Category: visual

Idealism and reality blur in contemporary explorations of the unclothed body. Artnet.com

Carnegie International celebrates 20 years of architecture’s Nobel.  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

US entrepreneur donates bronze “Da Vinci” horse to Milan. City relegates it to obscure location at race track. The reasons are not so obscure.  New York Times

New York City attorneys say they’ll closely examine Brooklyn Museum’s funding arrangements with sponsors of controversial “Sensations” show. Meanwhile, more support for museum from city arts institutions.  New York Times

The stock market’s booming, the economy’s good. Discretionary art sellers wonder if now’s a good time to sell. Next week some $4 million-worth of art goes up for sale in New York’s fall art auctions. Observers ponder return of ’80s art boom.  New York Times

– and “pretentious” art reviews in the newspaper. “Just because we disagree, doesn’t mean we’re Velvet Elvis lovers.”  San Francisco Chronicle

Judge’s ruling in favor of museum Monday wasn’t a surprise, but museums gave a sigh of relief anyway. Museum went too far with private collectors, but that’s just the way things are.  New York Times
     AND: New York mayor attacks judge on ruling NYT 11/3/99

“There is no federal constitutional issue more grave than the effort by government officials to censor works of expression and to threaten the vitality of a major cultural institution as punishment for failing to abide by governmental demands for orthodoxy.” Giuliani calls decision “knee-jerk.” New York Times
     AND: Toronto Globe and Mail story, Washington Post story 11/2/99 

– measuring 500 square meters is discovered in a church near Rome’s Coliseum.  ARTnewspaper.com