Jean-Michel Basquiat was part of a constellation of young graffiti artists who used New York City’s streets and subways as their canvases before going on to take both the art world and hip-hop culture by storm. - The New York Times
A jury made up of museum professionals selected Kasia Redzisz, a senior curator at Tate Liverpool, to be artistic director of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, the museum's outpost in the Belgian capital. But the museum's board partly overruled the jury's decision, appointing as co-director Bernard Blistène, the jury's runner-up and director of the Pompidou's Paris flagship until the end of this...
"Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for colour science – I examined 139,892 works of art, searching for violet." - Psyche
You don’t look at a Cézanne, some ravishing late works excepted. You study it, registering how it’s done—in the drawings, with tangles of line and, often, patches of watercolor. - The New Yorker
A 64-year-old man spotted the artworks — a 1665 self-portrait by Pietro Bellotti and a painting of a youth by the 17th-century Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten — in the garbage of a rest stop in Bavaria in mid-May. Authorities have not identified the owner of the canvases and have appealed to the public for information. - Artnet
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
