art / Visual Arts
Parsing The Politics Of The White House's New Art"Working with curators at the White House and at the local museums that made loans, the First Couple selected some works whose politics are explicit, and mild. They seem to redress past imbalances in the nation's sense of its own art."...
Arts Journal Wednesday, October 07, 2009Barnes, Gardner Struggle To Honor Founders' Wishes"Both the Gardner and the Barnes are domestic in scale and appealing relics: the antithesis of today's giant museums with endless white galleries. ... We need museums that don't toe the art-world party line, but idiosyncrasy can go too far."...
Arts Journal Wednesday, October 07, 2009In Dallas, Contemporary Forms Trapped In A Time WarpArchitecture isn't the reason that Dallas' new performing arts center "feels stuck in something of a time warp." At fault is the arts district's "organizing principle -- the idea that grouping together institutions for the arts, and recruiting an all-star team of leading architects to design them, remains a viable means of coaxing underdeveloped urban neighborhoods to life."...
Arts Journal Wednesday, October 07, 2009With Murals, Boston Combats Graffiti"From
paintings of colorful cultural scenes in Jamaica Plain to a mural of open books along the Neponset River Greenway, public art in Greater Boston has transformed walls that were once targets for taggers and graffiti
artists."...
Arts Journal Wednesday, October 07, 2009Sheriff: $80 Million Art 'Theft' Appears To Be A Scam"[T]he Monterey County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that the Sept. 25 heist appears to be ... a scam by one or both of the alleged victims, an aspiring lawyer who once sold puppies and a retired Harvard Medical School professor." The sheriff's office said that the alleged victims "had not provided documentation that the
paintings existed."...
Arts Journal Wednesday, October 07, 2009In Convoluted Design, Barnes Architects Strain For Serenity"For any architect taking on the challenge of the new [Barnes Foundation] space, the tangle of ethical and design questions might seem overwhelming. ... The answers found in the drawings of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, the New York architects who took the commission, are not reassuring."...
Arts Journal Wednesday, October 07, 2009Egypt Snubs The Louvre Over 'Stolen' ArtifactsEgypt's antiquities department severs ties with France's Louvre museum in one of the country's most aggressive attempts yet to reclaim relics from some of the world's leading collections. The ruling means that no archaeological expeditions connected to France's premier museum will be allowed to work in Egypt.
NPR Wednesday, October 07, 2009Is The Barnes' Move Worth It?"The architectural design [of the Barnes Foundation's new home] can't be evaluated in the usual terms because it is so much more than the latest contender for the title of the world's most glamorous art palace. The architecture also must succeed as an exoneration of the foundation's alleged crimes against the memory of its founder, the mercurial, vengeful Albert C. Barnes."...
Arts Journal Wednesday, October 07, 2009National Parks And The Power Of A PhotoIan Shive is a conservation photographer with a new book documenting
america's national parks, from sea to shining sea.
NPR Wednesday, October 07, 2009Fashion Photographer Irving Penn Dies At 92Penn began his career in the 1940s as a fashion photographer for Vogue, and he continued to contribute to the magazine for decades thereafter. His photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world.
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