Archives for December 2007

Mark Wallinger, "State Britain," 2006 Photo © Tate 2006 It was brazen enough earlier this year when the Tate Gallery mounted Mark Wallinger's antiwar State Britain exhibition (taking a strong stance against British policy in Iraq) along the full length of its stately Duveen Galleries (above). To see more on that show, go here. Now the government-subsidized museum has taken its … [Read more...] about Political Statement: Mark Wallinger Wins the Turner Prize UPDATED

This just in: The Virginia Supreme Court today effectively extended from today to Feb. 15 the deadline by which opponents to sales of art from Randolph College's Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA, must raise $1 million to secure the temporary injunction that the court had previously granted against sales. The court ruled that it would be sufficient for sale opponents to file a surety … [Read more...] about News Flash: Maier Art Sale Opponents Win Another Court Victory UPDATED

(My previous posts on the new New Museum are here, here and here.) I'm not bothered as much as critic James Russell is that the interior architecture of the New Museum "almost vanishes entirely" (as he states in his Bloomberg review). I think there's something appropriate about a stark industrial loft aesthetic for just-created art. But I do agree with him that the unlovely … [Read more...] about The New Museum’s Architectural Rough Spots