Supermarket magnate Michel-Edouard Leclerc “says that he hopes to transform the French public’s perception of contemporary art by opening a new gallery in a former 17th-century convent in Brittany this summer.”
Category: visual
Melbourne’s Top Art Museum Still Won’t Let People Sketch There – And Said People Are Angry
“A groundswell of anger about [the National Gallery of Victoria’s] restrictions on visitors sketching, painting or even taking notes has the gallery scrambling to amend and defend its guidelines. And a group of eminent local artists has joined a campaign to persuade those in charge to throw open its doors freely to those who want to paint before its great works.”
Here’s One Major Critic Who Really Likes The New Barnes Foundation
Roberta Smith: “Against all odds, the museum that opens to the public on Saturday is still very much the old Barnes, only better. … And Barnes’s exuberant vision of art as a relatively egalitarian aggregate of the fine, the decorative and the functional comes across more clearly, justifying its perpetuation with a new force.”
Finding The Politics In Joan Miró’s Art
“Miró’s world of art was so special – with stars and moons, biomorphs and delightful dogs and sly monsters and wonderful color – that it has always been difficult to find much politics there.” It’s a matter of knowing where to look.
A Banksy Goes Down The Drainpipe (Actually, It’s The Reverse)
“A Melbourne builder has inadvertently destroyed a valuable piece of street art by British graffiti artist Banksy, by drilling a hole through it to put in a bathroom pipe.”
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Preserving Outdoor Murals?
“Art preservation is tricky even under ideal circumstances, which generally involve close controls for light, temperature, humidity and other hazards. Eliminate those and you have some idea of the challenge that street-mural preservation faces.”
René Magritte’s Art Deco Sheet Music Covers (Who Knew?)
The Belgian Surrealist “may have carved his place in art history as a master of mind-bending, advertising-influenced imagery at the intersection of aesthetics and philosophy, but he also had a little-known early commercial career.”
The Master Paper-Cutter Of The New York Subways
“In the congested world of subway performers, where dance troupes, conga circles and violin players blur, Ming Liang Lu, 57, is an alluring presence. A self-described ‘master paper portrait cutter,’ he has the ability to trim facial portraits out of frail paper within minutes, compelling some riders to willingly miss their trains.”
Evoking Monet’s Giverny With Real Plants
“Scott Pask made his entrance and spoke his first line: ‘The green needs to be a bit more blue’.” The Tony Award-winning set designer was at work at the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, helping create the new exhibit “Monet’s Garden.” “The task: evoking Giverny, the Normandy estate that was manse and muse to one of Impressionism’s founding fathers.”
Thom Mayne To Design Anchor Of Cornell University’s NYC Tech Center
The Pritzker Prize winner and his firm, Morphosis, have been named architects of the flagship structure of a major research center and high-tech business incubator planned for Roosevelt Island, the quiet strip of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens.