VISUAL

Yes, the Greek capital's grotty old seaport, which has been busy, industrial and unpleasant for 2,500 years, is seeing serious art galleries, and the high-end restaurants that service gallery patrons, bustin' out all over. - T — The New York Times Style Magazine

"The Peruvian government has inaugurated the Museo Nacional del Perú, a $125m museum that was initiated by the ministry of culture to preserve the country's heritage and now boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 pre-Columbian objects" — including some looted items now repatriated. - The Art Newspaper

Authorities are planning to set aside two spaces at Seoul-Incheon, one in each terminal, as a satellite location for one or two major museums. Among those reportedly under consideration are the Tate Modern and the Pompidou Center. - The Korea Herald

At the Arc de Triomphe, "most in the crowd of onlookers just held their breath. It was a slow and meticulous operation, requiring to stop make adjustments to the folds in the material every few metres while avoiding touching the arch itself." - The Guardian (UK)

When a retired nurse saw that hundreds of vaccine vials were empty and going in the trash, she set about creating something from them instead. - NPR

The new PR line is that "the long-awaited cathedral of movies is landing at just the right time — perhaps when the film industry needs it most." - Los Angeles Times

A new show puts it all in context - and explains why Matisse suddenly decided, when the painting was finished, to make it red. - The New York Times

After decades forgotten and unclaimed in a boatyard, then carefully restored, Richard Groom's Floating Head is back. - The Guardian (UK)

Rowan Moore: "Japanese-American Yamasaki was dismissed by his contemporaries for being 'dainty', 'prissy', 'epicene', 'ballet school', for example, on account of the slender gothic-looking arcades that ran around the bases of the towers." - The Guardian (UK)

Dream it and you can do it, or at least you can pretend to lift your own Oscar at the long-awaited museum. - Los Angeles Times

The artist is well known in many circles - after all, "for more than five decades, McCannon has been making work rooted in who she is: an African American woman and third-generation Harlemite." - The New York Times

"Five people have been charged with criminal conspiracy to authenticate and circulate fake works of art and fraud and money laundering." - The Guardian (UK)(AFP)

Just eight days after the Museum of Contemporary Art said Klaus Biesenbach would run the Los Angeles institution with a newly named co-leader, Biesenbach was announced Friday as the new director of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. - Los Angeles Times

"A clutch of new terminals and recent upgrades to existing concourses from New York City to San Francisco demonstrate ways both small and large — from muting the televisions to installing indoor gardens — that airports are trying to ease psychic turbulence on the ground." - The New York Times

It's been 18 years since the project was first proposed, and there have been messy conflicts over costs and content (notably over the inclusion of dissident artist Ai Weiwei), but the official opening date is set: November 12. - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)