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Archive for January 2010
washed-up artist finds new medium: walls
Some art galleries are better designed than others. Indeed some are so well designed, they’re more appealing than the art presented inside. Take the London’s Saatchi Gallery. When it first opened, I wasn’t impressed much with the random pieces that Charles Saatchi called art, but the building’s flooring was visually and vastly impressive. In fact,… (read more)
a home for your gold
The City of Birmingham is going through a collective treasure hunt for money at the moment, to acquire, or keep, recently found artifacts in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. On a Staffordshire farmer’s land, a seventh century, Anglo-Saxon gold hoard was found via the usual suspect: anorak wanderer armed with metal detector: a minimalist… (read more)
mickey mouse art
“A Brief History of Curating” is a title recently published in 2008 containing interviews with about a dozen so-called legendary 20th century curators. Strangely, all were born between 1919 and 1943, making them 65 to 89 years old at time of publishing. If they’re still alive. The interviewing happened between 1996 and 2008, but the… (read more)