It took a decade, but all 201,000 works of art owned publicly in the UK have now been photographed. Now they’ll all be put online.
Category: visual
Frank Gehry To Take On Miami’s Beloved Bacardi Complex
“Many architects would be wary of touching a beloved Miami landmark like the multicolored Bacardi complex on Biscayne Boulevard. But the architect Frank Gehry is a fan of the organization that just purchased it: the National YoungArts Foundation, a nonprofit that helps aspiring high school artists.”
Major New Art Gallery For Whistler, BC
“Wanting to see a home for his extraordinary collection” – which includes works by the likes of Andy Warhol and Diego Rivera as well as such top British Columbia artists as Emily Carr and Jeff Wall – “built in his lifetime, … Michael Audain has with lightning speed entered into negotiations to build an art museum in Whistler, B.C.”
Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright House In Phoenix Faces Demolition
“It’s hard to say which is more startling. That a developer in Phoenix could threaten – by Thursday, no less – to knock down a 1952 house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Or that the house has until now slipped under the radar, escaping the attention of most architectural historians, even though it is one of Wright’s great works, a spiral home for his son David.”
Mandatory Ethics Code For Dealers In Australian Indigenous Art
“Aboriginal art dealers and galleries are set to be bound by legally enforceable standards of behaviour designed to finally eliminate unethical conduct from the industry.”
Renzo Piano’s Latest Trophy Building Opens In Oslo
“Last weekend Norway’s most-famous private museum, the Astrup Fearnley in Oslo, moved into a brand new building designed by Renzo Piano. The modern art museum is located in what promises to become the city’s hippest neighborhood, Tjuvholmen, a former shipyard and mechanical industry area.”
Architecture’s Next Big Thing: Curving Glass
Lisa Rochon: “Billowing clouds of glass are the next holy grail in architecture. Keep your eyes lifted and alert: The race is on to achieve visually ephemeral buildings that look as if they might cleanse your mind while they float away.”
UK Prohibits Curved And Glass Walls In New School Construction
“The templates tell architects new schools should have ‘no curves or ‘faceted’ curves’, corners should be square, ceilings should be left bare and buildings should be clad in nothing more expensive than render or metal panels above head height. As much repetition as possible should be used to keep costs down.”
Revisiting Eric Staller’s Light Graffiti
In the 1970s and ’80s, the American photographer pioneered the use of fireworks and long exposure times to create patterns of light seared onto twilit cityscapes.
Art From The Euro Crisis
First there was David Cerny’s notorious satirical map of the EU (Greece in flames, Bulgaria as a squat toilet, France closed for a strike, Britain not there at all). Now more artists are working in the same vein – for instance, Frank Buckley, who has completely covered an abandoned building in Dublin with shredded euro notes.