Category: visual

Or maybe … exhibition catalogues are created for whom, exactly? “Most catalogues, however, no matter how good they may be, are fairly formulaic: introduction, essays, works shown, works described — that sort of thing. But some are not.” – Hyperallergic

Art lovers will drive into the 4,000 square foot downtown industrial space and will stay inside their vehicles. It’s quite a change from the original concept, which permitted 700 people to walk inside the space at a time. – CBC

In D.C., you see, it is legal to possess marijuana but not to sell it; there is, however, no law against giving it away. So the enterprising proprietors of District Derp gallery got the idea to sell paintings by Sudo — their four-year-old mini-husky, who’s been trained to paint with a specially constructed brush — and offer purchasers, as a bonus gift, an amount of cannabis equal in value to the price of the artwork. – Business Insider

“In California, all construction — including museum expansions — has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and other museums are prompting both questions and criticisms.” – Hyperallergic

A sense of precariousness is not unfamiliar to museum workers who were already living through austerity, Brexit, and the deregulation of the workforce. But long before this current health crisis, the skepticism about whether commercially-driven blockbuster exhibitions could ever plug the widening gaps in public funding for museums was already part of a much bigger existential question: Is the dominant model for 21st-century museums sustainable? – Artnet

Two concrete murals, designed by Picasso and sandblasted onto the walls by a Norwegian colleague, are part of a government building that was damaged by Anders Breivik‘s car bomb in 2011. For several years there’s been controversy over the government’s plan to demolish that building and relocate the murals — a controversy that two of the Museum of Modern Art’s chief curators have now stepped into. – The Art Newspaper

As if the cost overruns, scheduling snafus and controversy over its holdings weren’t enough (not to mention last month’s tar fire), the opening of the city’s $700 million ethnographic museum has now been put off from September to an undetermined date because the coronavirus epidemic has stopped foreign construction workers from returning to finish the building. (The restaurant and gift shop might open sometime this year, though.) – Artnet

“The story of how the image of Buddha finally broke forth into the world after 600 years of symbolism is one of the most intriguing in the history of art — one that is inextricably tied up with the advent of a new dynasty in India that, unconstrained by the conventions of the past, was able to set the image of the Buddha free into the world of men.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine

“The specialist Court of Arbitration for Art … [was created in 2019] to adjudicate art world matters ranging from chain of title, authenticity and copyright fair use. Last year, the panel appointed around 30 specialists, with arbitrator experience, but this latest round of [170] appointments is more focused (although not exclusively) on qualified art lawyers.” – The Art Newspaper