Shibboleth, Doris Salcedo, 2007 — Photo: Tate
I can’t believe that people are still managing to trip over that long crack that is Doris Salcedo’s temporary art installation in the floor of the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London. But the completely ridiculous idea that Salcedo’s piece might actually be dangerous got me thinking …
It’s end of the year list making time, and here at Time.com we’ve been making our’s. Top ten movies, top ten books and so on. Here’s a link to my completely subjective inventory of the top ten shows in U.S. museums this year. The only rule — an exhibition had to have its first American venue in 2007. Oh, and one other. I had to …
Double Bison, Lascaux Caves, c. 17,000 B.C. — Photos: French Ministry of Culture
Last year the European edition of Time ran an important cover story by my colleague James Graff alerting the world to the seriousness of the persistent fungus threatening the prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France. Over the weekend the New York …
A few weeks ago I posted about the beautifully conceived and executed federal office building that Thom Mayne’s firm Morphosis has produced in San Francisco. Today a new podcast was put on the web in connection with e2, a series set to air on various public TV stations about green design. The second episode, called “Greening the …
Greek pottery from the Walsh Collection — Photo: Chris Taggart/Fordham University
Fordham University opened a new museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities today on its Bronx, N.Y. campus. All of the work comes from the collection of William D. Walsh, a wealthy alum and longtime Fordham benefactor. But as the New York Times …
Lioness Demon, c. 2900 BC — Photo: Sotheby’s
I don’t generally dwell on the ups and downs of the art market, but the Wednesday night antiquities auction at Sotheby’s in New York has produced one pretty stunning result. A carved limestone lioness figure dating from between 3000 and 2800 BC was sold to a so far unnamed British bidder …
“Lagniappe House”, Concordia — Image: Concordia
You may have seen news stories earlier this week about “Make It Right”, the project that Brad Pitt is leading to promote the reconstruction of the Lower Ninth Ward, the New Orleans neighborhood that was demolished two years ago by Katrina. In the aftermath of the storm I went down to …
State Britain, Mark Wallinger, 2006 — Photo © Tate 2006
The people at Tate Britain who bestow the Turner Prize, the U.K.’s annual art award, have given it this week to the artist who produced one of the most highly publicized installation works of the year. From January through August Mark Wallinger filled the Tate’s Duveen Gallery …
Preserve Educational Choice, the group fighting to prevent Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va. from auctioning off paintings from its Maier Museum announced today that it has posted the first half of a one million dollar bond. That was the amount required of them by the Lynchburg Circuit Court while they press their lawsuit to block the …
If I’m a little late posting today it’s because I got lost surfing around art related sites this morning. I started out looking at this piece on the New York Times website about high resolution digital photos of paintings that are available on line. That article led me to museumlink.com, an aggregator that links you to any museum …
The Miami Art Museum unveiled the interim design for its new home today, a “work in progress” model by Herzog & de Meuron that MAM Director Terry Riley says can be expected to evolve over the next year or so in part on the basis of public comment.
Riley has said that he’d like the final design to provide for a few “anchor” galleries …
New Museum of Contemporary Art, Sejima+Nishizawa/SANAA — Photo: Dean Kaufman
I just got back from previewing the new home of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan, an eight story off kilter stack by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Japanese architects who call their firm SANAA. The museum is located on the Bowery, the …
Let’s conclude that conversation with the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
LACAYO: As you know, a number of nations have cultural property laws that effectively lay claim to anything found in the ground on their territory, or that require export permits for anything over, say, 100 years old. China has a request …
