Dead websites drift in cyberspace like so much internet debris. A lost culture, a navigational hazard. LA Weekly
Tag: 11.09.99
OLIPHANT ON GIULIANI
Cartoonist imagines how great artists would have portrayed New York mayor in their work. Artnet.com
DIGITAL DEMOCRACY
Hollywood is going digital at breakneck speed. What the revolution means to you. LA Weekly
“FIGHT CLUB” opens in Britain –
– but not until after censors cut two scenes. BBC
FALLING MARBLE
Last week a big section of marble fell from the ceiling of the Medici Chapel in Florence. The chapel’s stone has eroded and the structure has now been closed. The Italian press calls it a disaster. ARTnewspaper.com
A MONET FOR $22.5 MILLION
Latest round of art auctions begins in New York. New York Times
ANOTHER NAZI ART CLAIM
Two sisters in North Carolina make claim on a 16th Century Madonna. CBC
NEW JEWISH MUSEUM opens in Berlin –
– ten years after the wall comes down. It’s “one of the city’s most striking new structures.” A talk with the architect Daniel Libeskind. CBC
THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB
“Preponderantly representational, and hung more to practical than to museum standards,” but it offers more artists the opportunity to show, and the public a wider range of work to see and buy, than any other exhibiting venue in Britain. Financial Times
IN HIS IMAGINATION, Paul Mellon –
– son of the founder of the National Gallery in DC – hung out with painters. In real life he collected paintings. Now a “modest show” of some of his collection in the museum’s East Wing, which he commissioned. Washington Post