Category: visual

– to resume funding of Brooklyn Museum in ruling delivered Monday morning.  CBC

– announces plans to open a branch in London. Here’s how the collaboration happened.  London Telegraph
     AND: New York Times account. 

Controversial show Brooklyn Museum show was largely financed by those who stood to gain from promoting artists in the show.  New York Times

The artist critics loved to disparage is getting a new tour through some blue-chip museums. Rockwell in the Guggenheim? Crazy! Christian Science Monitor
     AND: Debut in Atlanta. Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/1/99

Installation artists from around the world converge on downtown Pittsburgh for the Carnegie International.  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
     AND: Some historical perspective Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/31/99

Chicago’s outdoor art cows have attracted more attention to the city’s downtown than the 1996 Democratic National Convention, and pumped $200 million into the economy. Atlanta Journal Constitution

For the past six months Greg Zanis has traveled around the country in his truck making crosses wherever he goes – so far 3,400 of them.  Washington Post

An artist puts up a show consisting of 25 decorated decomposing rabbits hanging from trees. The city has a lively debate about the work and then it’s vandalized in the middle of the night. Now the curator of the rabbit show talks about art that seeks to confront.  CBC

A conversation about the art of cities with Richard Rogers, architect of the Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd’s building. Feed

Regional museums in France and America join forces to raise their profiles and “prove cultural life lives outside the big cities.” New York Times