Category: visual

You might, for example, wonder why they seem to think it’s better to use the word “notion” than “idea”, or the word “narrative” than “story”, or the word “interrogate” than “ask”.

“Handling what is known in the philanthropic world as donor intent is vexing for many institutions. How do you adhere to a donor’s wishes when they seem to interfere with the best interests of the institution?”

The late painter bequeathed Corot’s 1870 portrait The Italian Woman or The Woman with the Yellow Sleeve, now at the National Gallery, and three Degas sculptures – Horse Galloping on Right Foot, The Masseuse, and Portrait of a Woman: Head Resting on One Hand – currently at the Cortauld.

“A spokesman for the Leopold Museum in Vienna [said] that there was a request by an association from Germany for a nude guided tour: ‘We thought about it, and decided it would be a good idea to have a special nude viewing open to the public’.”

“The art that emerged in the early nineties could not have been more different. It came from all over the globe, and it wasn’t as painting-centric or flashy. It was being formulated in small groups fed up with over-commercialization. Many of these artists were influenced by conceptualism, feminism, theory, and Pictures Art, but they turned away from making work about art, commodities, or pop culture.”

“On one hand, it’s a total abstraction of the news, a sort of grand meta statement on the news itself. On the other, it’s really just a distilled version of what matters to us, right now. All the installation is doing is projecting chiron text.”

“After the resulting photograph was published in the magazine, Koch liked it so much that when his mayoral term ended he asked that a print of it be hung in City Hall in lieu of the traditional, commissioned oil painting.”

Guardian (UK) readers create stories for the mysterious model … or was she the real painter?

“Donald L. Bryant Jr. is dismissing recent accusations that he is trying to go back on a pledge he made to the Museum of Modern Art and the artist Jasper Johns that he would donate three important paintings by Mr. Johns to the museum.”

“Under its ancien régime, the foundation didn’t offer special shows. It didn’t have room at its Merion gallery, but more to the point, such activities were anathema to founder Albert Barnes and his acolytes.”