“Who knew ancient pictograms used by a Chilean tribe of hunters and gatherers would dovetail aesthetically with bar code graphics that store information for drivers licenses, plane tickets and hospital bracelets? Artist Guillermo Bert, that’s who.”
Category: visual
Wang Shu – Architecture That Can Only Be Built In China
“Knowing what Chinese builders can do, he is able to produce buildings that can only be built in China, and he makes his workers an integral part of the process.”
The Vatican’s A Real Country – The Venice Biennale Says So
“The Vatican is finally due to have its own pavilion at the next Venice Biennale (1 June-24 November 2013), after speculation and delays since the idea was first mooted in 2009.”
Discovering A ‘New’ George Inness Painting In Dallas
“An unsigned painting that has been in the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection for more than eight decades and was long-believed to have been composed by another artist was likely created by George Inness, one of America’s greatest landscape painters, a curator said.”
After Complaints, History Museum Kills President’s Three-Year Contract
“The Missouri History Museum has shaved two years off the contract of its embattled president, Robert Archibald, and will pay out a $580,000 chunk of his retirement pay through private donations.”
What’s Better Than A Loan Of Great Art?
Why, an exchange. Museums share a lot more art in exchanges, and make it available to a public that would otherwise never see those pieces.
Why Preserve Buildings We Don’t Care About?
“In a world of ever-diminishing resources, it seems unconscionably profligate not to allow future generations to decide for themselves which architectural works of the past they wish to enrich their own times. The choice should be theirs, not ours.”
Why Sculpture Lags In The Digital World
“Because of its material nature, sculpture has a hard time finding a place in the material world. The digitization of culture has made this more evident, but it’s long been the case.”
A Picasso Palimpsest
“For years conservators and art historians have known that hidden beneath the surface of Woman Ironing, long considered an example of his Blue Period, is the upside-down ghost of another painting – a three-quarter-length portrait of a man with a mustache that was first seen in images taken with an infrared camera in 1989.” Newer technology and conservation techniques have revealed far more about the painting than anyone expected.
It Worked, Damn It: Houston Picasso Vandal Lands Solo Gallery Show, Thanks To All The Attention
“A Houston, Texas, art gallery has raised the ire of the local art community by staging a show of works by a 22-year-old who’s been on the lam since being charged with spray-painting a Pablo Picasso painting. Despite the uproar, Cueto James Art Gallery owner James Perez expects a full house for Friday’s opening of 12 works by Uriel Landeros.”