Archive for December 2018
Protesters call to ‘decolonize’ the Whitney starting with museum board vice chairman
Around noon on December 9th, the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art filled with around 250 protesters chanting ‘decolonise this museum!’ The protest comes as a response to […]
Seeing double: nearly identical Van Dyck paintings and a pair of Rembrandt’s finger prints
Sotheby’s and Christie’s each started December off with a painting by Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) hitting the auction block on consecutive nights. The Flemish painter is one of the most […]
Ontario gallery uses crowdfunding to fund new acquisition
In a December 4th press release the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto cheerfully announced that their crowdfunding effort to acquire Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room – Let’s Survive […]
‘The Condition of Being Here’: a retrospective of Jasper Johns drawings
The Menil Drawing Institute in Houston has recently opened an exhibition of drawings by American artist Jasper Johns celebrating both his dedication as a draftsman and a forthcoming catalogue of […]
Lothar Baumgarten (1944-2018)
The German conceptual artist Lothar Baumgarten has passed away in Berlin at the age of 74. The artist’s death was confirmed by his gallery, Marian Goodman, which issued this statement: […]
Roberto Longhi: the eye and the verb
What a lucky group of Roman schoolboys there must have been at the start of the 20th century! They were the ones that the lectures currently compiled under the title […]
Charbon : the night that burns
Charbon, which translates into English as coal is, above all, a beautiful thing, a beautiful black thing that shines and burns like the material that bears its name. Charbon is […]
