Category: visual

– originally created to celebrate the best of British art, abandoned traditional painting and sculpture in favor of installation art? Financial Times
     ALSO: “TWO NAKED MEN JUMP INTO TRACY’S BED”: Two art students did exactly that Sunday at the controversial Turner Prize exhibit at the London’s Tate Gallery. They called their actions art – “We wanted to push her work to further limits, make it more sensational, interesting and significant.” they say.One of them tried to scare the guards by pretending to be a kung fu artist. BBC 10/26/99
     PREVIOUSLY: PROTEST: The Turner Prize gallery in London’s Tate Gallery was shut for the day Sunday after two men staged a pillow fight in the Turner Prize exhibition. They jumped onto a bed which was part of a controversial exhibition by young British artist Tracey Emin. BBC 10/24/99

Sorting out the values of art in a time when controversy draws more attention than beauty.  Chicago Tribune

Legendary arts educator Philip Yenawine says the professional art world has failed the public and themselves. Brooklyn brawl is all too sadly familiar.  Salon

Can’t do it? That’s why Canada needs an award like Britain’s Turner Prize to create some buzz.  Toronto Globe and Mail

London’s Tate Gallery was shut for the day Sunday after two men staged a pillow fight in the Turner Prize exhibition. They jumped onto a bed which was part of a controversial exhibition by young British artist Tracey Emin. BBC

John Fry was Britain’s most influential critic of the 20th Century. He invented modernism for the British public and championed the post-Impressionists – but his aesthetic is totally out of step with contemporary notions of aesthetic taste in the UK.  London Sunday Times

Rarely has an art show had so many reluctant champions.  New York Times

A proposed $3.6 billion mega-project in downtown LA seeks to give the city a statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Disney Land all in one. What an ill-conceived project, cry the critics.  Los Angeles Times

– in L.A. will be topped with statue of a female angel twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Planned as the centerpiece to an 88-acre theme park, the privately funded City of Angels Monument is being billed as a memorial honoring the arts and entertainment. What it really is, writes critic Christopher Knight, is junk. Los Angeles Times

Fort Worth’s Kimbell Museum has an agreement to buy a Boticelli for $24 million. Now the problem is getting an export license to get it out of England.  New York Times