Category: visual

“As the financial crisis has transformed parts of the city for the worse – once-affluent areas now beset by crime and prostitution – it has also inspired a flourishing community of graffiti artists, brightening up the capital with their acerbic and colourful creations.”

“The Dallas Museum of Art continued its newsmaking ways Monday: It is returning a rare piece of Roman art believed to have been looted from Turkey, while at the same time collaborating with Turkey in a new international exchange program.”

“The arrival of ‘Canyon’ at MoMA is the culmination of a five-year absurdist farce–one tinged more by Kafka than Feydeau–that involved the IRS, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the heirs of art dealer Ileana Sonnabend. It might have been laughable, except that the stakes were so high.”

So far, first reactions in the French press have been mixed. Le Figaro called the museum “discreet”. The Journal du Dimanche said that, without its contents, it would look like “two, immense, cold hangars”.

“There is really no reason why you should find your voice in your early twenties. It’s a 20th-century assumption that creativity comes before the craft rather than the other way round. Nobody in previous centuries would have signed up to that.”

“The painting – on a small wooden panel measuring 115x86cm (45x34in) – was last seen in public 73 years ago on the eve of World War II, when it was shown at a Leonardo exhibition in Milan. Then it disappeared.”

“Archaeologists in England and Wales are struggling to cope with the number of artefacts discovered by members of the public. Nearly 100,000 finds were made last year and reported to authorities.”

“The murals that were meant to ruin the appetite of wealthy patrons inspired chef/stylist Caitlin Levin and photographer Henry Hargreaves to interpret Rothko’s collection using rice.”

“The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti is most often remembered for his famously thin, elongated sculptures of the human form. Giacometti was a similarly brilliant and original draughtsman who maintained that drawing was the central skill of an artist.”

“The Art Museum Council of LACMA is a very diverse, hands-on group. Our AMC Board of Directors voted to withdraw from LACMA rather than discriminate against any of our members who would be unable to pay the exorbitant increase to stay in our council. We do not believe in leaving anyone out of our group.”