Category: visual

“A review of Dutch art stretching back to 1933 is seeking to establish if 139 pieces on display in museums across the country were snatched from Jewish families during the Holocaust.”

“The tower, known as 53 W. 53rd Street, will feature 145 luxury condominiums, along with the biggest expansion for MoMA since 2004: 36,000 square feet of new gallery space on the museum’s second, fourth and fifth floors.”

“I can’t believe they have gone for such a saccharine picture. Jane Austen was a supreme social satirist, and some of her writing was quite dark, but they’ve chosen a picture that makes her look a really cosy, middle-class writer.”

“In a recently amended complaint filed in New York State Supreme Court, the Calder estate says” that Klaus G. Perls and his wife, who represented the sculptor for 22 years before Calder’s death in 1976 – “surreptitiously held on to hundreds of Calder’s works and swindled the artist’s estate out of tens of millions of dollars.”

“The approach here has been, rebuild bigger, better, faster, but there’s a real danger to that.”

“Scientists at the Delft University of Technology in Holland have been beavering away to try and produce 3D reproductions of artistic masterpieces. They have built a scanner that records depth and colour in such incredible detail that some say it results in a printed picture that has all the complexity of the original, down to the appearance and indentation of every pocket, lump and bump of paint.”

“Dealey Plaza is instead a curious mixture: part high-traffic intersection, part gateway to the city, part flood-control project, and part accidental historical monument.”

Banksy’s web site features a picture of the wall with a caption: “Today’s piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times. But they declined to publish what I supplied. Which was this…”

They “see it as something of an outrage that a hobbying painter – particularly one whose most famous films have been described as outright anti-Soviet propaganda – could be given pride of place in one of Russia’s most prestigious museums.”

“The danger of auction houses muscling in on galleries’ turf was vividly illustrated last week at Christie’s when collector-dealer Charles Saatchi dumped 50 large sculptures from his collection, several by artists with little or no auction history, on the market.”