“A set of glowing green chandeliers made from uranium is being installed at Nassauischer Kunstverein (NKV) in Wiesbaden, Germany. … [The] work is timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary on 11 March of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in Japan.”
Category: visual
Tate Gallery Buys Eight Million Works By Ai Weiwei
“The Tate has acquired approximately 8m individual sculptures, its largest number of works of art ever, although each is smaller than a little finger nail: 10 tonnes of Ai Weiwei’s famous porcelain sunflower seeds.”
A New Ellsworth Kelly Sculpture For The New Barnes Foundation?
“The Philadelphia Art Commission is expected to vote on Wednesday on plans to erect a 40-foot-high stainless steel sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly at the end of a reflecting pool in the garden of the new Barnes Foundation.”
The London Olympics’ Exciting New Buildings That You Don’t Know About Yet
“While Anish Kapoor’s tower and Zaha Hadid’s Aquatic Centre have received all the coverage in the run up to the Olympics, there are plenty of other stunning structures ready to break from the pack.”
Refurbished National Museum Of Scotland Had A Sensational Year In 2011
“The museum has had a 141% increase in visitor numbers since it reopened last summer following a £47m refurbishment. The Edinburgh museum’s original target of a million visitors a year was passed within four months.”
Convicted Art Forger Says His Fakes Were On Much Bigger Scale
“In one of the most spectacular art forgery cases in German history, fraudster Wolfgang Beltracchi was sentenced to six years in prison last autumn. Set to begin doing time this month, he tells SPIEGEL the scope of his counterfeiting was far greater than previously known, including works by some 50 artists.”
Take Back The Streets – Artists Whitewash Billboard Ad Pollution
“Who are the people raising awareness about visual pollution and how are they going about it? Everywhere around the world, in every city, someone is standing up locally to excessive outdoor media, either in the courtroom or in the streets.”
The Alarm Is Raised Yet Again: Picasso Painting May Leave UK, Unless A Buyer Arises
“Picasso’s painting Child with a Dove – which has been on public display in the UK since the 1970s – is to go on sale, amid fears it may leave the country.”
Sometimes, Revolution Takes You Backward (As French Painters Could Tell You)
“During much of the 18th century in France, female painters defied the usual constraints on their gender and thrived among the kings, queens and nobles soon to lose their heads.” Then came the French Revolution – destroyer of (bourgeois) women’s careers.
Where’s The LACMA Rock? Stuck In Traffic, And Taking Sunday Off
The prodigiously slow progress of the prodigiously huge LACMA boulder continues – and it’s slow enough that dozens of people walk behind it on the closed highways.