In the wake of the Brooklyn Museum dustup, it behooves we who write about contemporary art for a living to ask ourselves: What is it that holds contemporary art back from the popularity it so richly deserves? Toronto Globe and Mail
Category: visual
FORGET THOSE SNOOTY GALLERIES
Buying art online is starting to take off. “We’re seeing a lot of new buyers who may be intimidated by the traditional art world environment,” says one online dealer. Wired
RUN BY 17 PEOPLE?
Debate over Turner Prize has some wondering if the group making decisions about British contemporary art is too small. Has this small coterie dictating contemporary taste lost touch? London Sunday Times
FINALISTS for this year’s Turner Prize –
– are announced in London. Winner to be announced November 30. ARTNewspaper.com
FAKE O’KEEFFES
Twenty-eight paintings in a Kansas City Museum may be frauds. CBC
FOURTEEN MODELS/THREE DIFFERENT SCHEMES
And it still wasn’t enough to satisfy them. Architects Herzog & de Meuron of Basel, Switzerland (architects for the new Tate Modern in London), have quit the $60 million University of Texas Blanton Museum of Art project in Austin. Trustees insisted on dictating traditional design. Dallas Morning News
SAY HIGH TO HOUSTON
High Museum director Ned Rifkin will leave Atlanta to direct Houston’s Menil Collection. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“THE WORLD’S BIGGEST GRADUATE STUDENT SHOW”
In “theatricalizing Bruce Nauman’s already devastatingly theatrical take on late 20th century social life” artists in Brooklyn Museum’s “Sensation” show have produced only an unassimilated pastiche. Christopher Knight reviews it. Los Angeles Times
MORE MOVEMENT AT THE MFA
Shakeups continue at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Wednesday, longtime star curator Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. abruptly resigned. “I have now worked long enough in this job, and have experienced enough of the restructured `one museum’ that is the MFA today, that in good faith I cannot continue,” he writes. Boston Globe
“ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FINDS IN YEARS”
Cezanne stolen 21 years ago has been recovered in a police sweep. Prosecution of the thieves is said to be unlikely. The painting will be sold at auction in London – said to be “one of the most important paintings offered in London this decade. It was completed when Cezanne was at the peak of his powers.” BBC