Category: visual

“This summer, China also unveiled the world’s largest building in terms of floor space in the western city of Chengdu. The New Century Global Center edged out the previous record-holder, the Dubai airport.”

“The C.S.A.’s have flourished in larger cities as a kind of organic alternative to the dominance of the commercial gallery system and in smaller places as a way to make up for the dearth of galleries, as a means of helping emerging artists and attracting people who are interested in art but feel they have neither the means nor the connections to collect it.”

The artist “seems to champion traditional painterly values – colour, texture, space – while bringing to them a sense of unease” – and that has earned his paintings record-setting sales.

“Perched in an office high above MoMA’s garden, where her exhibition will insert stealthy recordings of bells, Ms. London explained that artists are more than ever drawn to sound art, maybe because it sits on the exciting double cusp, as she said, of both music and gallery art.”

The new director sure hopes to transform the place with a capital campaign and expansion – and the effort, in what seems a nod to the Tate, is called “Sydney Modern.”

“With an activist’s sense of urgency and an academic’s insistence on rigor, Barry Bergdoll prodded the architectural profession to confront difficult issues, reaching out to young designers and extending over them MoMA’s canopy of prestige.”

Terry Teachout: “It’s only a matter of time before a less pusillanimous liberal commentator [than Peter Schjeldahl] reminds us of the pithy words of Bertolt Brecht: ‘Grub first, then ethics.’ Anybody who doesn’t want Detroit to sell its art must be prepared to go up against arguments like these. What’s more, the counterarguments will have to persuade locals who know how it feels to call the cops and get a busy signal.”

“Art Rules is a new platform for online conversation about what art is, isn’t and should be; about how best to make art and survive as an artist; about what to aspire to, read, or avoid like the plague.”

“After two months of hectic coverage, I call upon journalists to resist the temptation to jump to disaster scenarios or to make the D.I.A.’s singular and highly complicated situation part of a broader story about the structural challenges faced by museums in general.”

“I’m very conscious that our European peers, with significant government funding, have been starting various initiatives around the world. I’m also very conscious that we’re all increasingly thinking globally because of digitisation, cheaper travel and the greater mobility of our audiences.”