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Supporting the National Endowment for the Arts
I completely agree with this text wrote by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, USA), and published in The New York Times on February, 22: “Four years ago, in a small warehouse in central China, a team of Chinese archaeologists […]
US, Russia, Trump and Museums
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, is optimistic that museum loans between Russia and the US can begin again soon. Piotrovsky spoke to The Art Newspaper (January 2017) as the US Senate voted to pass new legislation that will protect works of art on […]
Duchamp, Judd, Hockney, Warhol? Mary Heilmann!
Mary Heilmann is remembering the day David Hockney came to teach a class at her college. “He was only a few years older than we were. He came in with his chartreuse suit, white-blond hair. The painters didn’t really want to take his class because he was so radical. But […]
Art dealer and Criminal complaint
When the veteran art dealer Perry Rubenstein moved his art gallery to Los Angeles from New York four years ago, he boldly declared that Los Angeles had become the country’s most exciting art scene, and he wanted to be part of it. Instead, Mr. Rubenstein’s life quickly collapsed: He was […]
The new San Francisco MoMA: WOU!!
Inside the newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, one of the most startling sights is the absence of works on the towering walls flanking the main zigzagging staircase. When the museum officially reopens on May 14, after a three-year closing, a $305 million addition by the architecture firm […]
Australian Aboriginal Art
When any compelling new way of picturing the world shivers into being, it can’t help but enthral us. Think what it is like to see the early Cubist paintings by Braque and Picasso, or the very first sensationally realist, shadow-filled paintings of Caravaggio. Many may see “Everywhen,” a succinct survey […]
Ruscha, prints and Tate
The celebrated American pop artist Ed Ruscha is donating a collection of prints to Tate in what its director, Nicholas Serota, called “a wonderful Christmas present to the whole nation”. Ruscha will donate 18 recent print editions and has also promised to give one impression of all future prints he […]
A real difficult century
I recently read an article (on The Huffington Post, April, 6, 2015) about the imminent retirement of a local government arts council executive in the United States. The article pointed out the many challenges that this executive faced over the past decade. It made me realize how difficult the 21st […]
Campus museums and art centers in the USA (2)
At Harvard, Mr. Lentz, a scholar of ancient and Islamic art and a longtime museum administrator, arrived in 2003 believing that his biggest job would be to unite three museums: the Fogg (Western art), the Sackler (Asian, Islamic and Indian) and the Busch-Reisinger (German and northern European) on Quincy Street, […]
Campus museums and art centers in the USA (1)
Closed for six years, the Harvard Art Museums reopen after a radical overhaul by the architect Renzo Piano. Galleries wrap the new public space, but so do a materials lab, an art-conservation suite and a study center, where students, faculty and visitors can learn from the collection of 250,000 objects. […]