Category: visual

“The growing body of museum audience research suggests that people visit museums for a variety of reasons, different visitors may seek diverse experiences from the same museum, and one visitor may even seek diverse experiences in different visits to the same museum.”

“It was very risky. We evacuated the manuscripts in cars, carts and canoes,” says Dr Abdel Kader Haidara, who launched the operation in October, frequently concealing the metal boxes under crates of vegetables and fruit. “One car could only take two or three metal boxes at the most. So we did it little by little.”

“Plans to move the Munch Museum to a new glass structure on Oslo’s waterfront finally got the official green light on Tuesday last week – four years after the Spanish architectural firm Herreros Arquitectos won the competition to design the new building.”

“The tension between national representation and artistic subversion runs throughout the Biennale. It is expressed most powerfully in many of the pavilions and projects outside the Giardini.”

“The blurred artworks in the Google Art Project look like glitches, but exist due to pragmatic legal decisions and stem from Google’s immersive method of documenting museum and gallery spaces.”

“Naming him as the best artist in the Encyclopedic Palace show in the central pavilion of the 55th international art biennale, the jury praised Sehgal ‘for the excellence and innovation that his practice has brought opening the field of artistic disciplines.'”

“When museums aren’t free-standing institutions, as is the case in Detroit, the larger entities that control them sometimes can’t help but see dollar signs. The van Goghs are just hanging there, waiting to be put up for auction.”

“Marinello stopped short of suggesting that the buyers had not wanted to know about doubts over an artwork’s legality: ‘Perhaps it’s the excitement of getting a good deal.'”

“L.A. has never been known, in any case, for experimental civic architecture. With the exception of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall and a handful of other projects, most of our architectural breakthroughs have been private houses.”

“This change reflects not just the growth of a demographic able to afford art but also a change in attitudes. … Those who belong to the ‘balinghou,’ or post-’80s generation, are accustomed to spending hundreds of dollars on entertainment, holidays abroad and luxury purchases.”