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Report: Art Collectors Are Changing Their Buying Habits

What comes through overall is a sense that collectors’ behaviors are are starting to shift, and not just in relation to the current market climate. - Artnet

The Biggest Problem With Le Corbusier

"Le Corbusier’s dream was of vast blocks of buildings as 'machines for living.' His bare modernism took hold of architecture schools and town-planning departments” - and his acolytes nearly destroyed most of the cities in the UK. - The Guardian (UK)

Goodbye To Society, And Hello To Democracy

That’s the idea at the (former) New York Historical Society, now just New York Historical. The museum’s chief content officer knows the name isn’t perfectly grammatical, but he "likened it to the former Apple marketing campaign, 'Think different.’” - The New York Times

The Goth Phase Of Vincent Van Gogh

Curators figured out that "Gothic architecture and medieval painting influenced modern art, and began to conjecture which works, shown together, would best exemplify this trend’ - including a Van Gogh of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. - The New York Times

A German Artists’ Group Is Demanding A Prize-Winning Artist Apologize

The Iranian-German photographer called Israel a “Zionist apartheid state” and said “Free Palestine” in her minute-long award acceptance speech. - Hyperallergic

When A Museum Is Closed For Years, How Does It Keep Up Engagement And Public Interest?

Digital programming, online classes, offline pop-ups, and construction tours keep museums that are undergoing renovations in the eyes, and lives, of the easily distracted public. - The New York Times

Why Have A Poster On Your Dorm Wall When You Can Just Hang A Picasso?

At the University of Chicago, “students have about one week to peruse the collection and identify their favorites among the color lithographs by luminaries such as Joan Miró, Marc Chagall and Yves Tanguy, iconic prints by Gordon Parks and Jenny Holzer, and even a couple of Picassos.” - NPR

We Finally Have An Opening Date For LACMA

That’s April, 2026. “LACMA has likened Zumthor‘s design to a kind of living organism. Indeed, the raw concrete is already showing signs of weathering, with water stains and other irregularities.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Why Is The Art World Focusing On Photography Just As AI Images Are Becoming Harder To Detect?

Many of the largest and most powerful art dealers are dedicating significant attention and real estate to photography. It is part of a broader renaissance for the medium that is arriving, perhaps counterintuitively, just as images produced by artificial intelligence become virtually indistinguishable from real documentation. - The New York Times

Warsaw’s New Museum Of Modern Art Tries To Transcend Poland’s Communist Legacy

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw sits like a bright white box on a major city street. Inside, a monumental staircase with geometric lines rises to upper floors, where large windows flood the gallery rooms with light. - AP

Stepping Inside A Painting (And Into History)

The Night Revels blasts through that flimsy structure of history to show us a work of detailed authentication that is nearly 1200 years old. This painting may be the first documentary in history: We know who these people are; we know their names, their professions and their relation to each other. - Brooks Riley

That Banana-Duct-Taped-To-The-Wall Artwork Seems To Have Been A Very Good Investment

One of three "editions" of the piece, titled Comedian, by prankster conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan (he of the gold toilet titled America) sold five years ago for $120,000. The Sotheby's estimate for the work's upcoming resale is about ten times that. - CNN

San Diego Museum of Art Reveals Initial Design For Redesigned West Wing

"The proposed design is likely to please critics who feared the renowned English firm (Foster + Partners) would build a glass dome, high-rise tower or modern-looking structure that would be out of sync with (Balboa) Park’s historic Spanish Colonial Revival style." - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)

A Simple Old Computer Program And Its Invitation To Be Creative

Art made on Paint is often amateurish, but amateurish in a way that celebrates human flaw. Struggling to make something out of nothing — to pull an image from the mind, to represent it externally in a way that is even halfway decent — is as quintessentially human as speaking a language. - The New York Times

The 20 Best Art Museums In The U.S. (Per The Washington Post)

Yes, the Met tops the list (by Post art critics Philip Kennicott and Sebastian Smee), and museum aficionados will have heard of the others, but the order of the rankings may surprise you. - The Washington Post (MSN)

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