Category: visual

Not with lawsuits at stake. “Unless there is change in the legal system to protect art historians’ expert opinion–as with that of doctors, for example–‘it’s going to be very dicey’ to speak out.”

A new study says it’s all in the finger length. The study’s author: “There has been a male bias in the literature for a long time. … People have made a lot of unwarranted assumptions about who made these things, and why.”

“In the dark days of the second world war, Rockwell played a critical role in helping Americans on the home front understand what was at stake in the fighting going on in Europe and the Pacific.”

“Scads of artists are trying to be junior postmodernists. A phalanx of work has appeared that might be called “Modest Abstraction” or “MFA See, MFA Do.” It’s everywhere, and it all looks the same.”

“A stolen painting by the Dutch artist Jan Schoonhoven (1914-94) was jointly bought in London at Sotheby’s contemporary art day auction on 27 June by two galleries” – and an expert working for one gallery spotted telling details in photos sent by the other.

A hundred or so traditional kingdoms once occupied the lands that are now Africa’s most populous nation. Those royal families still exist; their kings still retain some moral authority – and some truly fabulous textiles. Photographer George Osodi has been criss-crossing the country to capture their majesties on film.

“Seeing 3-D printing as a sort of gateway drug en route toward molecular manufacturing, I thereafter decided I’d visually/literally relate the operative ideologies, promises, and hype of 3-D printing to the R&D and forecasts regarding nanofacture.”

The 1975 drawing was lent out in late 2010 by the Miro Foundation in Mallorca for a show in San Sebastion. But the Foundation didn’t realize the drawing was missing until the following year, and didn’t report it to the police until this August. The police found it within a month. (Guess where.)

You think the U.S. Mint’s new $100 bill is impressive? “Perhaps nothing that rolls out of our ATMs will ever compete with the patriotic phantasmagoria of Kazakhstan’s currency, which looks like what would happen if you gave Robert Rauschenberg the keys to the Office of Printing and Engraving.”