Category: visual

At Rockaway Beach in Queens, artists picked by a public arts group build sand-castle art – “to be stomped or filled in by nightfall.”

John Powers: “My job was simple: Paint by numbers. The most intricate sections required miniature brushes, sizes 0 and 00, their bristles no longer than an eyelash. The goal was to hand-fashion a flat, seamless surface that appeared to have been manufactured by machine, which meant there could be no visible brush strokes, no blending, no mistakes.”

Seventy-five years after Picasso painted one of his most famous pieces in a white heat after the bombing of Guernica, and after years of Basque separatist violence, the town’s reveling in peace – and being able to tell the truth.

“The macho was the antidote to the fear. It is inherently scary to be exposed to your fellow human being and Hughes, like [Clement] Greenberg before him, exposed himself again and again. … The macho was a tool, a weapon in his arsenal.”

Because the cataloguer misunderstood a French word, the glass work stayed in storage for decades. Now the Evansville Museum hopes to cash in on its find.

The twin Brazilian street artists Os Gêmeos painted The Giant of Boston, a 70-by-70-foot mural showing a boy wearing brightly patterned pajamas and a red shirt wrapped around his head and face. Soon, on the Facebook page of the local Fox TV affiliate, some commenters described the image as depicting a “terrorist”, “towel head”, and “Mooselim protected by Obama!”

“On the west side of the city center, once abandoned to warehouses and cheap housing, the renowned Löwenbräukunst” – yes, as in the beer – “art complex will reopen after two years of intensive redevelopment. Since 1996, … the complex has been the engine behind Zurich’s growing status as a world center for contemporary art.”

“Since 9/11, there’s been an incredible number of incidents where photographers are being interfered with and arrested for doing nothing other than taking pictures or recording video in public places.”

“Charles Venable, the current director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., was introduced Wednesday as the Melvin & Bren Simon director and CEO of the IMA.”

“Nearly 8,000 visitors poured into the museum through Sunday, about 5,000 of whom were admitted free as residents of the tri-county area. About 2,000 people paid general admission fees, and 900 others were admitted free as members.”