Category: visual

“A proposed five-year collaboration deal between the troubled Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is, to use a critically astute technical term, a big, fat nothing-burger.”

“The long view suggests that while some artists inevitably go up and down in the rankings, especially when it comes to the second best, there are exceptionally few genuine rediscoveries of slumbering giants.”

“Krafft asserts that he is not a racist or a Nazi, but a ‘revisionist’ whose ideas are based in history. ‘I just don’t buy this thing about “2,000 people a day being gassed at Auschwitz,”‘ Krafft claims; ‘it doesn’t add up to me technologically.'”

“The long view suggests that while some artists inevitably go up and down in the rankings, especially when it comes to the second best, there are exceptionally few genuine rediscoveries of slumbering giants.”

“While art has shown relative resilience to the recent global financial crises compared to other asset markets, its fate as a whole is increasingly tied to wider economic events, in particular the expansion and distribution of global wealth.”

“Chief among the concerns are cracks that have plagued the towers for many years. Sensors have been placed around the site to measure variables such as wind and sun exposure. Experts are also measuring the effects that earthquakes have had on the sculptures.”

“The East Building was going to have to close anyway for building repairs costing $38.4 million. But it secured an additional $30 million private gift to carve out new space, which will mean that when it reopens, visitors will find more exhibition space and a rooftop terrace with stellar views of Pennsylvania Avenue — ideally well before the 2017 inaugural parade. The gallery will spend $68.4 million on both projects.”

“The renovated space will include two sky-lit interior Tower Galleries and an outdoor sculpture terrace overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue.”

The organization “is now in turmoil amid accusations, detailed in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Delaware state court, that one of the four people who run it took more than $300,000 in unauthorized fees for investment services and was assisted in misappropriating the money by another foundation director, Ralph E. Lerner, a well-known art-world lawyer.”

Jonathan Jones: “Thomas Heatherwick’s Olympic Cauldron has won the South Bank Sky Arts award for the best British work of visual art in 2012. Yet the Cauldron is not a work of art, and Heatherwick is not an artist.”