“Museums will have to pay upfront for orphan images, or images whose copyright owners cannot be found, after an amendment to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill to limit proposals was narrowly defeated in the House of Lords.”
Category: visual
Is Ai Weiwei Even An Artist Anymore?
Jonathan Jones: “Ai Weiwei is the most important artist in the world right now, a visionary who is defying an entire political system. He is a hero. And yet, is he actually an artist at all? Has his art vanished into the storm of polemic?”
A New Museum On Mexico City’s Millionaires’ Row
The Jumex Collection, a five-story building designed by architect David Chippenfield to house the contemporary art collection of fruit juice magnate Eugenio López, will open in November – right next door to the Museo Soumaya, the museum built by billionaire Carlos Slim Helu.
Street Art Booms In São Paulo
There are painted murals, crochet coverings for tree trunks, conceptual art “microscripts” pasted around construction sites – there’s even a service that connects graffiti artists with the owners of buildings with empty walls.
Italian Bureaucracy Threatens Pompeii
“In recent years, collapses at the site have alarmed conservationists, who warn that this ancient Roman city is dangerously exposed to the elements — and is poorly served by the red tape, the lack of strategic planning and the limited personnel of the site’s troubled management.”
Prominent Architects Oppose MoMA Expansion Plan
“The public has a substantial and legitimate interest in this decision, and the Museum of Modern Art has not yet offered a compelling justification for the cultural and environmental waste of destroying this much-admired, highly distinctive twelve-year-old building.”
Live Goats, Leis, Marching Bands, And Bongs: L.A. MoCA’s Very Strange Gala
“It seemed only fitting that the MOCA gala celebrating the opening of Urs Fischer’s new chaos-skirting show, organized under the ‘creative direction’ of the crazy-making artist Rob Pruitt, would have a Dada sort of anti-logic. In other words, it was one weird night, packed with preposterous events and odd gestures that never quite connected.”
Pimp My Walk: The Fabulous Canes Of 19th-Century Flaneurs
“Now, here’s an interesting walking cane. It was made in Holland sometime in the 19th century. It has an ebony shaft and is 35 inches long. The top features an ivory finial depicting a four-inch-high man with muttonchops. The man is squatting, and …” (Er, we’ll leave it there for now.)
Degas And The Circus: How The Hell Did He Do That?
“The architecture gave Degas trouble–he is supposed to have asked for help from an architectural draftsman–but the pose of the aerialist, seen from below, arms outstretched and legs bent back, was determined early on.”
This Is Cornwall, And Ye Shall Know It By Its Celtic Cross
“”We hope it will become an iconic landmark, our version of the Angel of the North, so people don’t just pass by Saltash, but go in.”