Tan Tan Bo Puking — a.k.a. Gero Tan, Murakami, 2002 — Courtesy: Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
On a swing through L.A. two weeks ago I caught up with “© Murakami”, the retrospective at the Geffen Contemporary outpost of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. It was more interesting than I would have predicted. There’s a lot to say …
I had been thinking today of providing a link to my review of the big outdoor Henry Moore show at Kew botanic gardens, which I caught up with last November on a trip to London. It appears in the new issue of Time‘s European edition. But if you go to the story on line you don’t get all the pictures, so I’m just going to reproduce it …
A French court has blocked the natural history museum of the city of Rouen from returning a mummified, tattooed Maori head to New Zealand, a transfer that was opposed by the French culture minstry on the grounds that the head was part of France’s cultural heritage. The head had been donated to the Rouen museum by a French collector in …
Crystal Island Proposal, Moscow — Image: Foster + Partners
It seems that the old Russian-American space race has taken a new form. While I was off on Christmas break the office of Lord Norman Foster unveiled the design for a new mixed use mega-structure to be built in Moscow that will be the largest — not tallest, largest — …
I’ve been meaning for a while to add two of my favorite art/architecture sites to my blogroll. Time.com’s crack squad of techies will put the links up on my roll on Wednesday. Meanwhile, I’ll post them here.
C-monster.net is a very comprehensive and frequently hilarious art news aggregator. It has led me to waste many precious hours …
I started this blog on Jan. 5 of this year, so I’m closing in on the first anniversary. I won’t bore you with a rundown of the various Lessons I’ve Learned. (For instance, did you know there’s just one “l” in pavilion? I finally mastered that one at the Venice Biennale.) But in the end-of-the-year spirit, here’s one last list. I’ve …
Okay, I’m back from my holiday vacation break, and practically the first thing I learn is that Zahi Hawass, the irrepressible head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has announced that Egypt’s parliament will shortly consider a law that would put his nation’s museum pieces and monuments, including the pyramids, under copyright …
To keep you moderately entertained today, here’s a link to a Time.com podcast of an oddball intellectual exercise carried out last week by Time‘s arts section staff — the critics who write about movies, television, books, pop music and, ahem, art and architecture, as well as our distinguished arts section editor — all of us disputing …
Dance (II), Matisse, 1910 — Image: The Hermitage Museum
The Russians have abruptly cancelled “From Russia: French and Russian Art Masterpieces of 1870-1925”, a lavish loan show that was supposed to move next month from Dusseldorf to the Royal Academy of Art in London. The reason they give is that the British have not guaranteed …
As identified by me in this week’s list-mad issue of Time. Actually it’s just five — and one of them is a sculpture park — plus five hopefuls for next year.
Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City — Photo: Nelson-Atkins Museum
Why only five? Even though Steven Holl’s Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum may be …
Replicas of the terra cotta warriors at the Hamburg Museum of Anthropology — Photo: Kay Nietfeld/EPA
I’ve been mulling over the power of “authenticity” again lately, this time in connection with two developments last week. One was the decision by the Hamburg Museum of Anthropology to shut down an exhibition of what were supposed to …
The Echo (study for Baignade), Seurat, 1883 — Yale University Art Gallery
Having posted yesterday about the pending retirement of John Elderfield at the Museum of Modern Art, I’ll stay on a MoMA topic today, which is the really superb show, “Georges Seurat: The Drawings”, organized by MoMA associate curator of drawings Jodi Hauptman. …
Elderfield — Photo: University of Leeds
The Museum of Modern Art just informed its staff that John Elderfield, MoMA’s chief curator of painting and sculpture, will be stepping down in July of next year. (MoMA curators face a mandatory retirement age of 65.) Kim Mitchell in the museum’s press office tells me that no successor for …
