Category: visual

But Frank Gehry, who lives in Santa Monica, says of his Disney Hall in L.A.: “It’s the one building other than my house that I get to use — a building that I’ve designed that I get to use.”

Painter Jack Vettriano: “Critics don’t take sex seriously. They think it’s not real art. I will disagree to the day I die.”

“Architects are exposing infrastructure, including electrical systems and piping, and embedding QR codes into columns so students can learn about the building’s history with a curious scan with a smartphone.”

“He wanted his design to protect the idea of the concert hall as refuge — but also to embody the essential informality of Los Angeles. He wanted to demystify and democratize classical music.”

“Ruscha’s books have been widely influential among artists, who have adopted their disaffected look. But their influence also extends to architects: Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and Frank Gehry.”

Why, it should “establish a storage facility in the north of France that would house most of the museum’s vast 460,000-strong collection,” of course.

“A misguided — and perhaps underhanded — move is afoot to dismantle Paul Conrad’s “Chain Reaction,” a 26-foot-tall sculpture that has stood in place in the Santa Monica Civic Center since 1991.”

“The Tate’s annual report reveals that almost eight million people visited the art museum’s four galleries in 2012-13.”

“The return to Cambodia of two tenth-century Khmer sandstone sculptures, which had been displayed for nearly 20 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, … is now shining a spotlight on the degree of damage to Koh Ker and raises questions about a number of masterpiece sculptures in public and private collections.”

“Eli Broad said Tuesday that he won’t continue giving $3 million a year to his new museum’s across-the-street neighbor, the Museum of Contemporary Art, ending his five-year run as its primary funder.”