not necessarily a view that everyone can accept: to many observers, the Folk Art building seems, like all too many museums these days, to be a grand-scale sculpture that fails to showcase the art it was built to house. But if that is MoMA’s opinion, then it should say so, which could help stimulate a worthwhile public discussion on the aesthetic of architecture.”

“The architects who are designing this destructive expansion — Diller Scofidio + Renfro — understand perfectly what they’re doing, and it causes them genuine grief.”

“Somewhere inside me, I heard myself saying my good-byes to MoMA. I thought, I have seen the best modern museum of my generation destroyed by madness.”

Natalia Goncharova and her husband left Russia in 1915 to work with Diaghilev; after the Revolution, they never went back. With a big retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery, art lovers in Goncharova’s homeland and beyond are getting a fresh look at her work.

“The analysis that we undertook was lengthy and rigorous, and ultimately led us to the determination that creating a new building on the site of the former American Folk Art Museum is the only way to achieve a fully integrated campus.”