Category: visual

A few samples: Jung on Picasso: “paradoxical, unfeeling, and grotesque unconcern for the beholder.” Breton on Kahlo: “[her art] is a ribbon around a bomb.” The Spectator on Lucian Freud: “the human form defeats him because he does not observe it as he does dead birds.”

The work by Rodin’s student, assistant and lover Camille Claudel was taken in 1999 and is worth about 1 million euros.

Is Cornwall played out for artists? The Penzance Gathering thinks not.

“The recent discovery that a version of the menorah in a bas-relief on the first-century Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum was originally painted a rich yellow should not come as much of a surprise. But given that the image faded to the color of its underlying stone long ago — like so much else in and around the Forum — precise knowledge of its once-bright pigmentation comes as an exciting revelation to historians and archaeologists.”

A new website digitizes century-old aerial photos of Scotland (and the rest of Britain as well), and hopes to crowd-source responses as it digitizes thousands more photos in the next year or two.

“The natural territory of the street artist Shepard Fairey would seem to be as all-American as it gets. Emerging from the country’s skateboarding scene, he achieved global prominence with his much copied, much parodied Hope poster displaying a stylised Barack Obama in shades of blue and red.” Which is why he was in north London making a mural, of course.

“The man who stole a drawing by the Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí on Tuesday wore only the most basic of disguises: that of an everyday gallery visitor, walking past the Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst works on display. And he brought only the most basic of tools for his heist: a black shopping bag.”

“Daniel Finley, the president and chief executive of the Autry National Museum, has abruptly stepped down from the institution after just two years on the job. The Autry said Thursday that it had named W. Richard West Jr. as its new president and CEO.”

“Their works show the variety of ways in which, on my trail through this year’s degree shows, I found the artists of tomorrow taking on the potential of good old pencils and paints.”

“The sketch came to light after the owner found it in a wardrobe and contacted Christie’s. Even from initial photographs, their experts were sure it was by the 17th-century Dutch master.”