Category: visual

“No intelligent person thinks that art should be seen exclusively through a binary gender lens or bracketed in a category of “women’s art.” So how does all this continue?”

“The fatalist mood of that weekend and the images that memorialized it have never truly faded. Primal material for artists, filmmakers, television shows, they have driven numerous paranoid thrillers that rely on plots about assassinations, often with the assassin himself at risk of ending up dead.”

“Early Tuesday, under the cover of night, painters quietly blanketed much of the walls of 5Pointz with whitewash, erasing the work of hundreds and seemingly putting the final nail in the long battle between the building’s owners, who plan to erect luxury apartments, and the artists who fought to save it.”

“Where Jan van Eyck might have used convex mirrors to create a larger field of view on his canvas, Hockney turns to a modern equivalent: video cameras.”

“A rambling pile of high Victoriana, with a cartoonish PoMo extension and other well-meaning insertions, Tate Britain has long suffered from an identity complex, standing as a confused muddle of bits. Successive architects have each brought their add-ons, but few have spared much consideration for the whole – until now.”

“Lest we get too excited about what the museum is billing on its website as “one of the broadest and most diverse takes on art in the United States that the Whitney has offered in many years,” let’s look at some numbers.”

“Though there are other venues for contemporary art in the Mexican capital, the Jumex, with its high-profile location and deep-pocketed patron, is likely to do more than any other to bring a shock of the new to a city largely defined by its vast troves of pre-Columbian, colonial and 20th century masterworks.”

“It took jurors only three hours on Monday morning to convict [Vilma] Bautista on conspiracy and tax fraud charges stemming from the sale or attempted sale of the paintings, which disappeared in the 1980s, when Ferdinand Marcos was ousted as president of the Philippines.”

Qatar has unveiled renderings of the first of the stadiums to be built for the World Cup tournament the kingdom will host in 2022. Zaha Hadid Architects and AECOM say that their design is inspired by the dhows that traditionally sailed the Persian Gulf, but the collective Internet thinks otherwise.

When Matthias Waschek became director of the Worcester Art Museum two years ago, it was a conventional small-city museum conventionally fading away. In two years, he’s fundamentally changed the way the museum displays its art (less Met Museum, more Barnes Foundation) – and enlarged the donor base and increased attendance by 70%.