Category: visual

“Authorities arrested three men after one of the suspects attempted to sell a valuable piece of the stolen haul to an undercover police officer — a Bronze Age ring, more than 3,000 years old.”

“The English and French artistic duo Lucy and Jorge Orta have been chosen to kick off a major contemporary art commission in London. The artists are creating a gigantic installation for St Pancras International train station, which will … replace the Olympic Rings that were suspended from the ceiling in front of the station clock in the run-up to the London 2012 games.”

“The 50-year-old building in Oslo that houses thousands of his works is a bit of a dive, looking more like a postwar municipal building than an art gallery.” Plans to renovate the place have dragged on for several years without ever being agreed on or funded.

“Ever since May, the race has been on to retrieve thousands of delicate artworks from damaged buildings before the rains and frosts of winter destroy them forever.”

“The L.A. City Council last December passed a new ordinance that effectively banned anyone but local artists from engaging in commercial activity on the boardwalk’s beach-facing side. Ordinance violators are subject to fines and repeat offenders can end up in jail. That has left it to officers like Sgt. Gonzalez to routinely weigh in on a debate more suited to the Museum of Modern Art or the Guggenheim: What constitutes art?”

“Sotheby’s posted a pre-tax loss of $46.4m (a net loss of $32.6m), representing a $57.7m, or 58%, fall in net profits for the first nine months of the year. The company says that the third quarter is nearly always a loss-making period, historically representing between 7% and 10% of its annual sales.”

“In Canada it seems you have be one very dead white guy buried, preferably, under a huge mound of snow or crimson maple leaves to receive that sort of approbation.”

Way, way underground. (Yes, this is another creepy/thrilling story about the catacombs. It all sounds faintly thrilling, and faintly grotesque, and just in time for the release of Les Mis.)

Graffiti artist KAWS’ work has gone from the street to floating far above the street in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. But how, exactly, did that happen?

“A 150-metre-high, flat-topped pyramid would be taller than St Paul’s Cathedral or St Peter’s Basilica and would overshadow the Great Pyramid of Giza – creating Abu Dhabi’s answer to Egypt’s pyramids or Mecca’s Kaaba.”