Category: visual

“Shoving items willy-nilly into a closet is not an option. There are strict and often costly standards dictated by the Association of American Museums on how to conserve and store art.”

“The ceramic street artist who created one of Rio de Janeiro’s most distinctive landmarks was found dead on Thursday on the spectacular mosaic staircase in Lapa that he decorated with brightly coloured tiles and mirrors over more than two decades.”

“The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo’s modern and contemporary art museum, announced on Monday that Janne Sirén, director of the Helsinki Art Museum in Finland, will become its next director. Dr. Sirén is believed to be the first director from the Nordic region to take the helm of a major American art museum.”

“The collapse of Damien Hirst’s career is not a sign of the end of money in art, of course. Money and art will always be intertwined. But Hirst’s breakup with Gagosian does signify the end of a kind of obsession that saw nothing other than money.”

“Its 40-page strategic plan, titled “Here I Am,” explores stories of gay men and lesbians and their searches for identity, among them lesbian performers at Harlem blues clubs in the 1920s, young demonstrators from the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York and John Fryer, a gay psychiatrist who advocated for homosexuality to be de-listed as a mental illness in 1972.”

At the art-centered 21c, hotel guests (if they want to) can experience “the most immersive cultural experience one can imagine in the roped-off world of high-end painting and sculpture.”

Well … “It’s an optimistic, maybe naive hope to get people into the streets again.”

“The techniques developed in Cleveland — if successful — might be adopted later by bigger museums on the coasts, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, they said.”

“There is something American about this view of history as cumulative individual experience. But it would be a mistake if the museum’s focus on the United States completely eclipsed other national experiences.”

“It is a kind of lighthouse in London. It is quite a surprising element, and providing surprise and wonder is not essential, but it is not a bad thing to do.”