Category: visual

“Astoundingly, given the generations of artists that New York has nurtured, the Judd building is the first fully preserved artist’s house-museum in Manhattan.”

“A group of citizens, who now call themselves Friends of Shift, urged the city to provide legal protection for the sculpture, which is not accessible to the public but is often visited by trespassing art lovers.”

“The first challenge was finding artists in a country where making paintings or sculpture might seem at best a secondary concern compared with keeping body and soul together. But [Tamara] Chalabi, one of the figures behind the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, was determined to dent the mainstream western ‘Newsnight version’ of the country.”

Rather than suggest what it would prefer artists to be doing, a photography department, in Quentin Bajac’s view, has to reflect what they are actually doing. “Photographers can be nostalgic. Curators cannot. We have to follow the artistic practice.”

“Half of the 66 rooms at London’s National Gallery were closed on Thursday, while one floor of the National Portrait Gallery was closed. Tate Liverpool’s galleries were closed to the public completely.”

“Even before its opening day, however, the Bienal del Sur–not to be confused with the long-troubled and much older Bienal de Panama–was characterised by disputes, boycotts and the deportation of an artist.”

“Munich’s standing as one of Germany’s major cultural centres has been consolidated this month with the reopening of the city’s renovated Lenbachhaus Museum … [following] a four-year renovation plan overseen by Lord Norman Foster’s Foster + Partners architectural firm.”

“Velvet Underground, the 1960s avant-garde rock band, has settled a fight with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over the rights to an iconic pop art image of a banana that graced the band’s best-known album.”

“In New York, we’re always late and we think of waiting as a waste. How could you turn that into a positive attribute and actually come there early and spend more time?”