Category: visual

“Around San Francisco, tech entrepreneurs who spent years building businesses and accumulating wealth are starting to peer out from under their hoodies and explore the art world. … It’s a lucrative emerging market that is gaining the attention of museums, dealers, consultants and other art-world heavyweights.”

“Kahn, a conjuror of strange, monumental forms that have the gravity of ancient ruins, was one of the most influential architects of the 20th century – yet, even after that film, he is still one of the least known.” Why?” Says one architectural historian, “His strange, quasi-religious utterances were all rather irritating to me and my generation.”

“The availability of diverse materials, and the use of new color schemes and modern styles are reviving this tradition and in the process helping to create a sense of cultural identity.”

“On March 27, 1954, Barton Kestle, first curator of modern art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, boarded a train for Washington, D.C., and was never seen again.”

“From overlooking distances to rights to light, every aspect of a new building has been quantified and calibrated before the designer even sets pen to paper. But does all this red tape hinder architects, or are these the kind of constraints under which creativity can thrive?”

“Leonardo Live,” the 100-minute cinemacast that gave a tour of the paintings in a popular London exhibit as guided by a couple of hosts and a selection of talking heads, played in almost 500 U.S. movie theaters in a one-night-only showing, selling more 100,000 tickets, according to BY Experience.

Just since Thanksgiving, the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums, which runs the DeYoung and Legion of Honor and has been without a director for 14 months, has dismissed the longtime staff photographer, the curator of European art, and both members of the exhibitions design department.

“As Los Angeles undertook massive freeway expansion in the latter half of the last century, aesthetics were sacrificed for efficiency when the car ascended as the primary mode of transportation. Yet there is a shift occurring in Los Angeles today, one indicative of a larger trend towards multi-modal transit with a renewed emphasis on beauty.”

“For the last decade or so, one of New York’s most curious and controversial pieces of public art has been hiding, Oz-like, behind a big green curtain.”

They’re valuable but so frail that they would ruined if they went on display.