I had lunch recently with Michael Conforti, director of the Clark in Williamstown, Mass., which most people know as the Clark Art Institute. (They’re re-branding.) We talked about the Clark’s ongoing expansion, which includes the almost complete Stone …
Earlier this month the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the Rem Koolhaas firm, unveiled plans for Waterfront City, an instant city to be built on an artificial island off the coast of Dubai. The focal point was a 44-story spherical building. At first sight it was a bit …
Okay, that lunch I took part in last week at the Philip Johnson Glass House wasn’t actually served on the grass, but from certain angles it looked that way. The conversation — ten people sitting around a table to talk about the problems of civic planning and architecture in New …
I’m still occupied at the Philip Johnson Glass House symposium. More on that later. But meanwhile my take on the new Whitney Biennial just happens to be in the new issue of Time. And here on Time.com there’s a video download, narrated by yours truly, that looks at a few works in the show.
Today and Friday I’ll be on the road. I’ve been invited to join a symposium that’s part of a new series called the Glass House Conversations. These are two-day events sponsored by the Philip Johnson Glass House n New Canaan, Conn., which is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. …
Decades ago the J. Paul Getty Museum, with its bulging endowment, was expected to bulldoze its way into the art market and buy every good thing that came up for sale. If only. All these years later the Getty’s paintings collection is still a patchwork affair. But on Tuesday the museum announced that it’s purchased what looks like a …
Let’s finish up that conversation with Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Monin, the organizers of this year’s Whitney Biennial.
LACAYO: Okay, what about the “social performance” activities over at the Park Avenue Armory, things like the dance marathon, the sleepover, the tequila bar. When did you begin to think this was an essential …
Men of the Docks, George Bellows, 1912/MAIER MUSEUM
A few months ago, writing about the prolonged battled over whether Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va. could sell some of the work from its Maier Museum, I said that the whole thing had turned into one of those movie serial cliffhangers, with regular new chapters in which one side or …
Admit it, you’ve been longing to read just one more piece about the new Cai Guo-Qiang show. And wouldn’t you know it, I just happen to have one in the new issue of Time.
It’s (almost) happy ending time in the fight between Fisk University and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum over the Alfred Stieglitz Collection. Yesterday a Tennessee judge ruled that Fisk could keep the collection but could not sell …
It’s here, the Whitney Biennial, the show that everybody loves to hate. It opens today at the Whitney Museum in New York. I sat down yesterday with Shamim M. Momin and Henriette Huldisch, the Whitney curators chiefly responsible for this year’s edition. The new Biennial is unusual in that for three weeks part of it will spill over to …
While the threat of oil drilling in the vicinity of Spiral Jetty continues, it turns out that Stonehenge is also under siege. The British daily The Guardian has this about plans to build a giant merchandise warehouse nearby, with a whole lot more truck traffic down the highway nearby. This following …
I got a chance recently to preview five documentaries about photographers that are turning up this week on the Sundance Channel. Tonight’s is Helmut Newton: My Life, about the world’s canniest dirty old man. It combines archival imagery with video interviews with Newton in later life — he died four years ago — …
