Category: visual

With the new “Set in Stone” study to draw from, museums can ask the right questions about expansion (and so can funders, and journalists, for that matter).

Artists stood on the sidewalk with their possessions and artwork as Tacheles, “the grungy Berlin art center housed in a derelict former department store that became a trashy symbol of the capital’s post-unification freedom, was cleared on Tuesday.”

“Dan Westergren, Traveler‘s senior picture editor, has been judging the contest for many years. I asked him how they detect manipulated or otherwise inadmissible submissions among the massive volume of entries.”

“By making manifest the invisible forces that act upon the material world, they do for physics what the mandala does for Hindu theogony, or Kabbalistic diagrams of the sefirot try to do for the Ineffable.”

“After a summer of discontent, the board of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art has scheduled a special meeting Tuesday, aiming to unite trustees whose willingness to donate is vital to reversing recent budget cuts.”

In a self-replicating bizarro world moment, you can get Warhol labels on your actual Campbell’s tomato soup cans for 75 cents down at your local Target.

“Museums in London suffered dramatic falls in visitor numbers in the run-up to the Olympic Games, with some as much as 40% down on last year.”

“The Louvre’s astonishing new wing for the department of Islamic art undulates like molten gold, so liquid-smooth in contrast to the surrounding neoclassical architecture framing it that at a glance from afar it almost looks like a digitalized, fake rendering of what visitors can hope to see in the distant future.”

“The Modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t a hoarder. But he did save just about everything – whether a doodle on a Plaza Hotel cocktail napkin of an imagined city on Ellis Island … or a model of Broadacre City, his utopian metropolis.” This collection, locked in storage since Wright’s death, “is moving permanently to New York in an unusual joint partnership between the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library.”