Museums
For almost forty years, Martha Rosler has been hosting garage sales of the standard American variety wherein visitors may browse through random assortments of used goods, from books and dishes to lingerie and porn, in the hopes of scoring something...
The Louvre has recently launched a major fundraising appeal to acquire two 13th-century ivory statuettes, which would complete a permanent part of its collection. Its “Tous Mécènes!” or “Everyone a Patron!” project invites the public to donate funds to...
The following open letter by art critic Sholem Krishtalka was published by ARTINFO Canada on Novemer 13. Dear letter-writers to the Art Gallery of Ontario,My Facebook feed has lately been playing host to an increased number of your open letters....
NEW YORK — Two Metropolitan Museum of Art members filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court yesterday alleging that the historically free, public institution has been deceiving visitors into paying entry fees.A (recently raised) fee of $25 is the...
WHAT: “Activist New York”WHEN: OngoingWHERE: Puffin Foundation Gallery, Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: New York City has been an epicenter for cultural movements and change in America...
PARIS — Through January 6, 2013, Paris’s Louis Vuitton Foundation offers a tour through the complex and often polarized terrain of today's Turkish art scene with “Journeys: Wanderings Through Contemporary Turkey.” Works by 11 Turkish artists are on...
In the weeks following her death in May 2011, it looked as though the reclusive 104-year-old Huguette Clark was poised to reshape Santa Barbara with her art legacy. Much to the community’s delight, her lawyers announced that Bellosguardo, Clark...
Let’s get this straight: Fluxus is not an artistic movement, or a school. It’s a state of mind and an art of living that “makes life more interesting than art,” to quote Robert Filliou’s famous description. “Fiat Flux: La Nébuleuse Fluxus, 1962-1978,” which...
No, there aren’t any Kangaroos in the background, and good old Mona isn’t flanked by gum trees. In fact, the Australian copy of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which is about to go on display at the National Library of Australia in Canberra, is...
“Politicians nominating technocrats nominating politicans,” senator Francesco Storace indignantly tweeted on Tuesday, shortly after hearing that Giovanna Melandri, a current member of the Italian parliament with a long list of accomplishments...
