9 of the World’s Weirdest Museums
Artsy - One might think that a museum devoted to hunting and nature housed in an 18th-century aristocratic residence on Paris’s Right Bank would be stuffy and rather ethically contentious. In the case of the Mu...
MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers
MoMA - Interestingly, as the aura and familiarity of MoMA-anointed landmarks ebbs and flows, you may find yourself on your own, responding in less filtered ways to what you see. This should occur more frequentl...
See the 10 Biggest Museum Acquisitions of 2017
Artnet News - This power year in the art world peaked with Christie’s historic showstopper auction, as Leonardo da Vinci‘s Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million to a mysterious buyer, who has since turned out (a...
2017 in culture: The best, the worst, and the surprising
DW - No one can accuse 2017 of being an uneventful year. In the light of global political scandals and humanitarian crises with no end in sight, culture and arts often provided us with much-needed spiritual rel...
Beyond Leonardo: the artists who led the auctions in 2017
The Art Newspaper - After suffering from a dearth of top works in the preceding two years, owing to economic jitters sparked by geopolitical uncertainty, the Impressionist and Modern market saw a comeback in c...
Why Jasper Johns Is an Icon of 20th-Century Painting
Artsy - This past fall, the 87-year-old American artist Jasper Johns revealed plans to turn his 170-acre retreat in rural Sharon, Connecticut, into an artists’ residence upon his death. Recognized as one of Am...
FAREWELL OUR GLOBALISM
Art in America - First the good news. “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” now appearing at the Guggenheim Museum in New York through January 7, samples China’s most fertile and challenging post-Ma...
Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power: She Uses It for Change
NY Times - BERLIN — Blurry selfies, pixelated screen shots, Photoshop disasters: Low-quality, mass-reproduced pictures flood our screens every day. They are easy to dismiss, but the German artist Hito Steyerl m...
Why the Getty Center’s Art Stayed Put as Fires Raged Nearby
The New York Times - Visitors come to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to see Vincent van Gogh’s irises and other great works. What they don’t see is the reason that these masterpieces could stay put while thous...
Hudson Yards centerpiece “Vessel” tops out
The Architects Newspaper - The 150-foot tall, bronzed-steel and concrete Vessel is designed to react to its surroundings in both material and function. Containing over 2,400 steps, 80 landings and 154 flights o...