Category: visual

So it’s cleaning up its monuments and buildings and finding some surprises underneath. ARTnewspaper.com

Haida artist Bill Reid was a Canadian national hero, revered for championing a dying art form. But this article, a year after he died, claims the artist relied so heavily on assistants that much of his work wasn’t his own. Maclean’s Magazine (Canada)
     ALSO: Art community defends Reid CBC 10/14/99
     AND: Irresponsible article seems more at home “in the art-ignorant” National Inquirer.” Toronto Globe and Mail 10/15/99

– and a sundial all rolled up into one: Baltimore’s proposed public sculpture to mark the millennium rips off the hits. Baltimore Sun

Barbara Kruger has her first major retrospective at the LA County Museum of Art. I’m accessible but cool, she says. LA Times

A Dutch town decides to commemorate the millennium by building a tower. Not just any tower, though. London Telegraph

– can’t sue New York art dealer for selling Matisse painting stolen by Nazis. Ruling could have implications for other museums. Seattle Post-Intelligencer

By the time he died in 1929, French industrialist Auguste Pellerin had collected one-sixth of the artist’s total output. This winter Pellerin’s heirs are selling off ten paintings as well as a Rodin and a Manet. New York Times

– for the Corcoran. Washington Post

The Young British Artists have been going for the jugular for years. Every movement needs a history. New York Times

LA’s Norton Simon Museum gets  a $6.5 million inside redo by the architect of the day.  LA Weekly