Category: visual

“The DDS Crew have been breaking into London tube stations to paint trains for more than 20 years. Transport for London accuses them of causing £10m damage. Recently they have been filming themselves in the act.”

”I compared the two and it’s obvious that it’s a copy,” he said. ”The main problem is the way it is being proliferated to such a substantial amount of people around the world.”

“A German billionaire with deep Tacoma roots is giving his Western American art collection to the Tacoma Art Museum, and the museum will build a new wing to house it, doubling its gallery space. Most of the new 15,000-square-foot wing and all of the 280-piece art collection come courtesy of Erivan Haub and his wife Helga.”

The piece is in Santa Fe and “was never actually open to the public on any regular basis, instead opening only on specific occasions. Hopefully that will change once the refurbishment happens: a Turrell without visitors sitting inside and gazing at the sky seems like the proverbial tree falling in a forest without anyone to hear its sound.”

“The canvas, a counterfeit version of a 1964 work called The bust of Jeune Garcon was accompanied by false authenticity documents bearing the signatures of Paloma, one of the Spanish painter’s daughters, and a renowned French art expert.”

Protestors carried parts of a wind turbine blade into the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and asked that curators include it as part of the permanent collection – to protest what they see as the garish obviousness with which BP (formerly British Petroleum) sponsors the museum.

“A memorial is not a biography in stone. A memorial’s task is not to sum up a life, but to capture the essence of a life in a unified, powerful image.”

“It is true that the Shard is strikingly larger and different in design from many of London’s traditional icons. In their time St Paul’s Cathedral and Tower bridge no doubt also stood out against older buildings. Yet to thrive cities need to be living, breathing institutions rather than fossilised organisms.”

“Two Italian art historians claim to have discovered as many as 100 works, most of them drawings, by a very young Caravaggio in a collection long attributed to a master Milanese artist he studied under while a boy in the late 1500s.”

“Superstar architect Renzo Piano calls the European Union’s new tallest building a ‘vertical city’, but … [the] elongated glass pyramid, built atop a train station in a scruffy neighbourhood near the Thames, will open with 26 floors of vacant office space, and developers have to fill it at a time when rents are at the flattest in at least 50 years.”