Category: visual

“Cincinnati Art Museum is planning an unprecedented art project that involves shooting a bullet from a rifle mounted on a stand through the middle of the Schmidlapp Gallery and into a block of bronze placed in the center of the museum’s Great Hall.”

“It has been granted a privileged position in the Louvre’s central courtyard alongside I M Pei’s glass pyramid, and will house the largest collection of Islamic art in Europe – a rotating selection from the Louvre’s 18,000 strong Islamic archive. It’s all very exciting, but what, exactly, are the implication of this grand new home for the cream of the Islamic cultural crop?”

“Ounce for ounce, bloke for bloke, Britain produces better designers and design impresarios than anywhere else.”

The Zurich-based Mona Lisa Foundation said before the unveiling that it would present “the stunning portrait of Lisa del Giocondo,” along with results from 35 years of research and scientific tests indicating that “it was indeed executed by Leonardo approximately a decade earlier than its famous sister in the Louvre.”

“Sadly, the Barclays Center and Atlantic Yards has become an object lesson in how form follows finance.”

“The Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation has donated 405 Picasso prints worth $20 million to the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan. The new art gallery is being built in the city’s River Landing area and is scheduled to open in 2015.”

The number of visitors has nearly doubled, to nearly 3 million annually from around 1.5 million, in the eight years since MoMA reopened after its expansion and renovation in 2004. “Our galleries are pretty close to being maxed out.”

“Louisville has good bones, good architects and some good ideas. But for three decades the city has wrestled with the interstate and bridge problem. Delays and traffic accidents have mounted.”

“Instead of relying on one developer to finance the $240 million project, a group known as Fidi Global has pushed a different model for the skyscraper: to have Colombians fund the building themselves. After an extensive advertising campaign on billboards, radio, and TV, more than 3,000 people (see the video above) have invested in a share in the building and raised over $145 million so far.”

“In order to maintain the health of the profession, a fundamental change in how young interns are integrated into the design environment, and in how they apply their education, needs to occur.”