Category: visual

“It was a promise that could not be fully kept, given the late start. But the notion of a “West Coast Met” did possess the virtue of audacity.”

“The task is to capture the intention behind someone else’s design — to distill the philosophy of a building into a single, digestible image that transcends explanation. It’s not easy, but when it’s done well it looks effortless.”

“Twenty-nine museum jobs, or 11 percent of the staff, were eliminated Monday in a cost-cutting move orchestrated by Charles Venable, hired in August to be the museum’s director and CEO. Venable wants the IMA to be less reliant on its endowment, which in recent years has fluctuated in value while accounting for 70 percent of the museum’s operating budget.”

“‘We’re trying to leave them looking original, but well maintained … not freshly painted,’ he says. ‘When the colors look too bright, we cheat and add a little black or gray. We say: “Nah, nah, let’s back it up a little, let’s mess it up a bit!”‘”

“‘We’re trying to leave them looking original, but well maintained … not freshly painted,’ he says. ‘When the colors look too bright, we cheat and add a little black or gray. We say: “Nah, nah, let’s back it up a little, let’s mess it up a bit!”‘”

Sure: “The concept of ‘five-dimensional immersive design’ [design that simultaneously addresses virtual and dimensional environments] is key to this: it deals with the liminal space between the virtual and the physical worlds, which is the one in which we will live the most in the future.”

“Something very precious is at stake. Since the late sixties, when the leadership of the school passed to artist Garry Neill Kennedy and his circle of conceptual-art colleagues (many of them coming out of the trail-blazing California Institute of the Arts and other leading-edge art programs in the United States), NSCAD has functioned as a vibrant fulcrum between the U.S. and European capitals of culture.”

“The unusual four-day trip is the latest development in a court case involving [Sotheby’s] and United States officials, who are trying to help Cambodia gain possession of the statue, which it contends was looted from the temple during the chaos of that country’s civil war.”

Those cut “were graphic designers, IT and web specialists, and some worked in registration and exhibitions. The gallery also announced it was creating seven new jobs to help bring in revenue and work in visitor engagement.”

“The painted mural of former Soviet and East German leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Eric Honecker in a passionate clinch is one of the star attractions of the East Side Gallery, the longest-remaining stretch of Berlin Wall and the second-most visited site in Berlin.”