North Korean art goes on show at the United Nations—in defiance of Kim Jong-un
An exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York includes works by four North Korean artists who are participating anonymously for fear of reprisal. Ambassadors entering the building will see the works on display in the Delegates entrance as part of a 50-strong show called the International Youth Exhibition (until 11 August). The exhibition is organised by the Beijing-based non-profit
What the V&A’s director actually said about digitisation
Tristram Hunt, the new director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, recently appeared to take an unlikely stand against the digitisation of museum collections. Museums are rethinking the rush to digitise their collections amid concerns that such projects are costly and of little value, wrote the Times newspaper, in a report on Hunts comments at the Hay Festival in Wales. Some may ha
Bern museum to open Harald Szeemann archive during next year's Art Basel
The archive of the late Swiss curator Harald Szeemann, one of the most influential curators of the post-war era, is due to go on show at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in February. The exhibition, Harald Szeemann: the Museum of Obsessions, will then travel to the Kunsthalle Bern to coincide with Art Basel in 2018. After that, it is expected to tour to venues in Germany and Italy. The
V&A reveals plans for photography centre
Londons Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has released the first rendering of its future photography centre, which is planned to open in autumn 2018. David Kohn Architects are converting four 19th-century picture galleries into a versatile, climate-controlled space for the museums expanded photography holdings, displaying original photographs, equipment and archival materials ranging from the 1820s
How Matisse helped Diebenkorn calm his ‘rage at human nature’
Anyone passingly familiar with the art of Richard Diebenkorn knows of his acknowledged debt to Henri Matisse. The exhibition Matisse/Diebenkorn at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) tallies that debt as no other curatorial project has before, thematically grouping 100 paintings (40 by Matisse, 60 by Diebenkorn) and a few drawings by the two, who never met. Despite the bounty of exemp
Vito Acconci, Body Art trailblazer, poet and architect, has died, aged 77
The US artist and architect Vito Acconci, known for his radical conceptual works such as Seedbed (1972), has died age 77. The Bronx-born artist turned poet and architect, who is considered a Body Art trailblazer, arguably paved the way for a later generation of artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Matthew Barney and Paul McCarthy. Acconci received his BA with a major in literature from Holy Cross
The persistent disbeliever: on Donald Judd's writings
Has there been a more rigorous sceptic than Donald Judd? Set aside, for a moment, the philosophers who only think about the world, and picture Judd in Long Island City at the Bernstein Brothers metal shop in 1970 telling labourers how to make his work. Picture him at home in Manhattan at 101 Spring Street, the building he bought in 1968 as a studio, home and space "in which to install work of mine
Magritte painting breaks record at Christie’s Surrealist sale
The mood was high at Christies last night after the total haul for the evenings Impressionist & Modern and Surreal auctions136.9m with fees and a high combined sell through rate of 92%showed a 45% increase on results this time last year. Jay Vincze, the head of Impressionist and Modern art for Christies London, called this incredibly reassuring for the market, which was further bolstered by the co
Battle over Kiefer’s Beijing show escalates as curator rejects dealers’ objections
The organisers of the controversial Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM) in Beijing are fighting back against the Western dealers who represent the artist and who opposed the project. Anselm Kiefer: Coagulation, was held at CAFAM between 19 November 2016 and 8 January 2017, the first stop of a planned four-city tour. However, the artist protested that it was
Alphonse Mucha's grandson sues Prague to stop Asian tour of Slav Epic
A major legal battle looms over Alphonse Muchas monumental Slav Epic. The gigantic canvas cycle, which took the Czech-born Art Nouveau pioneer 18 years to complete, is due to go on a controversial tour to Asia, which has alarmed Muchas descendants and some conservators. The Slav Epic depicts key events in the history of the Slavic people through 20 large paintingssome more than eight-metres tall.
50th anniversary of the Florence Flood: Memories from a drowned world
Asking a veteran conservator or museum professional where they were when the Arno River burst its banks 50 years ago this month, submerging the historic centre of Florence under 18 billion gallons of filthy water, is akin to asking someone what they were doing when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The flood was a pivotal moment in the history of conservation in terms of the development of new me
New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos
The Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris hosted the conference ©Iwan Baan/Fondation Louis Vuitton/Gehry Partners Charles Jencks revisits his article written for The Art Newspaper in 2000 to survey how museum architecture has evolved since the millennium. Then, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao ushered in an era of spectacular buildings designed for mega-collections. As the Louis Vu
Vandalism of Dirty Corner sculpture at Versailles an ‘inside job’, claims Kapoor
The British artist Anish Kapoor has described the repeated vandalising of his monumental sculpture Dirty Corner when it was exhibited last summer in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles as an inside job. The trumpet-shaped steel work was installed outside the French royal palace in June 2015. It caused controversy after it was nicknamed the queens vagina, reportedly by the artist, although he
Berlin’s museums use culture as a means of integration for refugees
Museums in Berlin are helping to welcome refugees to the city and its culture with the programme Multaka from the Arabic word for forum or meeting placein which trained refugees from Syria and Iraq give free guided museum tours in Arabic to other displaced groups. The programme, started by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums), offers visits twice a week in four museums: the Museu
After Caravaggio: Michael Fried on the painter's enormous influence
The art historian Michael Fried's new book, After Caravaggio , which has just been published by Yale University Press, looks at the painter's followers and the long shadow he cast over the 17th century. It follows Fried's 2010 publication The Moment of Caravaggio , where he focused on how the Italian Baroque artist propelled the emergence of the "gallery picture" as a distinct genre that moved aw
Asian collectors unveil plans to build major museums
Haryanto Adikoesoemo. Photo: Yuwono Widiasta Two museums planned for South and Southeast Asia are set to redraw the art-world map and boost the cultural infrastructure of both Bangladesh and Indonesia, according to the patrons behind the large-scale Modern and contemporary art institutions. An ambitious 43,000-sq.-ft museum funded entirely by the Indonesian businessman Haryanto Adikoesoemo will
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