“A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright here for his son was sold on Thursday, guaranteeing its preservation after it had been threatened for months with demolition by its owners, who had planned to replace it with new homes. The deal closed after at least one offer to buy the property had fallen through.”
Category: visual
Free Admission At India’s First Art Biennale Scrapped
“The government is happy that it rakes in revenue by way of tourism and culture promotion. But the Kochi Biennale Foundation is broke and individual artists, who strived for the event, have incurred huge personal debts. … Badly off, the KBF has decided to charge from visitors an entry fee of Rs.50 per adult [slightly less than $1] and Rs.10 per student.”
When Nativity Scenes Go Minimalist
“The scene of the holy couple, shepherds, wise men and attendant livestock – which is not in fact biblically accurate – has become so widely reproduced that it can now be understood even by a simple arrangement of blocks, as a recent wave of minimalist nativity sets has shown.”
India Hosts Its First Art Biennale
In a bid to expand the country’s contemporary art scene beyond the commercially oriented events in Delhi and Mumbai, a new international exhibition has been launched in Kochi, in Kerala on India’s southwest coast.
Works By Foreign Artists Vandalized At Kochi Biennale
“Miscreants vandalised works by two foreign artists who are participating at the ongoing Kochi Muziris Biennale here, an act seen by the organisers as a conspiracy to derail the art event.” Throughout the lead-up to the Biennale, some locals have been protesting what they see as a focus on outsiders at the expense of Indian and Kerala artists.
Mao Paintings Cut From Warhol Shows In China
“Andy Warhol’s famous images of Chairman Mao won’t be part of the biggest ever traveling exhibition of his works when they go to China next year, an organizer said.”
Walker Art Center Balances Budget By Tapping Endowment
“Walker Art Center announced Monday that it had balanced its budget for the 2012 fiscal year that ended June 30 by tapping a bit more money from its endowment than it did the previous year.”
Museums Without Objects – Rethinking The Whole Idea Of “Colonial” Museums
“To actively ignore existing objects and collections ends in a disregard of the complex systems in which they produce meaning. Yet despite fancy and politically driven exhibitions, ethnographic museums still seem to be haunted by the collections and the coloniality that they represent, even if this is not immediately apparent in the exhibition venues.”
LA Agrees To Finish Never-Opened Children’s Museum (As A Science Center)
“The never-opened Children’s Museum near Hansen Dam in Lake View Terrace has stood vacant since being completed in 2007. The Los Angeles City Council has cleared the way for the Discovery Science Center of Santa Ana to operate it.”
Recently Restored Munch Mural In Danger Again
“A monumental frieze made between 1909 and 1916 by Edvard Munch for the Aula (assembly hall) of the University of Oslo was unveiled to great acclaim in 2011 after a lengthy [restoration] project … However, only 20 months after the project was completed, a Norwegian conservator has warned that harmful dust and debris from the restoration of the building’s exterior may harm the recently treated frieze.”