Category: visual

The 81-year-old director of the project, who resigned less than three weeks ago (ostensibly due to ill health), and “six other people were arrested as part of an investigation into the alleged rigging of contracts and fraudulent invoicing.”

“A documentary shows how a 2010 design contest became ‘probably the largest non-Orthodox, non-Israel centered public expression of Jewish life in the history of New York’.”

“You can see the evidence every year at any art college exhibition across the country. There is, without doubt, an unwillingness to paint; the medium is seen as too traditional, over and done with.”

“London’s answer to New York’s High Line park began to take shape in June after two London architecture firms won a competition to design a landscaped walkway just south of the River Thames that will link new and existing galleries, public works of art and an open-air auditorium.”

“Giant words were found spray-painted on the landscape in the Myvatn region of north-east Iceland in April. It is unclear who was behind the spray-painting, which the Environment Agency of Iceland described at the time as ‘nature terrorism’.” Then Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière had a photo exhibition of the spray-painting at a Berlin gallery. Hm.

You’d think tales of nausea and vomiting would turn off art fans, but “the public seems to have an appetite for a mass-scale gross-out.”

“Planned to be 60 storeys and 750,000 square feet, Telus Sky is a forceful and sophisticated argument for 21st-century urbanism. Its design, led by the well-travelled Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, is a tower with a twist.”

“It’s a complete disaster,” said architectural historian Alexandre Cojannot.

But the artist’s revealing statements about collectors, color, depression and more will now be published, 72 years later.

“For one glimmering moment late last month, the Iranian capital was the talk of the world’s art market after 80 works sold for $2 million, astonishing a country whose economy is battered by Western sanctions but still has pockets of wealth looking for investment havens for their money.”