Category: visual

“The Museum Tower, a 42-story condominium in Dallas, borrowed cachet from the neighboring Nasher Sculpture Center to brand itself and sell $4 million apartments.
Then it proceeded to fry the museum’s art with the glare from its glass walls.”

“The Detroit Institute of Arts announced this afternoon that it won’t join the dozens of creditors and others who are filing formal objections to [the] city’s eligibility for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Today was the deadline to file objections.”

“Four years ago, the American Museum of Natural History agreed to return to the Apaches 77 objects from its collection … But none of the items have gone back because of an unusual, if persistent, disagreement with representatives of the Apaches over whether the museum will officially designate the items as sacred relics that should never have been taken.”

“Moscow’s chief architect Sergei Kuznetsov issued an ultimatum, demanding that Foster take a more active role in the project and prove his commitment by coming to the Russian capital within a month.”

As the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge project “heads for a Labor Day opening after $6.4 billion and 15 years, the country’s most daringly iconic highway bridge stands as a poster child for those who think major infrastructure projects are wasteful.”

“The Free Press has learned previously undisclosed details of Christie’s contract with the city, including that up to 3,500 works could be appraised. Among those are 300 on view as part of the permanent display, including iconic works by van Gogh, Matisse, Rembrandt, Bruegel and others.”

Yes, this is happening: Rat-catching cats in imperial servant dress, in portraits commissioned by the museum’s magazine.

James Meyer “stumbled into a position with Mr. Johns that lasted 27 years. During that time, he also tried to make his own name as an artist with works whose influences included suburbia and Dostoyevsky filtered through the techniques and sensibilities of Mr. Johns.”

“The near-lifesize figures on the wall at the Red House, now buried in south-east London suburbia at Bexleyheath, are now believed to represent the joint work of Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his wife Elizabeth Siddal, Ford Madox Brown and Morris.”

A Russian architect threatens to fire Foster’s company if he doesn’t come to Moscow soon — but Foster + Partners claims to have resigned in early June.