Category: visual

The earthquake in Assisi shattered Giotto and Cimabue frescoes. Computer programmers wrote a program that scans all the fragments and matches the hundreds of thousands of pieces to reassemble them. Wired

– his apartment in Amsterdam has now been faithfully recreated down to some interesting details. London Times

Washington’s Hirschhorn Museum turns 25. This excellent profile reveals how museum director Jim Demetrion has deftly steered his museum of contemporary art through the politics of Washington and the art world. Washington Post

IF you care about architecture at all, then book your flight to Turin today says a London Telegraph critic. Only three weeks left before what is perhaps the “most staggering architectural exhibition ever mounted” closes, on November 7. PS: a stripped down version travels to Montreal and Washington DC (but it won’t be the same). London Telegraph

– faces the wrecking ball. Preservationists are trying to save the thespian family’s decaying Tudor mansion in Baltimore suburbs from being torn down. Chicago Tribune

Australian artists need to engage with the political process or be marginalized, writes a critic. Sydney Morning Herald

What if the word had never existed? The myths of rebirth in British art. London Sunday Times

Art Critics in Los Angeles get into a feud between conceptual-irony and anti-irony camps in the L.A. art world. Artnet.com

The new American embassy in Ottawa looks like a battleship. Or a fortress. President Clinton dedicates it today. CBC

– with the chestnutian and the unfamiliar. An impressionistic view back with hints of the future. New York Times