As part of their gift, the Shirleys will give SAM 48 works by Calder, spanning the artist’s career, with mobiles at various sizes from the large-scale to the intimately small, as well as works on paper. (The approximate value of the 48-work donation is $200 million.) - ARTnews
There were stretches when I made so little money writing or editing that I couldn’t blame my parents for assuming they were hobbies. They used to wonder how I could spend weeks revising work I had already done, months on an idea or project that might never sell. - Esquire
"How about this woman we create isn't me, but she had that same stuff happen to her in the past and she took a different path to me as an adult, so we get to do whatever we want." - The Guardian
The $25 million sculpture dates to 225 C.E., and is believed to have been looted in the 1960s from a shine at Bubon, an archaeological site in southwest Turkey. It had been on loan from a collection in Switzerland since 2011. - Artnet
Hirst did the originals, back in the 1990s, by dripping paint onto a rotating canvas. Now he and his partners have set up an AI generator with which you can designate colors and spin styles — and then get the resulting work as either a hard copy or an NFT. - Artnet
It's not just a matter of coming off a proscenium or thrust stage: everything from audience expectations and behavior to documentation practices is different in a setting that's normally devoted to visual art. - ArtsHub (Australia)
Though there are many theories about the place of imagination in cognitive architecture, two are worth mentioning here, not least because all others can be traced to them. - Psyche
"Trove, the expansive archival database that holds billions of images, newspapers, documents, manuscripts and myriad other resources that are freely accessible to the public, was under threat, with its funding under the previous government scheduled to end on 30 June." - The Guardian
Feldman’s mission is to remind local audiences what they’ve been missing. He wants theatergoers to demand more from the menu than a selection of reheated Broadway dishes. Only this way can an artist of Sondheim’s caliber rise again. - Los Angeles Times
It's not just books, movies, SNL sketches and New Yorker cartoons about to the investigation and resulting scandal. There are at least five bands named after the Panama Papers, as well as one prize-winning race horse and rolling papers from two different companies. - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
"Michael Nyman had a lot to do with it, and he was probably thinking of minimalist art like Frank Stella. ... What disturbs me is when I hear younger students talking about minimalism (as a homogenous entity). I tell them, 'Go home and wash your mouth out!'" - San Francisco Classical Voice
"In the third decade of the 21st century, no country on Earth has reinvented the language of the symphony orchestra on such distinctive and locally relevant terms as Iceland has. Perhaps we have the country's sluggish cultural development to thank for that." - The Guardian
Titled New York, New York — yes, after what he calls "that song," which he and Fred Ebb wrote but he's never liked — it differs substantially from the Scorsese-De Niro-Minnelli movie and has plenty of new material, including half a dozen songs with lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. - The New York Times
"Arie Wallert, a former Rijksmuseum scientific specialist, … is convinced that there are two versions of the young woman playing a guitar: the long-accepted painting at Kenwood House, in north London, and a very similar composition that has been in the Philadelphia museum's stores for nearly a century." - The Art Newspaper
