Category: visual

“Overall the effect is like Judd’s sculptures — sparse, deliberate, rectilinear and non-organic.”

One campaigner for the large Victorian-era market site: “Smithfield was the scene of many martyrdoms – this would be another.”

The L.A. County Museum of Art has proposed a huge new building to replace four on its current campus. But what works about the buildings that are already there?

“Although the Aboriginal art market is estimated to be worth A$200m ($186m) a year, indigenous artists have not traditionally seen their share of the wealth” – but those artists make up 60 percent of those benefitting from the new royalties.

“The actual numbers and whereabouts of Picasso’s sculptures are outdated and often incomplete. His own dealers and foundries never kept good records on the numbers of bronzes they cast from his plaster molds, because the art-world custom before World War II was simply to fill orders as they came in from collectors.”

“Glafira Rosales, the art dealer at the centre of the scandal that has embroiled both the now defunct Knoedler gallery and its former director Ann Freedman, was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on 17 July on charges that she sold Knoedler and another gallery more than 60 paintings that were fake, that she knew they were fake, and that the statements she made about their authenticity and provenance were false.”

“The panel noted that the sheer volume and variety of the collection make preservation more challenging by the year.”

“Under British law, foreigners who buy art that’s more than 50 years old and ensconced on U.K. soil can see their purchases vetoed if two conditions are met.”

“When I was a student, in the ’60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation,” he said. The prototype house he’s designed for the furniture company Vitra isn’t quite that small, but it’s not far off.