Category: visual

“About 22,000 sod staples, inserted just a day before the storm struck, helped the lawn survive the onslaught of wind and water.”

“The memorial’s planners acknowledged the museum was constructed in a 100-year flood plain, which means the land has a 1 percent chance of flooding every year. Naturally (or not), the site has been through two ‘100 year floods’ in the past 14 months.”

It’s art vs. desperate need for funds in a fight over a sculpture Moore sold for a low price “to enrich the lives of people in a socially deprived area of London.”

Google has added new features to the Art Project, including a Hangout function that enables anyone to give virtual art tours.

The Museum of Modern Art is running a session today on how to save flood-damaged art, and it’s also put up resources online for the Chelsea galleries and others where art was assaulted by the hurricane’s flooding.

“The house of the Prophet’s wife has now been turned into a toilet block and the house of one of his companions is now the site of a Hilton hotel…All of these important sites, which in other countries would be UNESCO World Heritage [sites], here they have been obliterated.”

“Artist Danh Vo has been named the winner of the 2012 Hugo Boss Prize, which is administered by the Guggenheim Foundation. Vo, who was born in Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Denmark, will have a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York next year.”

There’s “a generation of Chinese contemporary artists who since the 1980s have reclaimed ancient ink-painting techniques to create what is now known as ink arts. … The genre, also known as brush painting, is not defined by the materials used to make it, … but rather by the type of training and specialization that the artists learn.”

“Gallery owners, when they are able to get to their premises, are still finding them inaccessible, with many metal doors buckled. In the Red Hook district of Brooklyn, home to many artists’ studios, considerable numbers of artworks have been trashed. “

“Should public museums be places where political argument happens? Why is this so rarely the case, especially when compared with politically engaged programming in museums in Europe, Mexico, South America and even parts of the Middle East?”