Category: visual

“The new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis will be architecturally notable for a 50,000-square-foot steel canopy that seemingly floats atop and beyond a series of interconnected interior and exterior spaces. … The design firm SO-IL, based in New York, provided the winning look.”

“Museums are a history of mankind. When that history is one that highlights the worst in human beings rather than best, it cannot be positive.”

“The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act theoretically aims to make it easier for companies to publish orphan works, which are images and other content whose author or copyright can’t be identified. But whereas in the past, orphan works were often out-of-print books and historical unattributed photos, today millions of images are quickly orphaned online, as they move from Instagram to Twitter to Facebook to Tumblr without attribution along the way.”

“There’s a million ways to be a woman. There’s a million ways to be a mother. And there’s a million ways to be an architect.”

“The Smithsonian Institution announced last night that parts of three museums – the Hirshhorn, National Museum of African Art, and Smithsonian – will close [May 1] through Sept. 30 because of mandatory budget cuts, but the true effect of sequestration on the museum group is far wider.”

“[The] £135m extension due to open next March to house its new world conservation and exhibitions centre (WCEC) … will allow the museum to move huge swaths of its collection from stores in east and west London back to the museum in state-of-the-art facilities.”

“The Los Angeles-based street artist Thierry Guetta, better known as Mr Brainwash, has lost a copyright case involving a 1977 photograph of the punk rock musician Sid Vicious shot by the British photographer Dennis Morris. Guetta had claimed that the seven works he created using Morris’s black and white photograph … were sufficiently altered to be protected by the fair use defence.”

An intensive eight-year study of his pigments, palettes, canvases and correspondence indicates that Vincent was less manic and more methodical, less radical and (somewhat) more conventional an artist than the tormented, unconventional master of myth. (He was still crazy, though.)

“The Saudi conceptual artist Abdulnasser Gharem plans to set up the Arab state’s first artist-run foundation in Riyadh in light of ‘the art revolution taking place in Saudi Arabia’, he says.”

“She has no use for a beautifully crafted coffee table made from a slice of tree — von Rydingsvard rubs her cedar sculptures with graphite to further obscure their woodiness.”