Category: visual

Reforms in public art since “Tilted Arc” have improved process, blandized art.  The Nation

A trap for the imagination – remembering installation art.  New York Times

Shocking developments at the Museum of Modern Art – a new way at looking at art of (nearly) our time.  Dallas Morning News

Legendary dealer Max Protech reflects on a career of representing architects. “I cannot imagine being interested in art and not interested in architecture, and vice versa,” he says.  Architecture Magazine

For the first time, the Whitney Museum plans to include digital artists in its Biennial, scheduled for next year.  New York Times

They were getting the packing crates ready to ship £15 million Boticelli from the UK to Fort Worth’s Kimbell Museum. At the last minute the director of the Scottish National Gallery managed to put the money together and… The Guardian

Italy is cleaning up its architecture and monuments for the millennium. Too bad someone can’t stop the cars and industrial pollution that got them dirty in the first place.  ARTnewspaper.com

Norman Rockwell is hot again. New show tours blue-chip museums. And now a generous TV documentary reappraisal of Rockwell’s stature — Abstract Expressionism be damned.  San Francisco Chronicle

• And: Bad taste returns. Artnet.com 11/22/99

But how can you tell if it’s a fake?  Wired

At Toronto auction last week, the Emily Carrs went flying out the door. The more abstract contemporary work failed to sell. “The value of good art is supposed to soar as time goes by, but with work by a contemporary Canadian artist, it’s more like buying a car: You’re likely to lose as soon as you take it home.”  Toronto Globe and Mail