Category: visual

“Many dealers said that they believed that American museums in particular were feeling more flush than they had in past years because their endowments had been well invested in today’s rising stock market.”

“Sales are more than double the number of advance tickets of the museum’s previous exhibitions.”

“Last week Rob Bishop [R-Utah] introduced legislation seeking to reject the current design by Gehry … and invite new proposals for the memorial while eliminating $100 million of future funding.”

“His inviting, even voluptuous forms come from a painstaking attention to circumstances. He topped sober marble cubes in a funeral hall in Japan’s Gifu prefecture with an undulating roof that seems to dance.”

“In virtually all cases, families with such heirlooms would be better off passing them on to family heirs or selling them. (Donate the cash to the museum and save a lot of trouble for everyone!) Many buyers would be thrilled to have the not-quite-museum-quality art on their living room walls. At least it would be seen.”

“The painting, which is dated to 1635, shows Rembrandt at the age of 29, wearing a black velvet cap with ostrich feathers and a decorated velvet cape.”

At the Seward House Historic Museum, the central attraction used to be a Thomas Cole painting. But “early one morning last month movers escorted by the police pulled up to the house, removed the Cole landscape, which measures roughly 7 by 5 feet, from the drawing room and hauled it away.”

“The 71-year-old Ito is the dean of Japanese architecture, though with his mop of black hair he looks many years younger. He is best known for his 2001 Sendai Mediatheque, a seven-story glass box of a building that was dramatically shaken, though only lightly damaged, by the Tohoku earthquake two years ago.”

“Big Air Package — a massive, inflated fabric dome standing 90m high and 50m across — completely fills Germany’s Gasometer Oberhausen, a huge former natural gas holding tank that was converted into an event space and exhibition venue in 1988.”

“A federal judge will decide next week whether the U.S. National Slavery Museum’s largest creditor can move forward with a lawsuit involving deed restrictions on the museum’s property.”