I caught an early look at The Rape of Europa. It’s a documentary of roughly two hours drawn heavily from the 1994 book of that name by Lynn Nicholas that won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Nicholas told the story of the Nazi plunder of European artworks and architecture during World War II. The [...]

A few weeks ago I mentioned the now-in-progress competition to design what will be the tallest building in San Francisco — or for that matter anywhere on the West Coast — a new tower alongside a new bus and railway terminal being built by the Bay Area’s Transbay Joint Powers Authority. The three contenders are designs [...]

As in — I wonder how long it will be before Alice Walton has her way with the Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University? Actually, while we’ve been talking about 9/11 this week, there’s been movement on two Walton-related artworld dramas. One of them involves Walton and Fisk. Earlier this week a Tennessee judge disallowed a [...]