Category: visual

“Mr. Lombardi began to court struggling artists who did not have gallery representation and could no longer afford South Beach. As they moved into the neighborhood, he started Roving Fridays, a stroll for cutting-edge art lovers who wanted to see the new scene for themselves.”

Y”oung architects found an opportunity to express spirituality in a modern voice–or, as Le Corbusier said of Ronchamp, ‘to create a place of silence, of prayer, of peace, and of eternal joy.’ Of course, the clergy weren’t always happy with the radical forms that resulted.”

“Hurricane Sandy inundated the basement of Westbeth, which was the first and largest federally subsidized artist’s colony in the country when it opened 42 years ago at the westernmost edge of the West Village.”

“At a time when modernist architecture was characterized by ‘rational’ right angles, Niemeyer took his inspiration from Brazil’s beaches, rivers, ocean waves, and women. (He was always mentioning the women.)”

“The problem is that it’s not a city. It’s that simple. The issue is not whether it’s a good city or a bad city. It’s just not a city. It doesn’t have the ingredients of a city: messy streets, people living above shops, and offices nearby.”

“In an age when we are so flooded with information, authenticity and trust matter even more to people, he added – we must not confuse what audiences really want with what we think they ought to want.”

“Just as the self-supporting system has become a model for structuring artistic activity within the city, Glasgow can become a model for creative communities elsewhere.”

“The work, titled Head of a Young Apostle, was featured in a Sotheby’s auction in London on Wednesday. The chalk drawing, dating from the early 16th century, is believed to have been an early study for Raphael’s masterpiece Transfiguration, which is located at the The Vatican.”

“In many countries across Europe, public art is ingrained in government policy,” with many regions requiring that a percentage of public construction budget be used for art. But in a time when government spending is being slashed across the continent, “some are beginning to question whether public art is money well spent.”

“The Louvre-Lens looks like a clumsy idea to me, a self-hating move by an institution that should be proud of its palatial magnificence. … It is breaking up a collection that is one of the wonders of the world. For every visitor who makes the trip to Lens, there will be people frantically scouring the Louvre in Paris looking for the vanished Delacroix that is usually one of its highlights.”