Category: visual

“The Art Newspaper has calculated that art worth as much as $2bn has been brought to the city for sale through fairs, galleries and auction houses. This number could suggest that the confidence shown in the art market in the mid-2000s is returning at speed. The union teamsters and Occupy protesters seem to think so–but is it really the case?”

To get to number 10 you have to go back to 2008. Recession? What recession?

“A long-running lawsuit to force the Norton Simon Museum to surrender one of its prized artworks, 480-year-old paired paintings of Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder that were looted during the Holocaust, has reached what could be its last legal round: plaintiff Marei Von Saher’s recent appeal to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.”

“The architecture of the new stations, unfortunately, is not just weak but somehow aggressively banal. If that strikes you as a contradiction in terms, you’re right.”

“The Helsinki city board, a vetting committee of 15 municipal politicians selected to consider proposals for the Helsinki city council, voted eight to seven against putting the Guggenheim project forward for the council’s consideration.”

“At the same time it’s hard not to be disheartened that so much art coming out of China falls short of what it might be. A colonized land and an oppressed people suddenly becoming a world power could not offer richer opportunities for photographers able to capture the ordinary, slow changes as well as the enormous ones.”

“A 28-year-old man and 15-year-old boy were arrested earlier at addresses in east London by officers from Cambridgeshire and the Metropolitan Police.”

The glass skin of the condo tower going up near the museum “now reflects so much light that it is threatening artworks in the galleries, burning the plants in the center’s garden and blinding visitors with its glare. No one quite knows what to do. The condo developer and museum officials are at loggerheads. Fingers are being pointed. [Nasher architect Renzo] Piano is furious. The developer’s architect is aggrieved. The mayor is involved.”

Last Friday, the Museum of Contemporary Art hosted “a tour of museum works that was itself billed as an artwork and had this as its title: ‘Preceded by a tour of the show by artist Stuart Ringholt, 6-8pm (the artist will be naked. Those who wish to join the tour must also be naked. Adults only)’.”

“Artists Spartacus Chetwynd, Elizabeth Price, Luke Fowler and Paul Noble will compete for this year’s £25,000 prize, set to return to London for its 28th year”