Category: visual

“The fractured design of the logo certainly invites discord. It doesn’t piece together, like a puzzle that doesn’t fit, and that drives brains crazy. A light pointed at the logo could never cast the shadow you see behind it. Yes, it’s made to be young, and graffiti-inspired. But love it or hate it, the real genius is in how the logo screws with your sense of taste and your perception of what it should and shouldn’t look like.”

“A crucial millage for the Detroit Institute of Arts passed easily in Wayne and Oakland counties – but was approved by the slimmest of margins in Macomb County as the final votes were tallied. … The property tax millage promises as much as $23 million for the DIA for 10 years.”

“[L]awyers agree that as art prices rise, so does the temptation to turn to the courts to settle disputes over authenticity. One result is that judges and juries with no background in art can frequently be asked to arbitrate among experts who have devoted their lives to parsing a brush stroke.”

“Following sharp criticism from many corners of the art world, the board of trustees at the Museum of Contemporary Art has changed course and decided to fill the chief curator position left open by Paul Schimmel’s forced resignation in June.”

Last week Facebook removed an image of Gerhard Richter’s “Ema,” a misted view of a nude woman, on the page of the Pompidou Center…

“For years it sat on a farmhouse wall gathering dust. And when Fiona McLaren redecorated, she didn’t even take the time to cover the apparently worthless painting in a protective sheet, so it got flicked in specks of paint. However, in an astounding twist it has emerged that the picture is likely to have been the work of master artist Leonardo da Vinci and worth over £100million.”

“On one side, Donald ‘Babe’ Hemlock’s Ironworker Cradleboard (2011) looks like the cozy abode devised by American Indians to swaddle an infant … Painted on the cradle’s wood support is a Mohawk ironworker, balancing on one foot atop a construction girder that is vertiginously suspended over Times Square.”

“It seemed that down every other alley, in every little hallway and behind every store there was some quality street art to be found.”

“Software companies and app makers tap into the creative- industry energy of cities, where the talent they seek increasingly wants to live.”

“‘What we’re doing here now, it’s on the most serious level,’ says Deitch, nattily attired in a pale yellow suit and his signature round-frame glasses. ‘It’s as good as any museum in the country.'”