Category: visual

The group Fathers4Justice: “Everyone is celebrating what the Suffragettes did 100 years ago and now we are doing the same type of thing to get equality for fathers in the justice system.”

“As the supply of splashy paintings by brand-name artists like Picasso dries up, new and enthusiastic Asian collectors are jostling to acquire blue-chip works on paper.”

“When the Suo Jia Cun Artist Village in suburban Beijing, where he worked as a sculptor’s assistant, was ‘forcibly demolished,’ as he puts it, Mr. Liu decided to protest. He camouflaged himself in the ruins with acrylic paints to illustrate resistance to movement.”

“The goal of the [T-shirt] series is to help people rethink the city’s modernist heritage and give people who need no convincing an outlet to display their fandom.”

David Mirvish wants “to erect three 80-storey Frank Gehry-designed condo towers on King Street West. It is a game-changing architectural addition to the urban core that would also include … a museum to serve as a public platform for his expansive collection of modern sculpture and painting.”

“The central mode of [riot grrrrl] communication was the zine: lovingly handwritten or typed manifestos, full of collaged confessions, rants and recommendations, photocopied and disseminated at concerts or by post.”

An aggrieved man with a photograph and glue attacked John Constable’s “Hay Wain” – the UK’s second favorite British painting – at the National Gallery on Thursday.

“Naturally, Los Angeles has more actors, producers and directors and ‘other entertainers’ than anyone other city. But the biggest category of workers employed in the arts here (and just about everywhere else) is actually designers.”

“The city’s most talented and ambitious young architects are struggling to complete even small projects in an increasingly dense and risk-averse city.”

“The players of Oslo’s art world have begun a steep climb to join the ranks of global elite art capitals. The treat-bearing father atop the hill is the government, waving vast largesse from the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. But the route isn’t easy for those involved.”