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)
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
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)
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)
Christopher Knight: "Although the department store would not have made good art museum exhibition space, it is now very easy to see how well it would work for virtually every other art museum function." - Los Angeles Times
Some museums, like the Whitney, learned the hard way (during construction, Superstorm Sandy dumped six million gallons of water into the basement); others (like the Pérez in Miami, right alongside Biscayne Bay) see the danger and build in flood defenses. - Artnet