Category: visual

“The teams rely on decades of experience, handcrafted tools, and creative techniques to fashion their massive sculptures. The team members are sculptors and artists and designers, but also doctors and lawyers. Though they spend weeks each year carving, nobody makes a living doing it.”

“The British Iraqi, who is a former winner of Britain’s Stirling prize and the international Pritzker prize, said it was frequently assumed that a woman architect could not take on a big commercial project and that she was better suited to residential properties, public buildings or leisure centres.”

“The most talked-about painting in the 1913 Armory Show deconstructed a human figure in abstract brown panels in overlapping motion. Marcel Duchamp’s Cubist-inspired Nude Descending a Staircase was famously described by one critic as ‘an explosion in a shingle factory.'”

“‘Don’t touch the painting!’ a guard yelled out of habit, until he, too, noticed the installation in flight. He moved swiftly, just as the students did, toward the LeWitt, and then there were six palms touching the work, committing the cardinal sin of gallery-going.”

“The dealer was left in the lurch and the art lost, until the suspect tried to make another purchase from the dealer, leading police to arrest him for suspected fraud–and recover the art.”

“By the time they scatter Friday, over $776 million in art will have changed hands, a 17% increase from last year and a total that by most accounts is considered a rousing success.”

It’s “part of an ongoing effort to give back hundreds of looted artworks that still hang in the Louvre and other museums.”

“You won’t find a decent musician without a manager in this day and age. Yes, they have a record label that makes their work available, maybe advances them money to make it, but their manager stands between the artist and the label. Same with… artist, gallery and manager. There’s no real difference.”

“New York deserves better, not flashing signs, decorative paving stones and more of the same, in perpetuity.”

“We are also learning a lot about how to market. For example, last year’s Roy Lichtenstein exhibition would probably have drawn 120,000 visitors three years ago. With some reservations, I promised the trustees 175,000. We ended up with 350,000, by being very bullish on advertising.