Category: visual

“That building is a disaster. Well no, disasters are interesting. One World Trade centre is a non-event. It’s vanilla. It looks like something they would build in Canada.”

“You are constantly in storytelling mode. And storytelling is what we do here at the Met. With two million square feet of gallery space and tens of thousands of works on view, at any given time, we can ask, ‘What stories can you tell?’ about each item.”

“The Art Institute of Chicago plans to experiment with 3-D printing to reproduce artworks and allow visitors, like those with Alzheimer’s disease, to explore the texture, scale and other sensory elements of objects in ways not otherwise possible.”

“Part of [David] Hockney’s charm as a painter — and person — is a certain resilience or even insouciance, an unwillingness to abandon pleasure and beauty in the face of troubles.”

The Black Stars of Ghana “will provide art professionals, scholars and practitioners as well as art lovers from all over the world the chance to get to know the different artists and protagonists of the Ghanaian contemporary art scene.”

“I suddenly got what the reaction to Banksy is about: It’s being part of the reaction to a Banksy. It’s a multiplying communal occasion, friendly, a way to talk to strangers and share a piece of New York. It’s anti-Establishment, anti-capitalist, and anti-art-world enough to add a frisson of libertarian rebellion and take-it-to-the-street cred.”

“The chairman of the Cleveland Museum of Art confirmed Wednesday that an extramarital affair with a museum employee, who committed suicide in April, led to David Franklin’s resignation on Monday as the institution’s director.”

“After years of irrelevance, it has reclaimed its spot as one of the world’s premier events for contemporary art.”

“Clarifying four decades of legal vagueness, the Bloomberg administration has amended New York City’s lease with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spelling out that the Met is allowed to charge a suggested admission fee, as the museum has done since 1971 under an agreement with the city.”

“By giving people a new type of forum to consider their trip to the museum-one where a personal experience and subjective opinion is all that’s expected of a given reviewer-it effectively offers a safe space for regular people to think and write about their encounters with art.”