Instead of designing buildings for specific purposes that may fade or disappear, architects and developers should create buildings that can accommodate a variety of uses, from offices to residential spaces to hotels to healthcare facilities. Towers should be designed to be neutral. - Fast Company
"After a four-year, multimillion-dollar undertaking involving mechanical engineers, architects, art historians, fresco experts, art handlers and riggers from the United States and Mexico, the 30-ton, 74-foot-wide-by-22-foot mural" — titled Pan-American Unity, painted in 1940 and installed at City College of San Francisco in 1961 — "has been carefully extracted and moved across town to San Francisco Museum of Modern...
Part of the problem with NFTs is that there is not yet any shared culture around reproductions or derivative works of short video, animations, or audio-visual works that derive their primary profit potential from NFT sales. - Slate
The aim is to saunter between a woman’s spread legs, look up her billowing dress and snicker at her panty-clad crotch — or, better yet, snap a photo for posting on social media. With Marilyn Monroe as its doleful model, this adolescent sculptural trash is presented as a welcome draw for desert resort tourism, battered during the COVID-19 pandemic....
"Free space and funding, mostly (and that 15-minute PATH ride to Manhattan). In fact, the museum agreed to the four-story warehouse space sight unseen after a French cultural attaché visited the site once to seal the deal." - Curbed
"The European Union's intellectual property office just reinforced last month's invalidation of a trademark owned by the British street artist Banksy. The latest rulings issued from the office's 'cancellation department' this morning relate to two of the anonymous artist's most famous images, Radar Rat and Girl with an Umbrella. The judgment was made in favor of Full Colour Black,...
Of the 218 skyscrapers constructed on the continent to date, 66% of them are located in just five cities – London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow and Istanbul. - B1M
The artist proceeded to rank the women “from the prettiest to the ugliest,” stringing together around 5,000 grainy clips into a nearly eight-hour-long video with numbers at the bottom of each image to indicate the woman’s ranking. - The New York Times
We want to mark important events and people. But which ones? And who should decide? And are we creating an unreconcileable hierarchy of what's important (and what's not). - Aisle Say
They have realized how useful art has become as a tool for money launderers, and are considering boosting oversight of the market and making it more transparent. - The New York Times
Part of the recent surge comes down to Brexit jitters. Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, industry players speculated that Paris would benefit where London lost. - ARTnews
"Initially slated to debut in 2020, the museum in Oslo — officially called the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design — will now open on June 11, 2022. The , which has been in the works for seven years, brings the collections of three of Norway's most important art institutions — the former Kunstindustrimuseet, the Museum of Contemporary...
"We have art for the eyes and music for the ears, but what about about creative stimuli for our sense of smell? A new show at Phillips auction house in Paris is addressing this question through a new show of olfactory sculptures by six artists, including Joana Vasconcelos and Adel Abdessemed, which incorporate uniquely created fragrances by perfumers." -...
“The way the galleries are organised now is a greatest-hits presentation very much focused on masterworks” by white artists from the 1600s to 2000s. “It’s very traditional and focused on a march through history that is ahistorical.” - The Art Newspaper
