Category: visual

“In its place the adjacent Museum of Modern Art, which bought the building in 2011, will put up an expansion, which will connect to a new tower with floors for the Modern on the other side of the former museum.” The Tod Williams Billie Tsien-designed structure opened only in 2001.

“Paris’s Louvre museum closed on Wednesday due to a walkout by some staff over a rise in aggressive pickpockets including children sometimes working in gangs of up to 30, staff and management said.”

“Denise Scott Brown worked alongside her husband, Robert Venturi, who was awarded the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize alone for his body of work. But it is widely acknowledged that they did the work together.”

“Gehry hates paper. Not paper itself — just its use in architecture. His company, Gehry Technologies, has spent the last several decades developing a digital system for sharing and working on architectural plans and diagrams and other types of building information modeling, and now he’s trying to share it across the industry, with the help of a new collaboration with cloud-based storage service Box.”

“Art history is being rewritten through the prism of abuse, too. So it was that the Tate gallery has announced that it is ‘reviewing’ its policy on the display of prints by the artist Graham Ovenden and has already taken them offline.”

“Christie’s auction house said Tuesday it had been granted a license that would enable it to become the first international auction house to operate independently in China, which has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest art and auction market.”

“A valuable 15th century Flemish manuscript acquired by the J.Paul Getty Museum late last year has been placed under an export embargo by British authorities, who hope to keep the object in the United Kingdom.”

The Brukenthal National Museum, a six-collection palace in the historic city of Sibiu and the fourth-most-visited museum in the country, has had to partially close. The museum’s director claims that the Culture Ministry has paid only one-tenth of the usual monthly subsidy; the Ministry claims that emergency funding has resolved the crisis and has demanded the director’s resignation.

Modern blockbuster planning is less about art and more about a so-called tourism offering where the words “impressionist”, “Monet”, “masterpiece” and “Picasso” spell instant audience. Everything else is a hard sell.