Category: visual

“He has drawn Godzilla battling Mothra, the lunar landing, the sinking of the Titanic and a horse running at the Preakness. There’s even a rendition of a gun-toting stickup man modeled after Omar, Wallace’s favorite character from the HBO television series ‘The Wire.’ After he finishes each ride, Wallace downloads his route/drawing onto his website, wallygpx.com. It’s a process that he describes as virtual graffiti, because he can express himself freely without defacing publ

An exhibition gets an art historian thinking about artist Sylvia Sleigh’s work – and wondering about her model, Paul Rosano. “Maybe this is the crux of the condition of what Laura Mulvey famously called ‘to-be-looked-at-ness.’ We’re not supposed to wonder about the object of desire, we’re simply only to desire.”

“The situation the run-down [Museum of Contemporary Art] finds itself in — long on enthusiasm but short on funds — is emblematic of the contemporary art scene in Belgrade. It has world-class artists and thought-provoking art, but not much of a market and not many appropriate showcases for the work.”

“I was working for magazines and newspapers, and at a certain point I felt that I was an artist … I felt more like an art photographer. I thought maybe I should take a couple months off to think about a project for myself. The last day of the two months that I gave myself to think about everything, I broke my hip in a bike accident. So then I had a lot of time to think [laughs]. And I think that that moment I realized how vulnerable you could be, that something can just happen.”

“Paul Schimmel’s firing reduces the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s curatorial ranks to three, down from five when Jeffrey Deitch became the museum’s director in mid-2010.”

“The Museum of Fine Arts has been given 34 rare West African pieces from a group of works known as the Benin bronzes, marking a dramatic upgrade in a long-neglected area of the museum’s collection. The 28 bronzes and 6 ivories come from New York collector Robert Owen Lehman.”

Four decades ago Tony Shalfrazi – then an artist, now an art dealer – walked into MoMA and spray-painted on Guernica. A couple of weeks ago, art student Uriel Landeros went to the Menil Collection and stencilled his own “addition” onto Woman in a Red Armchair – and Artinfo subsequently decided to publish a review (very favorable) of Landeros’s portfolio.

“Attendance will total 1.3 million for the 2011-12 fiscal year that ends Saturday, more than double what it was four years ago, and that the budget is about to increase 6.4% to $67.6 million in the new fiscal year beginning Sunday. But consolidating those gains has not come without pain, at least for some museum workers.”

“The sale totaled $207.3 million, against an estimate of $160.1 million to $216.9 million, the highest total of any auction in the category that Christie’s has held in Europe.”

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