As auction sales have spiked in recent years, a lot of living artists have been on the sidelines feeling left out. The sales have made millions for collectors and the auction houses, but the artists don’t share in the profits. (Though strong performance for their …
I’ve posted a few times about the many teardown threats against buildings by Paul Rudolph, including his 1958 Riverview High School in Sarasota, Fla. For a while it looked as though the school might be saved. But today The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports …
Part of the ongoing disaster of the flooding in the Midwest — floodwaters invaded the arts campus of the University of Iowa. The Iowa River crested on Sunday, but not before reaching the Museum of Art and the relatively new Steven Holl-designed School of Art and Art History, seen here before the flood.
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I caught a preview screening last week of Chris and Don: A Love Story, a documentary about the 34-year relationship between the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the L.A.-born artist Don Bachardy, which has now moved into a few theaters. Isherwood was 48 in 1954 and already …
After work last Friday I stopped by the Van Alen Institute, an organization concerned with architecture and city planing, to watch Rem Koolhaas interviewed on a small stage by Hans Ulrich Obrist, who’s been doing a series of public Q&As with architects and artists. The subject, …
Last week I toured through the Henry Moore outdoor sculpture show at the New York Botanical Garden. Somebody from Time.com brought along a video camera. There was nothing I could do to stop them.
It was in February that Tom Krens stepped down as director of the Guggenheim Foundation. Whoever is named to replace him will be expected to stabilize the expanding Guggen-universe. But meanwhile the Guggenheim keeps going on sheer momentum. Yesterday the …
I swung through North Adams, Mass. yesterday to visit MASS MoCA and take a look at progress on their immense installation of 100 Sol LeWitt wall drawings that will open on November 16 and remain in place for a minimum of 25 years. In effect, what they’re producing there will be a one-man LeWitt museum, with the advantage that it’s part …
Again. Back Wednesday.
I caught an early look at The Cool School, a documentary about the West Coast art scene in the 1950s and ’60s. Directed by Morgan Neville, co-written by him and Kristine McKenna, it premieres Tuesday at 10 P.M. on PBS.
It’s built around the focal point of L.A. art in those days, the Ferus Gallery, Ur-institution of the West Coast art …
The man who made “The Bean” is in Boston. (Ok, it’s actually called Cloud Gate.) In any event, I wrote about him in the new issue of Time.
Two pieces of news out of Pittsburgh today. One is that Richard Armstrong, director of the Carnegie Museum of Art, has announced that he’s stepping down after 16 years at the museum and 12 as director. That’s the third American museum to lose its leadership this week, following the announced retirement of Mimi Gates in Seattle and the …
If you want to stop the conversation cold around your table at a museum press lunch, try saying something nice about Norman Rockwell. I used that clever gambit at a Metropolitan Museum lunch earlier this week. It produced what it would be fair to call an awkward silence until Philippe de …
